The internet is on fire over Claude Code’s (NPM CLI to be precise) “leaked” source. 512,000 lines! Feature flags! System prompts! Unreleased features! VentureBeat, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Register, Hacker News - everyone covered it. A clean-room Rust rewrite (to dodge the DMCA) hit 100K GitHub stars in nearly a day - a world record. 110K now and counting.
Here’s what nobody’s saying: all of that was already public! On npm. In plaintext. For years.
Open unpkg.com/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js right now - that’s the entire Claude Code CLI, one click away, readable in your browser. No leak required.