Ran into this while trying to get Claude Code to summarize a Reddit thread for me: WebFetch and WebSearch are both blocked outright on reddit.com. No error it can work around, no shell fallback by default, it just gives up and asks for permission it’s never going to get. So I built only-cli , a CLI for websites and compact instead of raw HTML, and gave Claude Code a Bash(oc:*) permission to use it saving on 50% token cost. Claude Code’s default fails the task outright and gets blocked with 403 because it tries to parse the subreddit directly. Codex’s default falls back to its own web search + curl and gets there at 301,009 tokens; oc gets there at 112,794 through Reddit, multi-hop ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±----------------+ | session | tokens | est. cost | turns | result | ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±----------------+ | Codex + oc | 112,794 | $0.24 | 6 | right | | Codex default | 301,009 | $0.54 | 12 | right | | Claude Code + oc | 250,628 | $0.21 | 8 | right | | Claude Code default | 196,675 | $0.14 | 7 | failed | ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±----------------+ AAPL, single page ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±-------+ | session | tokens | est. cost | turns | result | ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±-------+ | Codex + oc | 59,648 | $0.13 | 4 | right | | Claude Code default | 123,866 | $0.09 | 3 | right | | Claude Code + oc | 198,976 | $0.17 | 7 | right | | Codex default | 71,947 | $0.13 | 4 | failed | ±--------------------±--------±----------±------±-------+ submitted by /u/GeekLifer
Originally posted by u/GeekLifer on r/ClaudeCode