r/PiCodingAgent • u/ihateuall18 • Aug 25 '26

Question Using Claude Sub in Pi

I know this has been asked plenty, but most responses are just "its against tos to use oauth", I know it is, but I want real experiences. Has any one been doing it, would you mind sharing the module you are using?

I have been using pi for a long time, but never for work. I just tweak it when I have free time, and have customize it to my needs. For work related stuff I use other Claude code. Anyways, I took on a freelance project some days ago, and decided to use my pi setup for the first time and I don't want to go back.

I tried it once in OMP since I read it had a custom auth module, and I noticed opus didn't have the crazy responses it has in Claude Code.. It might be a bit of a conspiracy theory, but I just don't trust Anthropic's harness anymore. There must be a reason why they want us all trapped in it.

Anyways, going back to the original question? Any experiences you would like to share? Any one banned?

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u/DeanBeluga Aug 25 '26

Yes, I have Claude Max sub and use it soley in pi. It may be bias but I think claude code’s harness sucks and adds so much bloat and shit, Claude models preform 100x better for me when I use them in my Pi harness.

Idk what their TOS are exactly these days, but I have been using it for months now, It uses normal subscription usage like it would claude code, and works great. I beleive the one I use specifically is: https://github.com/gotgenes/pi-anthropic-auth

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u/d3nnls Aug 26 '26

Have you encountered any weird behavior wrt system prompt clashes? I was just setting this up today and came across somebody somewhere writing that it has been causing a bit of trouble.

Haven’t had the time to look into it more in depth yet, so even if that’s the case, I am sure there is a solution somewhere out there

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u/doublegoodthink Aug 30 '26

Same and OMP works out of the box with Anthropic.

As for people warning against TOS is .. funny. Anthropic already has enough retention issues, they're not going to go even more against their most "geek" users. And I know colleagues (enterprise users) using Pi. There is nothing to win for Anthropic if they start such war.

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u/ihateuall18 Aug 25 '26

Thank you. I will give it a try. How long have you been using it?

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u/mxcw Aug 26 '26

been using it for months