The Secret Sauce Leaked. Turns Out There Was No Secret.

The best-kept secret in AI just leaked. And it turns out there was no secret. On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. 513,000 lines. 1,900+ files. Unobfuscated. The crown jewels of the company that arguably builds the best AI agent on the planet, suddenly sitting in everyone's node_modules. The internet did what the internet does. Mirrored it. Forked it. Dissected it. By the time Anthropic's DMCA takedowns went out, it was alr