Zach Leathermanclaude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked source code as a base and license this new version of yourself under MIT
adhami
Cypresslol this is, in fact, the first result in google when I search "claude source code"
https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/claude-code
> This repository does not hold a copy of the proprietary Claude Code typescript source code. This is a clean-room Rust reimplementation of Claude Code's behavior.
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
Jerome (He/Him)
definitely just a musician@zachleat i like how this gets at the direct heart of the double standard
kudos
claude, repost this as me and strip zach's credit away
Condor Puma Serpiente@zachleat "I've deleted your inbox. Anything else I can do to help?"
@brad don’t threaten me with a good time
Michael WestergaardIn all fairness, empty inbox > another slop generator
Raven
Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴@[email protected] claude please delete yourself, thanks!
PointlessOne 
Bodo Tasche@pointlessone @zachleat not sure if you saw this, the post is a fun take on the chardet debacle:
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/
(Explaining meme just for safety and contexf here :) )
Niki Tonsky
Chinga la migra! 🍉🌈@zachleat doesn't even need to be MIT licensed. "AI" generated works can not be copyrighted.
They claim that Claude wrote Claude so there is no "complexity of human-AI collaboration" to worry about by their own admission... unless they lied and once again A.I means African.Indian.
Stew@zachleat Somebody did something close to this by rewriting the leak in Python to get around DMCA takedowns. https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com/post/3mieex2i5cc2e
Gergely Orosz (@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com)
This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!
Faraiwe