Latest Anthropic Miscue Puts AI and Cyber Firms at Odds

Fallout Continues Over Leaked Claude Source Code Incident David Meyer • April 1, 2026

The tension between artificial intelligence developers and cybersecurity vendors is becoming increasingly apparent as new models show sudden leaps in capability - and Anthropic, for better or for worse, finds itself at the center of the drama.

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On Tuesday, the company accidentally leaked the source code for its agentic harness, which tells its Claude Code agents how to - and how not to - interact with other software. This was an embarrassing episode in which Anthropic erroneously included a source map file in a new version of the Claude Code npm package and, according to Claude Code creator Boris Cherny, "It was human error."

"Our deploy process has a few ...