AI NewsAnthropic Reverses Decision on Third-Party Agentic Tools, Allows OpenClaw Usage in Claude Plans

Anthropic Reverses Decision on Third-Party Agentic Tools, Allows OpenClaw Usage in Claude Plans

6:45 PM IST · May 15, 2026

The artificial intelligence (AI) space has started moving away from an “unlimited free buffet” pricing model for programmatic and agentic automation. After Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot will move to a metered credit allotment calculated on token consumption instead of premium requests, Anthropic is moving towards a similar model. The company said that a monthly fixed credit will now be provided for programmatic use. However, the upside to the change is that it now reverses the AI startup's older decision not to allow third-party agentic tool usage via Claude plans.