Hello everyone!
Today on BlueSky, I saw a post linking to a Github repository of Claude's source code, rewritten in Python.
This is probably the weirdest thing that's happened this week. lol, the funniest thing is that it'll now be harder for Anthropic to demand that this code be removed because it doesn't infringe copyright.
In short, as always, this is weird. I'm probably not the first to tell you this news. I don't know if it works, but the repository doesn't inspire confidence in me. The repository quickly went viral (30k+ stars in 20 minutes) and its Issues are quite spammy...
By the way, he's already rebranded several times in the last half hour, so my suspicions about copyright infringement are becoming more and more confirmed.
Also, the author of this "remake" has started making a port to Rust. 😨
Discuss
What's your opinion? Do you think the repository will be removed?
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Better Harness Tools, not merely storing the archive of leaked Claude Code but also make shit things done. Now rewriting in Rust.
Rewriting Project Claw Code
Better Harness Tools, not merely storing the archive of leaked Claude Code
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Rust port is now in progress on the dev/rust branch and is expected to be merged into main today. The Rust implementation aims to deliver a faster, memory-safe harness runtime. Stay tuned — this will be the definitive version of the project.
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Backstory
At 4 AM on March 31, 2026, I woke up to my phone blowing up with notifications. The Claude Code source had been exposed, and the entire dev community was in a frenzy. My girlfriend in Korea was genuinely worried I might face legal action from Anthropic just for having the code on my machine — so I did what any engineer would do under pressure: I sat down, ported the core…
Top comments (2)
Na it's over. Someone already has the ZIP folder by the time if it were to be removed 😭
Yeah, what's on the internet can never be brought back 😏