Anthropic reversed its position on Claude CLI: last week it was gray, today it's green. My workflow didn't change.

Anthropic just confirmed that using Claude via CLI — the pattern that tools like OpenClaw popularized — is allowed. The community is celebrating. I use it too. But I'm watching this from a pretty specific vantage point: my workflow didn't change a single line. What changed was Anthropic's official position. And the more I think about that, the more it bothers me. Not because they gave the green light. But because for weeks I was operating in a gray zone that should never have existed in the firs