Anthropic announced that Claude Code subscribers must pay additional fees to use third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 5, 2026, at 12 p.m. PT, with Boris Cherny explaining that Claude subscriptions were not built for such usage patterns. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger and Dave Morin negotiated unsuccessfully to prevent the restriction, achieving only a one-week delay, while Anthropic offered affected subscribers a one-time credit equal to their monthly plan cost. The policy change came days after Anthropic's Claude Code command line interface source code leaked widely on GitHub due to internal human error, though the leak did not include the Claude models themselves. In February 2026, Sam Altman hired Steinberger for millions of dollars to drive OpenAI's personal agent development, with OpenClaw transitioning to an open source project supported by OpenAI despite originally being built specifically for Claude.
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