Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code, its proprietary AI coding assistant, leading to a public fork that gained significant traction within hours. The incident represents a major unplanned open-sourcing of a commercial AI product and has sparked discussions about AI model security and open-source accessibility.
- Anthropic leaked the source code for Claude Code, its commercial AI coding assistant
- The code was forked publicly and gained over 52,000 GitHub stars and 64,000 forks within hours
- The incident occurred approximately three days ago according to web context
- This represents an unplanned release of what was described as Anthropic's 'crown jewel'
- The rapid community adoption suggests significant developer interest in open-source AI coding tools
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