Claw Code: GitHub's Fastest Project Surges to 100,000 Stars in One Day After Claude Code Leak

According to 1M AI News, less than 24 hours after the source code of Claude Code was leaked, a project named Claw Code accumulated over 100,000 stars on GitHub at a record pace, claiming to be the fastest repository in GitHub history to reach this milestone. As of the time of publication, the project has received 124,000 stars and 102,000 forks. Unlike the thousands of repositories that directly copied the leaked source code, Claw Code’s approach was to look at the architecture without copying the code, completely re-implementing it from scratch, a process known in engineering and legal terms as ‘clean-room implementation.’ The project’s author, Sigrid Jin, recounted the experience in the README: At 4 AM on March 31, the leak news exploded his phone notifications, and his girlfriend in South Korea worried that ‘just having these codes on the computer could pose legal risks.’ He made a decision that an engineer under pressure would make: to sit down and rewrite the core functionalities from scratch in Python before dawn and push it to GitHub. The entire process was assisted by the AI coding workflow tool oh-my-codex (OmX) developed by Yeachan Heo. This was key to Claw Code not being taken down by Anthropic under DMCA. Anthropic issued copyright protection notices to 8,100 repositories that directly mirrored the leaked source code, but Claw Code’s codebase does not contain a single line of original TypeScript; it was first rewritten in Python and later transitioned to Rust, with 92.9% of the codebase currently in Rust. The project includes 7 Rust crates covering API clients, runtime state management, MCP orchestration, tool execution frameworks, plugin systems, command systems, and interactive CLI. Sigrid Jin is not an unknown developer; The Wall Street Journal reported on March 21 that he is one of the most active heavy users of Claude Code globally, having used 25 billion Claude Code tokens alone last year, and he even flew to San Francisco to attend the one-year anniversary celebration of Claude Code. Previously, the fastest project to reach 100,000 stars on GitHub was reported to be OpenClaw, which took several weeks. Claw Code compressed this time to less than a day, but GitHub does not publish official growth rankings; this record comes from the project’s self-description and quotes from several tech media outlets. Notably, the ratio of forks (102,000) to stars (124,000) for this project exceeds 80%, far higher than the normal open-source project level of 10%-20%, indicating that these stars are more driven by the leak event rather than the project’s inherent product usage.