Claude code's source code just got leaked in a mother of leaks

[Jason Voorhees]

Muh safety first architecture. Closed down.

Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

Claude Code 2.1.88 leak exposed 512,000 lines via npm error, fueling supply chain risks and typosquatting attacks.

thehackernews.com

Inside the hours when coders tore through Claude's guts and found pets, spinner verbs, and a curse chart

Sigrid Jin woke up to chaos and shipped "Claw Code" by breakfast. Here's everything it taught the world.

www.businessinsider.com

Within seconds of a the leak. A few cybersecurity experts and researchers found that version 2.1.88 was shipped with a 57 MB source map file. For those that don't know these are exclusively only used for development and that lead to the entire source code. Almost 500,000+ lines of code being leaked. It spread like wild fire on the internet. Claude's legal team issued DMCA takedowns but by the time they woke up in San Francisco. Damage had already been done. This is the internet nigga. I have the code btw. But most of you niggas probably don't know what it even means

 

[Chance1]

Tldr plz

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Swarthy Knight @Glorious King @User28823 @topology @imontheloose

 

[estrogen consumer]

Tldr plz

Claude didn’t want any of their shit leaked and it all got leaked
And their code is like 5x worse than their competitors

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Claude didn’t want any of their shit leaked and it all got leaked
And their code is like 5x worse than their competitors

There were a lot of controversial decisions and shitty code too. These are the people telling everyone programming is dead jfl

 

[Swarthy Knight]

Claude didn’t want any of their shit leaked and it all got leaked
And their code is like 5x worse than their competitors

How do you figure out if code is good or not

 

[estrogen consumer]

How do you figure out if code is good or not

Idk I saw a TikTok explaining it
They used 500k lines of code and their leading competitor only uses 100k lines
And the less lines is better

 

[Jason Voorhees]

How do you figure out if code is good or not

It's complicated but basically write as little code as possible, with logic that is as simple as possible covering edge cases and error with proper comments for people after you to pick up from where you left.

 

[topology]

Muh safety first architecture. Closed down.

Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

Claude Code 2.1.88 leak exposed 512,000 lines via npm error, fueling supply chain risks and typosquatting attacks.

thehackernews.com

Inside the hours when coders tore through Claude's guts and found pets, spinner verbs, and a curse chart

Sigrid Jin woke up to chaos and shipped "Claw Code" by breakfast. Here's everything it taught the world.

www.businessinsider.com

Within seconds of a the leak. A few cybersecurity experts and researchers found that in version 2.1.88 was shipped with a 57 MB source map file. For those that don't know these are exclusively only used for development and that lead to the entire source code. Almost 500,000+ lines of code. It spread like wild fire on the internet. Claude's legal team issued DMCA takedowns but by the time they woke up in San Francisco. Damage had already been done. This is the internet nigga. I have the code btw. But most of you niggas probably don't know what it even means

It was implied that it was intentional by the CEO. I believe it might have been due to the fact that Claude has been restricted some what by Trump for not allowing military use. This directly competes against OpenAI which is their biggest concern and what partnered with the military.

I may completely be wrong on some of the points above but that's what I've heard and it makes sense to me putting the dots together. Makes even more sense since their new Mythos tier has been leaked. Not like any normal person could run Opus 4.6 locally anyways. Most people still benefit from buying the packages on the site itself.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Idk I saw a TikTok explaining it
They used 500k lines of code and their leading competitor only uses 100k lines
And the less lines is better

Correct only idiots think more lines is muh better. Every line of code is a liability. The less the better

 

[Nathan Fielder]

They’re lucky I didn’t get my hands on it

 

[Jason Voorhees]

It was implied that it was intentional by the CEO. I believe it might have been due to the fact that Claude has been restricted some what by Trump for not allowing military use. This directly competes against OpenAI which is their biggest concern and what partnered with the military.

I may completely be wrong on some of the points above but that's what I've heard and it makes sense to me putting the dots together. Makes even more sense since their new Mythos tier has been leaked. Not like any normal person could run Opus 4.6 locally anyways. Most people still benefit from buying the packages on the site itself.

Yes but their entire workflows and reasoning process that gave them and edge is now exposed so one of their competitors could study the code and implement versions of it in their code also

 

[Swarthy Knight]

Idk I saw a TikTok explaining it
They used 500k lines of code and their leading competitor only uses 100k lines
And the less lines is better

It's complicated but basically write as little code as possible, with logic that is as simple as possible covering edge cases and error with proper comments for people after you to pick up from where you left.

I guess that makes sense from an efficiency standpoint. But at the end of the day, if both sets of code (both short and long) produce the same/similar results, does that affect the actual consumer experience in any meaningful way?

 

[J99]

what would people even do with the code anyway

 

[topology]

Yes but their entire workflows and reasoning process that gave them and edge is now exposed so one of their competitors could study the code and implement versions of it in their code also

Do they not like implement massive differences every time a new AI model is released? Is this 500,000 line file the main reason why it's so much better? I really don't know much about this particular subject.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I guess that makes sense from an efficiency standpoint. But at the end of the day, if both sets of code (both short and long) produce the same/similar results, does that affect the actual consumer experience in any meaningful way?

