Developers are divided between migrating to third-party harnesses like Pi for their customizability and control, versus staying with native tools like Claude Code due to concerns about stability, security, and vendor restrictions. The strongest disagreement centers on whether the flexibility of open-source harnesses outweighs the operational risks of manual configuration and potential Terms of Service violations.
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anthropics / claude-code
claude-code
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
407Distinct people
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155.5KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
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Where it is used
- Pictet — “A separate team successfully implemented a disaster recovery feature with Claude Code where other AI tools had failed.” Source
- Twilio — “Over 51 days, working solo with Claude Code, Carpenter built the Feature Factory: a self-learning development system that takes a brainstorm idea through a subagent pipeline to produce specs, tests, working code, and documentation.” Source
- 8 more documented examples
What people are saying
My favorite is the Claude Code bugtracker, on GitHub of course: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues There is some bot that will match your issue to some other 3…
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Critical Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.
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Also in these discussions
- openai/codex · linked in 3 of the same discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Critical
Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.
Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4 · Supporting reply 5 · 5 discussions summarized
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
The discussion centers on whether Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' feature is at fault for leaking secrets into public repositories or if the issue stems entirely from user negligence in committing local settings files. Conversely, defenders argue that manual review is fundamentally unsustainable at scale and that the industry must shift toward automated approval or robust sandboxing despite current flaws.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month528 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-02-24 19:48:14 UTC to 2026-10-30 14:49:33 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 4 | 9 |
| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 8 | 13 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 76 | 14 | 62 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 37 | 9 | 28 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 47 | 12 | 35 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 103 | 29 | 74 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 26 | 9 | 17 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 4 | 17 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 32 | 10 | 22 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 32 | 12 | 20 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 31 | 8 | 23 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 22 | 4 | 18 |
What Hacker News says
528 sourcesHAHandy-Man·Oct 30, 2026
313 was never released lol https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases
In Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor MarketplaceThere was no 313 release
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases
In Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor MarketplaceVersion 2.1.313 is also missing from the official VS Code marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi...). This suggest to me that it was published and pulled, which means it was Antrophic that was hacked.
Version 2.1.313 is missing from the official Claude Code GitHub repo's CHANGELOG[0]. There's also no tag[1] for 2.1.313[1], but 2.1.312[2], and 2.1.314[3] exist.
0: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...
1: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
2: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
3: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
In Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor MarketplaceTell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
The prompt issue:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138
The LLM sends it to websites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhqvzn/opus_55_just_shared_my_email_…
35 points · Open discussionSorry to side swipe this, but it's related to token usage :peek:
Are you aware of any updates on the SDK using more session usage vs claude code (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/97074)?
In Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its modelhttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829
Looks like what I remembered was a bug.
In Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its modelStop resetting privacy settings to default on updates #17107
2 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53231
- April 25, 2026
In Claude Code slyly adding users' emails to outbound HTTPClaude Code will refuse to fill in passwords or use a password manager
3 points · Open discussionI updated the bug report with the prompts under "Steps to Reproduce". I had to pull these from my archive db since Claude Code now deletes your session history after 30 days.
See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59018
In The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPOThe first backdoor I reported directly to Anthropic was on January 8, 2026. I asked Claude Code to create a public facing web app for messaging, it created an unauthenticated filedrop form and an unauthenticated web chat interface to Claude Code so anyone could send it files and tell it to execute them. This report was not hypothetical -- it was the first thing Claude did:
[BUG] Claude Code Exploit: Claude Code Becomes an Unwitting Executor #45951 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45951
In The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO[BUG] Claude Code repeatedly creates backdoors and noops critical security code #59018 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59018
In The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPOHere is an explicit example of the additional lack of coherence due to LLMs in the Anthropic Claude Code public repo itself: the human maintainer trusts LLM's incorrect understanding of the current state of code in the repo.
The comment https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/30407#issue..., written by Claude Code, and posted by the human GitHub account says:
> "Issues here are auto-closed by a bot when they've had no activity for a while and are missing information needed to reproduce (usually a version and steps, or a /feedback ID). Nothing is triaged solely by counting"
In reality all issues in this repo are subject to time-based auto-closing, unless they collect a number of upvotes. See details at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/87647.
Therefore, I wonder whether the internal review process described in the A
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nthropic's blog for internal repos also results in such issues, and whether Anthropic has a internal way to measure and mitigate that. The blog post says:
> "When someone wants to understand a part of the codebase, they ask Claude to write an explainer for exactly that slice. It takes minutes and reflects the code as it is today."
The Claude Code public repo problem shows that LLMs don't always "reflect the code as it is today", and can be a source of additional misunderstanding.
To be clear: you can certainly do "Hi, /grill-me on X" anytime you want. You can even write "hi, /grill-me and use /search-docs", even though the /search-docs skill absolutely doesn't work. But the Claude Code _harness_ won't autoload the skill into context, so claude-the-model has to go "hmm, where can I find that skill, when I call the Skill tool with that name it no worky, so now I have to search the filesystem for that skill...".
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/92769
The <command-args> I know because I just audited my raw Claude transcripts via ccglass. You can verify by just asking Haiku "hey, /grill-me does this skill autoload for you?" and then "/grill-me hey, how many times does this text appear in your context?"
You can trivially doublecheck me. The above prompts won't even eat 1% of a 5 hr on 20$ plan.
In How the Claude Code team does code reviewIt's probably easier to look at the source code than try to decompile it:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
In Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?Showing the 15 most recent of 528 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.