Your Claude subscription just changed 🥲


Hey Reader,

Anthropic just announced free monthly API credits for all Claude subscribers! 🎉

Sounds great, right?

Well, let's read the fine print...

The catch nobody's talking about.

Starting June 15th, third-party tools like Conductor can no longer tap into your Claude subscription directly.

Instead, they will now pull from those shiny new API credits.

But here's the thing.

If you're on the $100/month Max plan, you get $100 in API credits.

Claude Opus 4.7 will chew through that in a few hours.

It's like your gym handing you a free smoothie coupon while quietly removing half the equipment.

The smoothie is nice. But you came here to train.

What still works.

If you use Claude Code or the Claude Desktop app, nothing actually changes.

In fact, you get +50% limits for the next two weeks, which is nice.

But if you use terminal orchestrators, like Conductor or T3 Code, you've got a month left.

Your options going forward:

  1. Use Claude Code directly (terminal or the desktop app)
  2. Use a terminal wrapper like Superset or Emdash​
  3. If you love Conductor, try out their new "Big Terminal" mode

Anything that runs through the terminal still works.

Anything that doesn't is cooked after June 15th.

Quick recap.

  • Claude Code/Desktop: no changes
  • You get +50% usage limits for the next two weeks
  • Free monthly API credits equal to your sub tier ($20, $100, or $200)
  • Third-party tools now burn API credits instead of your subscription

Why this really matters.

Anthropic is pushing everyone toward their own tools. Terminal. Desktop app. Their ecosystem.

This isn't the first, and it won't be the last time that they're doing this.

And if you use any third-party Claude tools, plan your switch now.

June 15th is closer than you think.

Speak soon,
Rob

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