Can't be blocked. The Python version of Claude Code after a major overhaul can reach 100,000 stars on GitHub the fastest. Clone it while you can.

Still alive!

Two days have passed. The Claude Code source code cloning project not only survives but has also become the fastest project to reach 100,000 stars in history.

It's terrifying. The speed of gaining stars is even more astonishing than that of OpenClaw before. It's so popular that even the author's mother came out to urge him to apply for the Guinness World Record.

Who could have thought that under the all - out legal offensive from Anthropic, this project, which exceeded 50,000 stars just two hours after its release, is still standing firm until now.

The reason... It all depends on Sigrid Jin's brilliant move of "shedding the golden cicada's shell" during the "open - source carnival" night.

Two people, ten OpenClaw accounts, and one Macbook. They replaced the original TypeScript code with Python and managed to re - package Claude Code overnight.

Unexpectedly, even when Claude Code's secrets were completely exposed, there was someone so calm and had made preparations in advance (doge).

To be honest, this might really be attributed to his Korean girlfriend.

Overnight extreme re - packaging

At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Sigrid Jin was woken up by the vibration of his phone. The news of Claude Code's leakage had gone viral.

It all started with a post by a Chinese post - 2000s young man Chaofan Shou. He found that the 512,000 - line source code of Claude Code was accidentally made public, including the tool's operating mechanism and new feature test content.

Within a few hours, countless people cloned the source code of Claude Code, and the number of copies soared.

This is quite ironic. All along, the industry has been accused of using public content to train models, and Anthropic has always promoted "security commitment" as a selling point.

Now, the situation has reversed. Claude Code has been thoroughly investigated by the community.

In response, Anthropic explained that this leakage was due to human error, not a security vulnerability. "We are implementing new measures to prevent similar situations from happening again."

Meanwhile, a large - scale 'cat - and - mouse game' has officially begun.

Anthropic picked up the legal weapon and requested GitHub to take down the relevant repositories through DMCA.

The speed and intensity were so high that it seemed like they had made a pre - plan in advance. Even many projects unrelated to the Claude Code source code were affected.

AI executive Daniel San was one of the victims. After receiving a warning email from GitHub, he felt wronged and said that he was using a fork of Anthropic's own public repository.

Peter, the father of the lobster, who was following the drama closely, immediately rushed to the scene and joked that all of Anthropic's take - down requests were from an automatic deletion program Vibe Coding.

You know, there was indeed news that Anthropic even uses Claude to write code for its legal team.

However, in this all - out attack, a project named claw - code survived and spread like a virus, growing much faster than OpenClaw.

Anthropic couldn't have missed this emerging project. It exceeded 50,000 stars two hours after its release and 100,000 stars within a day, and it's still going strong.

But they have never contacted the author of this project.

"It's quite unexpected that neither Anthropic nor GitHub has contacted us so far," Jin said in an interview with Business Insider.

All of this was possible because Sigrid Jin took an unconventional approach from the start.

Let's rewind to Tuesday morning. Like all the developers following the drama, Jin was extremely excited when he saw the leakage of Claude Code's source code.

Fortunately, his Korean girlfriend was cautious and advised him to be careful, saying that even just "hoarding" this code might get him involved in a lawsuit with Anthropic.

That's what pushed this 25 - year - old Columbia University student to do something that seems like a stroke of genius in hindsight —

Two people, 10 OpenClaw accounts, and one Macbook Pro. They completely rewrote the source code from scratch using Python.

Codex played a great role. The whole process was orchestrated end - to - end by the oh - my - codex (OmX) workflow. In simple terms, it's about automating things by leveraging OpenAI Codex.

The final Python version has the same architectural logic as Claude Code, but there isn't a single line of the original source code.

It only took a few hours from being woken up in the middle of the night to the release. It was still dark outside.

Now it has been proven that this "shedding the golden cicada's shell" move has become Claw Code's get - out - of - jail - free card, literally exploiting a bug and directly evading all the damage judgments from Anthropic's legal offensive.

As of publication, Jin's replicated Claw Code on GitHub has amassed over 110,000 stars and 100,000 forks.

He said that within just one day, 5,000 people joined the Discord group.

Now, Jin is rushing to promote the Rust rewritten version.

He said that this is the complete form of the project.

Elon Musk may be the biggest beneficiary

By the way, there was a very dramatic little episode in the middle of this story.

Jin posted a message to thank Elon Musk, saying that xAI gave him a lot of Grok credits, which greatly helped with the rewrite of Claw Code.

"I'm super excited to see the subsequent results you come up with!" Umesh Khanna from xAI suddenly appeared in the comment section and replied like this.

Well, it's really true that those who watch the drama don't think it's too big of a deal.

It's bad enough that Claude Code was leaked, and xAI is adding fuel to the fire, helping developers with the quick porting, as if they're afraid that Anthropic will take down the project with just one email.

It seems that fate is on Elon Musk's side.

You couldn't even dream up this plot. Who would have thought that just when Grok was far behind in programming and most of the co - founding team had left, suddenly 510,000 lines of Claude Code source code appeared.

And you know, there are now two top talents from Cursor in the xAI team, who were recruited not long ago...

It seems that Grok Code is really within reach now (doge).

GitHub link: https://github.com/instructkr/claw - code

Reference links:

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/claude - code - leak - what - happened - recreated - python - features - revealed - 2026 - 4

[2]https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic - races - to - contain - leak - of - code - behind - claude - ai - agent - 4bc5acc7

[3]https://x.com/steipete/status/2039156882041123035

This article is from the WeChat official account "QbitAI", author: Jay. Republished by 36Kr with authorization.