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@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-04-10 13:20:01

As if by magic after asking the other day someone made a basic git based dependency / packager thing and its delightfully minimal.
alnewkirk.com/projects/git-from

Git From: Git Repositories as a Module System – Al Newkirk
Every Git repository is already a package. The only thing missing is an installer that respects "I only want a slice of this."

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-01 15:15:42

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.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

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…