Anthropic limits Claude access in OpenClaw; migrate to Hugging Face open models or local llama.cpp deployments

AI Impact Summary

Anthropic is restricting Claude model access within OpenClaw for Pro/Max subscribers, which will disable Claude-powered responses unless migration occurs. The recommended workaround is to switch to open-source models via Hugging Face Inference Providers or run a local open model with llama.cpp, with onboarding steps including creating a Hugging Face token and updating OpenClaw configuration. This entails updating OpenClaw to point to models such as huggingface/zai-org/GLM-5:fastest or local GGUF models like unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF, and involves hardware, privacy, and cost trade-offs (HF PRO credits apply). Expect changes in latency, throughput, and cost profile depending on hosted versus local deployment.