Fake real person typing on the keyboard, open-source tool claude-p bypasses Claude $20 paywall

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According to Beating monitoring, Anthropic has introduced new rules today, kicking scripts that automatically run tasks out of the regular pool of subscription plans and forcibly placing a monthly $20 quota cap on them. At the same time, it also specifies that the “interactive typing chat” in the terminal remains unlimited.

Right after the new rules were released, the developer community came up with countermeasures. An open-source project called claude-p directly disguises script calls as real-time human typing, successfully bypassing the billing wall.

Its method is to silently spin up a virtual terminal (PTY) in the background, then open the official Claude Code interface; next, it uses code to imitate human behavior—typing the prompts on the keyboard and pressing Enter. After Claude outputs the answer, it captures the results and passes them to an external program.

With this layer of disguise, from Anthropic’s server perspective, all high-frequency machine requests look like a real person typing and chatting in front of the screen. As a result, third-party tools can continue using the original subscription quota without being affected by the $20 limit.

In a statement on the project’s homepage, the author complained: “Trying to stop others from using your product from the client side is just a waste of effort.”

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