Claude-pee: use Claude -p without the programmatic usage credit pool
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Anthropic announced today that starting June 15, paid Claude plans get a separate monthly credit pool for programmatic usage (claude -p, Agent SDK). Seems OK at first glance but it turns out the monthly credit pool is charged at API rates, which effectively kills any serious programmatic usage for hobbyists.This is a small Claude Code wrapper which runs claude in a PTY, injecting input, finding the session transcript jsonl file, and using a stop hook to determine when claude is done.It's a drop-in replacement for claude code. All arguments except the "-p" argument are forwarded as-is.claude-pee -p "hello world"Could be used as a cheap way of using Anthropic subscriptions for OpenClaw, Hermes, etc.Written in Rust, MIT license.
HN · launched May 14, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 58%) · 0 views
Niche: ai api gateways and proxies · 336 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a CLI proxy or wrapper that intercepts Claude CLI commands and routes requests through browser-session cookies/tokens rather than the API billing endpoint.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Agent SDK
Concerns raised: streaming outputs not working, feels like working around official constraints, uncertainty about proper integration approach
Feature requests: stream outputs while using jsonl transcript mode
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Launched 189 days after the earliest competitor.
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