Claude has just banned third-party apps altogether!

  It's the first time in the history of the world.

King Claude is back.

It's just a matter of time.The Anthropic Feast of the King's Burning, ClaudeIt's coming.There's a big explosion!

In a nutshell:Anthropic has thoroughly cleared policy barriers and officially confirmed Claude's subscription limits for third-party apps and agents!

This is a key step for Anthropic in the second half of the big model competition.

Since then, the "double charge" spell between developers and users has been officially broken.

The Age of Agent Ecological Navigation is about to open!

Claude's platform policy has been constantly changing, leaving developers unconcerned.

In the past few months, a worrying interpretation has been circulating in the community:Anthropic may restrict or even block third-party applications from calling the Claude API and Agent SDK.

The reason for this is simple: the fertile water does not flow to the outside world.

If AI factories are also eco-friendly, why would third-party developers make money from their underlying models?

This fear is the sword of Damocles hanging on the developer's head. No one dares to take his own life.

But now, AnthropicIt's been a long time since I've been able to talk about it.

On October 7, Anthropic sneakly updated the official support page for the app, and the third-party app has since been fully released!

The document clearly states，Claude Max and the Team ProjectThe monthly API Credits can be used directly by users of:

Claude Agent SDK

CLaude - p command

Claude API

Claude Managed Agents

All third-party apps using these technologies

As soon as the news came out, the netizens immediately rushed to each other and shared the good news.

From now on, third-party applications using the Claude Agent SDK are allowed to consume subscriptions!

In an effort to eliminate any doubts, several Anthropic officials, even in person in the Hacker News (HN) commentary area, confirmed the policy.

"There are no objections".

"Support for continued use of the technology".

"There is no extra charge".

I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

The policy is clear. The red line is gone. The alert is lifted.

To understand the depth of this rally, it is necessary to understand the past AI ecosystem.

In the era of big models, the business model of application has been a huge pain point, so to speak."The paradox of double taxation"。

As a user, you spend hundreds of dollars a month subscribing to ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro.

When users use your app, the API generates a fee. This is the money that Anthropic will collect from you (developers).

So how do you (developer) survive?

You can only charge users.

Then came a ridiculous scene:The user clearly has purchased Claude's membership, but when using the third-party Claude app, the developer must pay again.

That's double the price.

This led directly to two deadly consequences:

First, users are unwilling to pay.

I've got Claude as a member, why would I pay you?

Second, the developers can't let go.

The API calls were too expensive to run a few complex Agent tasks, and I went bankrupt.

This creates a dead end - a dead end to great ideas. The cost of sinking is too high and the error rate is too low.

The new Anthropic policy, this time in full swing, is being implemented.It's basically established."BYOS" (Bring Your Own Subscription)The pattern.

Have you developed a third-party app?

The user wants to use it?

As long as the user is a member of the Claude Max or Team program, they deduct the computing power they consume in your app directly from their own monthly API allowance!

What does that mean?

For users: One pass card, the whole web is blank.

By purchasing a premium subscription from Claude, you can not only chat on the official website, but also unlock a variety of compelling third-party automation tools, code-complete plugins, and data analytics agents.

Your subscription has truly become "a passport to the AI age".

For developers: zero cost, focus on innovation.

You can boldly design the most sophisticated Agent architecture and invoke the most consuming chain of thought (Chain of Thought).

As long as the user carries a quota, your computing cost is zero. You can put 100% of your energy into product experience and functional innovation.

Claude's programmers can now subscribe to your Claude in a third-party environment.There is no extra charge!

This will not only save money, or completely free up productivity.

Anthropic made this decision and it was never a waste of time.

This is a business conspiracy.

The competition for the big model has entered the second half.

In the first half, it was all about statistics, it was all about runs, it was all about the "talking" IQ.

In the second half of the game, we're all working together.ActivityYes, it is.Agent: Smart body ecology。

Who can let AI access real business flows, who can let AI automatically write code, send emails, operate software, who can win the future.

In this vertebral column, the path is divided.

Some of the giants have chosen the "closed empire" model.

They're trying to put all the traffic, all the apps, all the agents in their own apps. They want to use my model? They want to come to my app store. They're both referees and athletes, trying to dry every drop of profits in the industry chain.

But Anthropic chose a different model.

Anthropic is very clear: the power of a company is limited. You can't make the best app in all verticals around the world by yourself.

Instead of defending developers as potential competitors, turn them into their own "workers".

A third-party agent that allows subscription quotas directly to "white potatoes" is Anthropic, which accelerates its own ecological application of potatoes.

I'm going to take a look at the following picture:

With no regard for API costs, applications based on the Claude Agent SDK will explode.

Today we have an Agent that cuts videos automatically.

Tomorrow comes an Agent that will take over the rebuilding of your entire code library.

The next day comes an Agent that automatically helps you process bulk Excel forms.

These third-party applications, the better done, the more people use them.

And users want to use these divine apps.I have to buy a subscription to Claude Max and Team!

Anthropic is using the wisdom of the entire third-party developer community to help itself sell members!

They have cleverly tied the interests of global developers to their own depths by reducing the barriers to use of third-party applications and the costs of developer immersion.

The developers get free computing channels and a lot of high-value users. Users get the most prosperous, hardest-core tool ecosystem on the market. Anthropic gets a continuous subscription fee and an unshakable ecosystem.

It was a conspiracy. Competitors tearfully watched Anthropic's ecosystem grow as large as a snowball, but it was difficult to replicate the strategy because it required extreme depth, as well as extreme confidence in their own models (especially code and Agent capabilities).

The window of opportunity is always fleeting.

Looking back at the history of the Internet, every time the underlying policies of the platform are open, it gives rise to great companies.

Apple opened the App Store and achieved a decade-long boom in mobile internet.

WeChat has opened small programs that have fed countless startup teams.

Today, Anthropic explicitly supports third-party subscription calls, which is the "App Store Opening Hour" of the AI big model era.

For a wide range of independent developers, product managers and startup teams, this is an unprecedented dividend period.

Don't hesitate again.

Read the documents, write the code, call the SDK.

Using the most profitable Claude model to cut out the outdated, inefficient, painful business scenarios.

To create a truly landing agent.

The golden age of activism officially began today.

We're just getting started.