Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code's source code in a release, then overcorrected with a mass DMCA takedown hitting 8,100 repos including legitimate forks.
A software engineer discovered Anthropic accidentally included Claude Code's proprietary source code in a recent release. Anthropic issued a DMCA takedown targeting repositories sharing the code, but the notice swept up 8,100 repositories — including legitimate forks of Anthropic's own public Claude Code repo. Anthropic's head of Claude Code Boris Cherny acknowledged the error and retracted all but one repo and 96 forks. GitHub restored access to the incorrectly flagged repositories after the retraction.
The accidental leak gave engineers a rare look at how Anthropic structures the LLM orchestration layer inside Claude Code. Even though Anthropic clawed back most repos, the code circulated long enough to be analyzed. More practically: if your repo got hit by the DMCA sweep, GitHub has already restored access — no action needed on your end.
Search GitHub for any forks of the Anthropic Claude Code repo you've starred or contributed to — verify your access is restored and check if any of your own repos were incorrectly targeted.
Go to github.com/anthropics/claude-code and check the fork count and fork network
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