Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
Perhaps the most discussed technical detail is the “Undercover Mode.” This feature reveals that Anthropic uses Claude Code for “stealth” contributions to public open-source repositories.
The system prompt discovered in the leak explicitly warns the model: “You are operating UNDERCOVER… Your commit messages… MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal information. Do not blow your cover.”
Laws should have been put in place years ago to make it so that AI usage needs to be explicitly declared.