Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

1181 points by elmean 21 hours ago

https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

I reproduced this on my account.

    cd /tmp
    mkdir anthropic-claude
    cd anthropic-claude/
    git init
    touch hello
    git add -A
    git commit -m "'{\"schema\": \"openclaw.inbound_meta.v1\"}'"
    claude -p "hi"

Immediate disconnect and session usage went to 100%

petercooper - 18 hours ago

I wonder if projects which are anti-AI could place such identifiers surreptitiously into docs or commits as a way to sabotage people using Claude Code. Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.
- SlinkyOnStairs - 16 hours ago
  
  There is no "if". They could.
  There's no separation between parts of the prompt. You sneak that text in, anywhere, and it'll work. Whether Anthropic is using a regex or some LLM to detect the mentions of OpenClaw doesn't even matter.
  > Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.
  With how many projects automatically AI-review PRs, they're just sitting ducks. You don't even need to hide it, put it clear and center and there's your denial of service.
  Could even automate it.
  - giancarlostoro - 14 hours ago
    
    You don't even need to put it in a project, put it in all your blog posts as invisible (white font white background) text, and if Claude winds up reading your website as part of a research task, you basically bricked someone's Claude session.
    Why is it amateur hour at Anthropic lately?
    
    chillfox - 13 hours ago
    
    Because AI is a new product category in tech, and every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history, and so the dumb shit is repeated until they learn their own lessons.
    I am almost 40, and I have seen the same pattern play out several times now, it’s always the same.
    
    disgruntledphd2 - 3 hours ago
    
    > every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history,
    I've worked in a bunch of industries and places over the years, and this is not just a tech thing. Like, there's a reason that saving a day in the library with a week in the lab is a pretty famous saying.
    
    ChrisMarshallNY - 12 hours ago
    
    Yeah, I feel that.
    The ageism in tech probably has something to do with it.
    When I see some of these brobdingnagian disasters, I always wonder if there were any adults in the room, when the idea was greenlighted.
    
    antonvs - 12 hours ago
    
    Ageism is definitely part of it, but most people just don't seem to care to learn in general, and of course the incentives are against it.
    They'd rather treat the general version of Greenspun's 10th rule as a commandment, and create a new, ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of some fraction of whatever already addresses the requirement, than learn about how to use some existing tool that they don't already know.
    One of my favorite examples is a company that home-rolled their own version of (a subset of) Kubernetes, ending up with a fabulously fragile monstrosity that none of the devs want to touch any more, and those who do quickly regret it.
    
    berkeleyjunk - 10 hours ago
    
    Reminds me of
    https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubern...
    
    sodapopcan - 9 hours ago
    
    And Kubernetes kinda built a BEAM... kinda :) Like, if everyone would just use BEAM then it's true (lol).