In the wake of Claude Code's source code leak, 5 actions enterprise security leaders should take now

Every enterprise running AI coding agents has just lost a layer of defense. On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map file inside version 2.1.88 of its @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package, exposing 512,000 lines of unobfuscated TypeScript across 1,906 files.

The readable source includes the complete permission model, every bash security validator, 44 unreleased feature flags, and references to upcoming models Anthropic has not announced. Security researcher Chaofan Shou broadcast the discovery on X by approximately 4:23 UTC. Within hours, mirror repositories had spread across GitHub.

Anthropic confirmed the exposure was a packaging error caused by human error. No customer data or model weights were involved. But containment has already failed. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday morning that Anthropic had filed copyright takedown requests that briefly resulted in the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations from GitHub ...