Responding to Anthropic's Restrictions, How to Use OpenClaw

As Anthropic restricts Pro/Max subscribers' access to Claude models within open agent platforms, two alternatives are presented for maintaining agents such as OpenClaw, Pi, and Open Code.

1. Using Hugging Face Inference Providers This is the fastest way to restore your agent, using open models via Hugging Face's inference providers.

• Generate a Hugging Face token and authenticate with the command openclaw onboard --auth-choice huggingface-api-key.
• A model with strong Terminal Bench performance such as GLM-5 is recommended.
• HF PRO subscribers can take advantage of $2 in free credits each month.

2. Local Setup If you want privacy protection and cost savings, you can run models locally using llama.cpp.

• Install llama.cpp and run a local server via llama-server.
• Using a GGUF model such as Qwen3.5-35B-A3B allows smooth operation even in a 32GB RAM environment.
• You can connect the local API endpoint through OpenClaw settings for use.