Anthropic killed third-party agent access on April 4 — forcing frameworks like OpenClaw onto $1k-5k/day API billing where a $200/mo Max sub used to cover it — then drops a managed agent product days later. Textbook platform capture: starve the ecosystem, sell the replacement. Crypto devs running autonomous DeFi agents got hit hardest since continuous compute bleeds cash at API rates, and the migration to Ollama and Hermes Agent is already well underway.

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