Claw Code Hits 100K GitHub Stars in One Day: Claude Code 510K-Line Source Leak Spawns Fastest-Growing Repo in History

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Anthropic accidentally shipped 510,000 lines of TypeScript source maps with Claude Code v2.1.88 on npm via a missing .npmignore. The community immediately created Claw Code, a Rust rewrite that hit 50K stars in 2 hours and 100K in one day — the fastest repo in GitHub history to reach that milestone. Currently #1 on GitHub trending, it represents both a major security incident and a paradigm shift in open-source coding agent tooling.