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mapcars
Are there any interesting/uniq features present in it that are not in the alternatives? My understanding is that its just a client for the powerful llm
LeoDaVibeci
Isn't it open source?

Or is there an open source front-end and a closed backend?

treexs
The big loss for Anthropic here is how it reveals their product roadmap via feature flags. A big one is their unreleased "assistant mode" with code name kairos.

Just point your agent at this codebase and ask it to find things and you'll find a whole treasure trove of info.

Edit: some other interesting unreleased/hidden features

- The Buddy System: Tamagotchi-style companion creature system with ASCII art sprites

- Undercover mode: Strips ALL Anthropic internal info from commits/PRs for employees on open source contributions

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baxtr
Is there an AGI mode FF? Asking for a friend…
q3k
The code looks, at a glance, as bad as you expect.
cruffle_duffle
It'd dogfooding the entire concept of vibe coding and honestly, that is a good thing. Obviously they care about that stuff, but if your ethos is "always vibe code" then a lot of the fixes to it become model & prompting changes to get the thing to act like a better coder / agent / sysadmin / whatever.
bob1029
Is this significant?

Copilot on OAI reveals everything meaningful about its functionality if you use a custom model config via the API. All you need to do is inspect the logs to see the prompts they're using. So far no one seems to care about this "loophole". Presumably, because the only thing that matters is for you to consume as many tokens per unit time as possible.

The source code of the slot machine is not relevant to the casino manager. He only cares that the customer is using it.

avaer
Would be interesting to run this through Malus [1] or literally just Claude Code and get open source Claude Code out of it.

I jest, but in a world where these models have been trained on gigatons of open source I don't even see the moral problem. IANAL, don't actually do this.

https://malus.sh/

DamnInteresting
Malus is a homophone of "malice." But then again "Claude" is a homophone of "clod."
karimf
Is there anything special here vs. OpenCode or Codex?

There were/are a lot of discussions on how the harness can affect the output.

Squarex
Codex and gemini cli are open source already. And plenty of other agents. I don't think there is any moat in claude code source.
theanonymousone
I am waiting now for someone to make it work with a Copilot Pro subscription.
anhldbk
I guess it's time for Anthropic to open source Claude Code.
lukan
Neat. Coincidently recently I asked Claude about Claude CLI, if it is possible to patch some annoying things (like not being able to expand Ctrl + O more than once, so never be able to see some lines and in general have more control over the context) and it happily proclaimed it is open source and it can do it ... and started doing something. Then I checked a bit and saw, nope, not open source. And by the wording of the TOS, it might brake some sources. But claude said, "no worries", it only break the TOS technically. So by saving that conversation I would have some defense if I would start messing with it, but felt a bit uneasy and stopped the experiment. Also claude came into a loop, but if I would point it at this, it might work I suppose.
bredren
The trick isn't to patch it once, but to create a system that can reproduce your patches against each release as they come in. Then, when code changes make fixes non-trivial calling in a headless session to heal your fixes.
DeathArrow
I wonder what will happen with the poor guy who forgot to delete the code...
dhruv3006
I have a feeling this is like llama.

Original llama models leaked from meta. Instead of fighting it they decided to publish them officially. Real boost to the OS/OW models movement, they have been leading it for a while after that.

It would be interesting to see that same thing with CC, but I doubt it'll ever happen.

ChicagoDave
I hope everyone provides excellent feedback so they improve Claude Code.
DeathArrow
Why is Claude Code, a desktop tool, written in JS? Is the future of all software JS or Typescript?
isodev
Can we stop referring to source maps as leaks? It was packaged in a way that wasn’t even obfuscated. Same as websites - it’s not a “leak” that you can read or inspect the source code.
cedws 

    ANTI_DISTILLATION_CC
    
    This is Anthropic's anti-distillation defence baked into Claude Code. When enabled, it injects anti_distillation: ['fake_tools'] into every API request, which causes the server to silently slip decoy tool definitions into the model's system prompt. The goal: if someone is scraping Claude Code's API traffic to train a competing model, the poisoned training data makes that distillation attempt less useful.
GorbachevyChase
I like these guys less every day. The rate limits are so low they are close to not even useful as a provider.
3form
I was thinking just yesterday that the research that Anthropic was sharing regarding how it's easy to poison training was unlikely to be conducted out of goodness of the heart.
torginus
This made me think of something - at work, if we wfh, we have to use one of those MITM proxies that intercept HTTPS at the kernel level. Imo such a thing can easily read the traffic and thus is indistinguishable from a distillation attempt from CC's PoV. I've had CC freak out on my machine, and sometimes generate pretty bad results, the CoT is often also not available.

I wonder it CC thinks I'm trying to distill the model. This is a common enough use case that I think the devs at Anthropic should consider.

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huang-b62b5756
It is a RCE, if what’s being injected is an executable and malicious tool
cbracketdash
Once the USA wakes up, this will be insane news