For 90% of tasks it is invisible to the end user but changing or modifying in case there's a bug or adding features is a nightmare with bad cofe

 

[Jason Voorhees]

It's all incremental improvements. Also that 500k typescript is illegal but oss community converted the entire code from typescript to barely legal python code. Already reached 100k stars btw

GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex. - ultraworkers/claw-code

github.com

Also it does not include the actual Al model weights, training data, or core neural network code. It just has workflows, telemetry, and interfaces for interacting with Claude.

Do they not like implement massive differences every time a new AI model is released? Is this 500,000 line file the main reason why it's so much better? I really don't know much about this particular subject.

 

[Framemaxxx]

nvm

 

[Framemaxxx]

 

[cash.org]

holy shit

its gonna get crazy

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Some nigga also rewrote the whole thing in python

GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex. - ultraworkers/claw-code

github.com

Already linked it above.

 

[Seven]

@claude iqlet

 

[Framemaxxx]

Already linked it above.

yea mb i didnt see that

 

[thekidd8]

I’m not in the CS space but what little knowledge I do have from my brief time in uni leads me to believe this is pretty big. How silly of a mistake do you have to make to accidentally leak your entire company’s software for their main product.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

yea mb i didnt see that

Not only this



But someone forked the code and made it work with any model. It's called open claude

openclaude — gitlawb

Claude Code opened to any LLM — OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible API shim · Decentralized git repository on gitlawb.

gitlawb.com

Save it now. It might get taken down

 

[soapbubble]

I've just been using Claude for school and looksmaxxing questions

does it even matter to the average person?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I’m not in the CS space but what little knowledge I do have from my brief time in uni leads me to believe this is pretty big. How silly of a mistake do you have to make to accidentally leak your entire company’s software for their main product.

Generally bundle.js.map automatically get filtered out but all the newer versions of claude code are built with bun.js which they acquired last year

And just a few weeks back someone raised issue about bun.js throwing in the map in production

Things like this common and generally get addressed in audits but probably someone in management wanted to get ahead of competition and shipped without any audits and thinking twice. Nothing is clear rn but this seems more like something what a greedy corporate in upper management did than an engineering over sight.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Generally bundle.js.map automatically get filtered out but all the newer versions of claude code are built with bun.js which they acquired last year

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And just a few weeks back someone raised issue about bun.js throwing in the map in production

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Things like this common and generally get addressed in audits but probably someone in management wanted to get ahead of competition and shipped without any audits and thinking twice. Nothing is clear rn but this seems more like something what a greedy corporate did than an engineering over sight.

@topology @Swarthy Knight @Framemaxxx

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Chadeep

 

[Chadeep]

Can't wait for bubble to burst so that Ram and Storage is again normal price

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@BigBallsLarry

 

[imontheloose]

@Swarthy Knight @Glorious King @User28823 @topology @imontheloose

Send pastebin

 

[wunderkind]

what would people even do with the code anyway

It has been open sourced and altered so now you can use the tool with other models and you're not locked down to Claude's AI models and their subscriptions

 

[Jason Voorhees]

It has been open sourced and altered so now you can use the tool with other models and you're not locked down to Claude's AI models and their subscriptions

Yes

Not only this



But someone forked the code and made it work with any model. It's called open claude

openclaude — gitlawb

Claude Code opened to any LLM — OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible API shim · Decentralized git repository on gitlawb.

gitlawb.com

Save it now. It might get taken down

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Send pastebin

Here

It's all incremental improvements. Also that 500k typescript is illegal but oss community converted the entire code from typescript to barely legal python code. Already reached 100k stars btw

GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Better Harness Tools that make real things done. Built in Rust using oh-my-codex. - ultraworkers/claw-code

github.com

Also it does not include the actual Al model weights, training data, or core neural network code. It just has workflows, telemetry, and interfaces for interacting with Claude.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Bukp

 

[kisslessvirgin]

was the first thing I saw

this morning I wonder

how this will impact them

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Bryce

 

[wunderkind]

Yes

That's been a thing I'm pretty sure, the real rewrite is in claw-code repo

 

[Bryce]

AI's been going down the shitter these last few weeks. Love to see it. SoG made a video about it yesterday I think.

 

[Glorious King]

Muh safety first architecture. Closed down.

Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

Claude Code 2.1.88 leak exposed 512,000 lines via npm error, fueling supply chain risks and typosquatting attacks.

thehackernews.com

Inside the hours when coders tore through Claude's guts and found pets, spinner verbs, and a curse chart

Sigrid Jin woke up to chaos and shipped "Claw Code" by breakfast. Here's everything it taught the world.

www.businessinsider.com

Within seconds of a the leak. A few cybersecurity experts and researchers found that version 2.1.88 was shipped with a 57 MB source map file. For those that don't know these are exclusively only used for development and that lead to the entire source code. Almost 500,000+ lines of code being leaked. It spread like wild fire on the internet. Claude's legal team issued DMCA takedowns but by the time they woke up in San Francisco. Damage had already been done. This is the internet nigga. I have the code btw. But most of you niggas probably don't know what it even means

YE SEND THAT SOURCE CODE IN PMS WILL YA