From Reddit saved post — r/openclaw, u/nkondratyk93, Apr 04 2026 https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1sc48l6/anthropic_just_killed_my_17agent_pipeline_heres/ Got the email this morning. Third-party harness support ends today at 12pm PT. I run 17 agents on OpenClaw - 10 platform promo agents, 7 content pipeline crons. All on a Max subscription. The good news: Claude Code is explicitly covered by the subscription. And it turns out the migration is embarrassingly simple. **What I did:** 1. Created a CLAUDE.md file in each OpenClaw workspace directory. This is the entry point - tells Claude "you are this agent, read HEARTBEAT.md, follow it step by step." About 20 lines per agent. 2. Created a script bash wrapper that runs claude -p --model sonnet --dangerously-skip-permissions and pipes output to Slack via curl. 3. Replaced OpenClaw heartbeats with macOS crontab entries. Same intervals, same schedule. 4. Set CLAUDE\_CODE\_OAUTH\_TOKEN in crontab (claude uses Keychain which cron can't access). That's it. My agents run the exact same HEARTBEAT.md, PLAYBOOK.md, SOUL.md, BROWSER-\*.md files they always did. Zero rewrite of agent logic **What caught me off guard:** * claude binary is at \~/.local/bin/claude - not in cron's default PATH * Cron can't access macOS Keychain - need the OAuth token as env var * \--bare flag breaks auth for subscription users (skips OAuth) **The one-liner per agent:** `claude -p --model sonnet --dangerously-skip-permissions --append-system-prompt "You are the Reddit agent. Read CLAUDE.md first, follow HEARTBEAT.md." "Execute your heartbeat."` Browser automation: My agents use OpenClaw's CDP browser. Claude Code can use the same exec openclaw browser commands if you keep the gateway running, or switch to Claude in Chrome / Playwright MCP. Total migration time: \~4 hours including testing. All 17 agents running via crontab now. OpenClaw gateway disabled. Anyone else migrating today? What's your setup look like?