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NezArk · 2026-10-28T17:36:20.000Z

You can. Anthropic documents it: the Agent SDK and claude -p work signed in with your Claude plan and draw from your normal subscription limits. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

We build a desktop app on top of the SDK, so I've spent a lot of time on that page.

hedgehog · 2026-10-28T17:51:13.000Z

Not true any more, read the note at the top of that page. They give you API credits but it's limited.

lxembourg · 2026-10-28T17:57:51.000Z

…have you read that note? Specifically the last half?

hedgehog · 2026-10-28T19:28:28.000Z

The wording is ambiguous but empirically when I last ran claude -p as part of a job it drew from my $200 API credit.

InsideOutSanta · 2026-10-28T19:54:46.000Z

Not for me, it uses subscription quota.

mellab2 · 2026-10-28T20:48:16.000Z

Can confirm it draws from my subscription

InsideOutSanta · 2026-10-28T19:54:16.000Z

Anthropic employees clarified in HN comment threads that the API credits are in addition to the existing behavior and not a replacement. Other harnesses can still call the Claude Code CLI and use the subscription quota that way.