Anthropic issued a DMCA notice to GitHub to remove a repository that contained leaked Claude Code client source code. The notice also listed nearly one hundred forks of that repository. GitHub’s automated processing interpreted the request as covering a broader network of about 8,100 similar forks, many of which were legitimate copies of Anthropic’s official public Claude Code repository. The over‑broad takedowns sparked backlash from developers, prompting Anthropic to ask GitHub to limit the removals to the specifically named URLs and to restore the other repositories. Read more →