# Anthropic cloned OpenClaw, then killed it: the four-week execution that spooked infra builders

- slug: anthropic-cloned-openclaw-then-killed-it-the-four-week-execution-that-spooked-infra-builders
- date: 2026-04-04
- category: Agentics

Eleven days after shipping Claude Code Channels, Anthropic killed the third-party tool that pioneered those same features — after a four-week execution that one analyst called deliberate economic strangulation.

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