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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!

Gergely Orosz

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

31 Mar

The repo: github.com/instructkr/c... The brilliance: copyright does not protect derived works. Rewriting TypeScript code in Python means copyright no longer applies. The scary thing: it can be done in trivial amount of time, with AI agents. This one was done with Codex.

github.comGitHub - instructkr/claude-code: An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only.An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only. - instructkr/claude-code

tsondo.com

@tsondo.com

No Python port. It's firmly in the TypeScript/Bun ecosystem. Given the scale and the tight coupling to Ink and Bun-specific features like bundle-time dead code elimination, a port would be a major undertaking. Most (all?) of the "rewrote" posts are jokes.

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