> Your subscription is supposed to use that free capacity. Hence, the token costs are not that high, hence you could buy that. But it needs careful management that you dont overload the system. There is a claude code telemetry which identifies the request as lower priority than API (and probably decide on queueing + caching too). If your harness makes 10 parallel calls everytime you query, and not manage context as well as claude code, its overwhelming the system, degrading the performance for others too. And if everyone just wants to use subscription and you have no api takers, the price of subscription is not sustainable anyway. In a way you are relying on others' generosity for the cheap usage you get.

I understand what you mean but outright removing the ability for other agents to use the claude code subscription is still really harsh

If telemetry really is a reason (Note: I doubt it is, I think the marketing/lock-ins aspect might matter more but for the sake of discussion, lets assume so that telemetry is in fact the reason)

Then, they could've simply just worked with co-ordination with OpenCode or other agent providers. In fact this is what OpenAI is doing, they recently announced a partnership/collaboration with OpenCode and are actively embracing it in a way. I am sure that OpenCode and other agents could generate telemetry or atleast support such a feature if need be