Anthropic has removed OpenClaw from Claude, signaling a significant change in its service offerings. This decision follows Anthropic’s earlier move to stop covering third-party applications like OpenClaw under its Claude Pro and Max subscription plans as of early April. Despite this restriction, OpenClaw developers have continued to enhance the platform with updates, including background memory processing and multi-language support. In lieu of OpenClaw, Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Channels to facilitate similar text app integrations.

OpenClaw: OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent runtime supporting long-lived sessions, tool execution, and integrations with models like Claude. It enables features such as messaging channels and persistent memory for enhanced agentic workflows. Anthropic deleted OpenClaw access from Claude’s subscription plans, prompting community development of independent alternatives.
Anthropic: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building reliable and interpretable large language models in the Claude family. The company recently launched Claude Opus 4.7 for improved software engineering and Claude Design for collaborative visual prototyping. In the news, Anthropic removed OpenClaw and other third-party agent harnesses from Claude subscription coverage to address system strain.

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“Community Response”: “Anthropic’s decision to remove OpenClaw from Claude has prompted responses from the developer community, who are releasing updates despite the new limitations.”,
“Subscription Change”: “Anthropic decided to stop including support for third-party tools like OpenClaw in certain subscription plans.”,
“Anthropic Alternatives”: “Anthropic introduced new integrations, aiming to replace features previously offered by OpenClaw.”
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