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

AIMPACT News, May 14 (UTC+8), according to Beating Monitoring from Dongcha, Anthropic announced new rules today, removing scripts that automatically run tasks from the regular pool of subscription plans and imposing a $20 monthly limit. However, it also states that “interactive typing chat” on the terminal remains unlimited.
As soon as the new rules were issued, the developer community responded with countermeasures. An open-source project called claude-p directly disguises script calls as human typing, successfully bypassing this billing wall.
Its method is to silently launch a virtual terminal (PTY) in the background, open the official Claude Code interface; then use code to mimic human behavior, typing prompts on the keyboard and pressing Enter.
Once Claude finishes generating the answer, it captures the result and passes it to external programs.
With this disguise, from Anthropic’s server perspective, all high-frequency machine requests appear as if a human is typing and chatting on the screen.
Third-party tools can thus continue to use the original subscription quota without being limited by the $20 cap.
The project author complained on the homepage: “Trying to control how others use your product through the client is just a waste of effort.”
(Source: BlockBeats)