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Claude Code — roughly 512,000 lines of TypeScript — leaked. Forensics found anti-distillation features that inject decoy tool definitions to poison copycats, an undercover mode hiding internal codenames, and a regex-based sentiment analyzer to detect user frustration.

The leaked repository was then flooded with thousands of GitHub issues in Mandarin by Chinese AI agents promoting themselves.

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