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> You can use OpenCode programmatically, thus turning that $200/mo Claude Code account into a very cheap Opus 4.6 API service.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

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You can easily automate OpenCode - more so than the basic Claude Code or Claude desktop app - in a way that automatically uses the maximum amount of subscription quota every cycle. And in an inefficient way that Anthropic can't cache on their end.

If you know anything about subscription models, you know that ALL of them are built on the fact that most of the users don't use the full capacity available all the time.

Their SDK shows a really basic example that you could build out pretty easily, ironically about Anthropic:

https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/#structured-output

You can stand up an OpenAI compatible API layer in front of it and just feed the requests back and forth. Adds a little delay, but not much.

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