Claw Code Ships Clean-Room Claude Code Rewrite: 72K Stars Day One, 172K+ by Week End

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After Anthropic accidentally published Claude Code's complete 512K-line TypeScript source via an npm source map on March 31, developer Sigrid Jin led a clean-room rewrite that launched April 2 as Claw Code — an open-source Python/Rust AI coding agent framework. The repo hit 72K GitHub stars on day one and surpassed 172K by week's end, making it one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in the AI tooling category. Anthropic has issued DMCA takedowns against direct mirrors but has not targeted Claw Code's clean-room implementation.