It's for lock-in - same reason why it took them so long to finally support AGENTS.md.
replyBut to be fair, they don't really enforce the harness rule that much anymore. I guess if your harness doesn't do a lot of weird things like a lot of cache misses, or triggers some distillation attacks, or some broader Chinese fingerprints, they're tongue-in-cheek okay with you using a third party harness.
You can use Claude’s subscription in Pi now? Last I tried it opted for extra usage.
replyNot natively, as it's still a ToS violation and adding that in pi would go against pi principles, but there are many plugins/proxies that make it work.
replyoh-my-pi supports it natively (again, still a ToS violation), by impersonating claude code's fingerprints.
I have been using oh-my-pi with 3 claude subs for the past few months without any issues. Even native server-side OAI/ANT compaction works out of the box.
They want to lock people into using the Claude Code ecosystem to make switching to other providers more difficult.
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