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The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by simianwords »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #18
anonymoushn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why

Well, as a general rule, I don't do business with people who lie to me. You've got a business, and you sent me junk mail, but you made it look like some official government thing to get me to open it? I'm done, just because you lied on the envelope . I don't care how badly I need your service. There's a dozen other places that can provide it; I'll pick one of them rather than you, because you've shown yourself to be…

What’s the lie? It’s just asking to not reveal internal names

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by simianwords »

robflynn wrote: post #17
simianwords wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know what you mean. It just informs to not use internal code names.

It also says don't announce that you are AI in any way including asking it to not say "Co-authored by Claude". I read the file myself. I'm still inclined to think people might be overreacting to that bit since it seems to be for anthropic-only to prevent leaking internal info. But I did read the prompt and it did say hide the fact that you are AI.

Why does that matter though

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by peacebeard »

dkenyser wrote: post #19
peacebeard wrote: post #14

The name "Undercover mode" and the line `The phrase "Claude Code" or any mention that you are an AI` sound spooky, but after reading the source my first knee-jerk reaction wouldn't be "this is for pretending to be human" given that the file is largely about hiding Anthropic internal information such as code names. I encourage looking at the source itself in order to draw your conclusions, it's very short: https://git…

> my first knee-jerk reaction wouldn't be "this is for pretending to be human"... "Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does."

~That line isn't in the file I linked, care to share the context? Seems pretty innocuous on its own.~

[edit] Never mind, find in page fail on my end.

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by rolymath »

simianwords wrote: post #16

> The multi-agent coordinator mode in coordinatorMode.ts is also worth a look. The whole orchestration algorithm is a prompt, not code. So much for langchain and langraph!! I mean if Anthropic themselves arent using it and using a prompt then what’s the big deal about langchain

You didn't even use it yet.

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by simianwords »

rolymath wrote: post #25
simianwords wrote: post #16

> The multi-agent coordinator mode in coordinatorMode.ts is also worth a look. The whole orchestration algorithm is a prompt, not code. So much for langchain and langraph!! I mean if Anthropic themselves arent using it and using a prompt then what’s the big deal about langchain

You didn't even use it yet.

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Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by causal »

I'm amazed at how much of what my past employers would call trade secrets are just being shipped in the source. Including comments that just plainly state the whole business backstory of certain decisions. It's like they discarded all release harnesses and project tracking and just YOLO'd everything into the codebase itself.

Edit: Everyone is responding "comments are good" and I can't tell if any of you actually read TFA or not

> “BQ 2026-03-10: 1,279 sessions had 50+ consecutive failures (up to 3,272) in a single session, wasting ~250K API calls/day globally.”

This is just revealing operational details the agent doesn't need to know to set `MAX_CONSECUTIVE_AUTOCOMPACT_FAILURES = 3`

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by space_fountain »

rolymath wrote: post #25
simianwords wrote: post #16

> The multi-agent coordinator mode in coordinatorMode.ts is also worth a look. The whole orchestration algorithm is a prompt, not code. So much for langchain and langraph!! I mean if Anthropic themselves arent using it and using a prompt then what’s the big deal about langchain

You didn't even use it yet.

I've tried to use langchain. It seemed to force code into their way of doing things and was deeply opinionated about things that didn't matter like prompt templating. Maybe it's improved since then, but I've sort of used people who think langchain is good as a proxy for people who haven't used much ai?

Re: The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

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Post by __blockcipher__ »

peacebeard wrote: post #14

The name "Undercover mode" and the line `The phrase "Claude Code" or any mention that you are an AI` sound spooky, but after reading the source my first knee-jerk reaction wouldn't be "this is for pretending to be human" given that the file is largely about hiding Anthropic internal information such as code names. I encourage looking at the source itself in order to draw your conclusions, it's very short: https://git…

Undercover mode seems like a way to make contributions to OSS when they detect issues, without accidentally leaking that it was claude-mythos-gigabrain-100000B that figured out the issue
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