Please consider making claude-code fully open source
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — bcherny
Activity 3 comments · opened Mar 1, 2025 · closed Mar 2, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bcherny, collaborator)
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Rationale:
- it will greatly speed up claude-code development and releases
- looking at the positive reception
- looking at the number of issues
- there is little to none confidential information/property on the client side
- or can be moved server side
- it will greatly increase claude-code adoption
- more features = better product = more users
- it will be good for anthropic (user-base, api usage, PR)
- it will significantly reduce any ai-suspicion/ai-anxious behaviour
Thank you for your consideration, and thank you kindly for initially releasing this valuable project.
3 Comments
We're exploring our options here. Thanks for the feedback!
this might be an interesting open source alternative
https://opencode.ai/
though it does use separate directory structures
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