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Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?
4 points by matt3210 •                         
I’d be interested in examining it. How about codex?
Retro_Dev •                         
It's probably easier to look at the source code than try to decompile it: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
armcat •                         
There is no actual Claude Code source code in there, if you actually look in the repo.
robthebrew •                         
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43217357
matt3210 •                         
Too old, probably no mainline code lines in there
cinntaile •                         
You'll get blocked real quick. I once noticed it was thinking in a different language than the one we were communicating in, when I asked about it the conversation was immediately blocked.
matt3210 •                         
Have codex run claude code and decompile
haute_cuisine •                         
What a paradox. Somehow anthropic don't like distillation and decompiling and ban all who try instantly.
armcat •                         
For Codex there is no need to decompile because unlike Claude Code, Codex is open source [1] and written in Rust.

There are lot of other amazing open source agent harnesses like OpenCode [2] and Pi [3].

[1] https://github.com/openai/codex

[2] https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

[3] https://github.com/earendil-works/pi

matt3210 •                         
Yeah but I wanna see Claude code source. Maybe I’ll use codex to decompile Claude code if I can’t find it done already
dudewhocodes •                         
Only the Codex terminal agent is open source, the Codex GUI app is still closed AFAIK.