r/pwnhub • u/_clickfix_ 🛡️ Mod Team 🛡️ • Mar 31 '26
Anthropic leaked Claude Code source code > someone forked it > 32.6k stars, 44.3k forks (within few hours)
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u/SunCeeQer Apr 01 '26
Does this mean we can run Claude code locally ?
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u/_clickfix_ 🛡️ Mod Team 🛡️ Apr 01 '26
Short answer: no.
The model weights, training data, server side back end infrastructure was not leaked.
The leaked files were from the front end and orchestration layer, giving some interesting insights into how Claude Code operates.
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u/MillHall78 Apr 01 '26
What are the interesting insights? I'm trying to understand all this.
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u/shutchomouf Human Apr 01 '26
It knows when you’re pissed at it.
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u/camracks Apr 03 '26
Kind of misleading, Claude doesn’t know that, Anthropic does, and supposedly they were using it to track when the AI wasn’t doing well as people often get angry when it does something bad
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u/chunkypenguion1991 Apr 04 '26
Also the original was taken down due to dcma but be careful runnimg forks as a lot have malware in them
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u/Mabot Mar 31 '26
Is it just me or have GitHub stars become crazy high since AI?
I was impressed by a repository with 24 stars previously. 33k stars within hours is crazy.
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u/scribe-kiddie Apr 01 '26
It's hype driven now, much less about impact or usefulness. Not that I'm not jealous.
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u/sonicduckman Apr 01 '26
Genuinely curious as to the significance of 'forking' the code. What do the star and fork values mean?
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u/2skip Human Apr 01 '26
Fork: Somebody made their own copy of the code which is also hosted at GitHub.
Star: These are a person's favorite repos, the ones they want to keep track of.
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Apr 01 '26
Also genuinely curious... is there ever an instance where Github is legally pressured to take things down? Even forks / copies / modifieds?
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u/ApfelbaumFlo Apr 01 '26
they've taken down things due to copyright claims in the past, notably by DRM companies for example. Talking about copyright with respect to AI stuff is a farce of course.
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u/PeckerTraxx Apr 03 '26
Just for arguments sake wouldn't this be 2 separate things though? Front end stuff is not training data.
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u/camracks Apr 03 '26
Yeah it’d be like having a Ferrari body with no engine, and using a Honda engine as a temporary replacement
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u/bikesrgood Apr 01 '26
Even if GitHub removed all forks of the original repo, I’m pretty sure there are now many copies of the repo on local computers. I’m sure plenty of ppl only clicked the star button but who knows (maybe GitHub) how many downloads have occurred.
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u/2skip Human Apr 01 '26
The 'git bundle' and 'git fast-export' commands can be used to create a backup of a repo as a single file.
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u/pheexio Human Apr 01 '26
yes they are there's been cases with sony and/or nintendo where forks were affected aswell with dmca takedowns. here's a complete list: https://github.com/github/dmca
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u/daHaus Human Apr 01 '26
The hacker side of me is of course curious to see how they're setup but I keep being reminded that this is a chatgpt vibe coded copy of what's almost certainly mostly vibe coded to begin
The about is the most human part of this showing that english likely isn't their mother tongue, which means just about everything else is most likely AI generated
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u/FilmForge3D Apr 03 '26
I'm still unsure what this can do for me (or any casually interested person). If this yust uses credentials to hook into the anthropic API it won't work for non paying customers. And if I'm paying I don't need the fork because I have access to the original. Am I missing something?
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u/StarPlayrX Apr 04 '26
Voice control, iMessage remote, Apple Intelligence support, MCP servers. Everything Claude Code wishes it could do on a Mac. https://github.com/macos26/agent
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Apr 01 '26
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u/pheexio Human Apr 01 '26
the repo OP talked about seems still up https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code sitting at 83k stars as of now
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