The Great Claude Code Leak of 2026: Accident...

TL;DR: On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry via a single misconfigured debug file. 512,000 lines. 1,906 TypeScript files. 44 hidden feature flags. A Tamagotchi pet. And one very uncomfortable question: was it really an accident? 1. What Actually Happened The Root Cause: One Missing Line in .npmignore This is both the most embarrassing and most instructive part of the story. Let me walk through the technical chain of ev