The dust has finally settled. With the preview of Mythos, the announcement of Project Glasswing, Claude reportedly becoming dumber, and the release of Claude Opus 4.7, the Claude Code leak from a few weeks ago has been somewhat forgotten. So now I can pull this from my backlog and share my own analysis on the topic away from the initial noise.How it all happenedOn 30 March 2026, someone at Anthropic made a packaging mistake. Claude Code version 2.1.88 shipped with a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map, a file that, by design, points back to the original unobfuscated source code. The result: roughly 512,000 lines of TypeScript, sitting on npm, the full internals of Claude Code’s CLI exposed for anyone who knew to look.Anthropic confirmed it quickly, and admitted it was a human error in the release pipeline, not a breach. They began issuing DMCA takedowns the same day, but the internet had already moved, mirrors appeared on GitHub within hours, and researchers were pulling it apart in real…
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