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Clean room rewrites of leaked Claude Code into Python

March 31, 2026Gergely Orosz, Yuchen Jin, Rohan Paul

Gergely Orosz, Yuchen Jin, and Rohan Paul describe a fork that avoided takedown risk by rewriting the leaked TypeScript into Python, arguing it sidesteps copyright claims. Several posts claim AI tools like Codex make this kind of rewrite fast, raising new copyright questions.

this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
convert the whole codebase from TypeScript to Python with Codex
Python rewrite that saved the day.
Gergely Orosz
Yuchen Jin
Rohan Paul
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