When you're building a distributed product that goes beyond internal testing, the licensing terms become a real constraint. With Anthropic's API usage policy, it's pretty straightforward: if your application is distributed to external users, you need to use their official API rather than attempting workarounds like plan-sharing. We learned this the hard way with our own project—the terms were explicit about this requirement. Now they're simply making the enforcement clearer. It's a good reminder that scaling any AI-integrated solution means planning for compliance from the start, not after you've already built out your infrastructure.