# Anthropic Banned OpenClaw’s Creator From Claude. Then Its Own Engineer Said It Never Does That. - Date: 2026-04-10 - Category: Agentics Anthropic banned the creator of OpenClaw from Claude for "suspicious activity" on Friday — then reinstated him hours later after he posted the screenshot publicly. An Anthropic engineer then told him the company has never banned anyone for using OpenClaw. Both things cannot be true. ---