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Claude Code source code leak and clone expectations

April 3, 2026Charly Wargnier, Prajwal Tomar, Rohan Paul

Multiple posts discuss Claude Code source code being available locally or leaked, raising questions about control over locally compiled versions and predicting a wave of clones and alternatives.

Claude Codes proprietary source leaked via npm.
Anthropic filed a DMCA to kill 8,100 GitHub repos.
So yesterday's massive Anthropic source-code leak was a process bug, a human error.
Claude Code just got open sourced.
I'm honestly shocked Anthropic let this slip but at this point I'm pretty sure we're about to see 10 different Claude Code clones pop up in the next week lol.
It’s going to be fascinating to learn how much control Anthropic can exert over a locally compiled Claude Code.
WILD if true.
a claude code repo on your github is literally a ticking bomb :)
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