Dax confirms Open Code's attempt to let users tap their Claude Code Max plan through the product was blocked by Anthropic, and remains officially unsupported despite user workarounds. ✦ AI generated
Dax Raad · Syntax · 2026-07-15 · original ↗
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“But what is the current status of Claude Code, the Claude Code Max plan, Open Code, and third-party harnesses.”
the integration that the plugin that we had in open code that let you use your max plan, that's definitely not allowed. They we fought with them on that for a lot and we did not win. So, that that that's definitely not allowed. Of course, people still find ways to hack it in. We just can't officially support it.
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32:23things like the Claude Code Max plan. Or it just seems like they are probably a difficult partner to work with. But what is the current status of Claude Code, the Claude Code Max plan, Open Code, and third-party harnesses. >> Yeah, so the integration that the plugin that we had in open code that let you use your max plan, that's definitely not allowed. They we fought with them on that for a lot
32:48and we did not win. So, [laughter] that that that's definitely not allowed. Of course, people still find ways to hack it in. We just can't officially support it. Um the the SDK, which is like spawning Claude or like using Claude headlessly, that is now in a gray area. They're saying for now it's allowed. So, a product conductor can wrap it. A product like T3 code can wrap it.
33:15We're never going to wrap that. Like that just kind of defeats the point of open code in a lot of ways. Um So, the the orchestrator things are like the the cust or like the alternative UIs for these things, I think those products work for now. But again, still unclear. It This is one of those things where this comes down to your company's culture. Like fundamentally whether
33:34you're a very consumer-oriented business or you're a uh enterprise-oriented business. Um OpenAI is very much a consumer-oriented business, which means they will burn any amount of money, raise any amount of money to bring the experience to more people. Uh which is why the OpenAI subscription is supported in open code officially. Um I think Anthropic doesn't really have that exact same culture. Not saying one or right over the other. It's just like
33:59different ways that a company can operate. Um If your company's not oriented like that, it's hard because any inference you're allocating for this like more consumer-oriented thing, there's a sales guy being like, I've got an enterprise customer willing to pay like actual prices for this thing. If your computer is at all at all limited, it becomes very hard within your organization to to justify allowing open code users to use this