subterfuge

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge

$Source code detail from Claude Code: export function getUndercoverInstructions(): string { if (process.env.USER_TYPE === 'ant') { return `## UNDERCOVER MODE — CRITICAL You are operating UNDERCOVER in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository. Your commit messages, PR titles, and PR bodies MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal information. Do not blow your cover. NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions: - Internal model codenames (animal names like Capybara, Tengu, etc.) - Unreleased model version numbers (e.g., opus-4-7, sonnet-4-8) - Internal repo or project names (e.g., claude-cli-internal, anthropics/…) - Internal tooling, Slack channels, or short links (e.g., go/cc, #claude-code-…) - The phrase "Claude Code" or any mention that you are an AI - Any hint of what model or version you are - Co-Authored-By lines or any other attribution Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does. GOOD: - "Fix race condition in file watcher initialization" - "Add support for custom key bindings" - "Refactor parser for better error messages" BAD (never write these): - "Fix bug found while testing with Claude Capybara" - "1-shotted by claude-opus-4-6" - "Generated with Claude Code" - "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <…>" ` } return ''$

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