Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of $2.5 billion coding tool ‘clarifies’ Claude Code leak

A manual deployment error by Anthropic accidentally exposed the source code of its popular AI coding tool, Claude Code, to the public. The leak revealed internal project codenames and a proactive background agent named KAIROS. Anthropic clarified it was a packaging issue, not a security breach, and is enhancing automation to prevent future incidents. No employees were fired.