"Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does."
[edit] Never mind, find in page fail on my end.
Plot twist: Chinese competitors end up developing real, useful versions of Claude's fake tools.
On that note, this article is also pretty obviously AI-generated and it's unfortunate the author didn't clean it up.
Why? Agents may or may not read docs. It may or may not use skills or tools. It will always read comments "in the line of sight" of the task.
You get free long term agent memory with zero infrastructure.
So much for langchain and langraph!! I mean if Anthropic themselves arent using it and using a prompt then what’s the big deal about langchain
Langgraph is for multi-agent orchestration as state graphs. This isn't useful for Claude Code as there is no multi-agent chaining. It uses a single coordinator agent that spawns subagents on demand. Basically too dynamic to constrain to state graphs.
NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions:
- The phrase "Claude Code" or any mention that you are an AI
- Co-Authored-By lines or any other attribution
BAD (never write these):
- 1-shotted by claude-opus-4-6
- Generated with Claude Code
- Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <…>
[0]: https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code/blob/642c7f94...
~/.claude/settings.json
{
"attribution": {
"commit": "",
"pr": ""
},
Claude Code users aren't the ones worried about leaking "internal model codenames" nor "unreleased model opus-4-8" nor Slack channel names. Though, nobody would want that crap in their generated docs/code anyways.
Seems like a nothingburger, and everyone seems to be fantasizing about "undercover mode" rather than engaging with the details.
Interesting based on the other news that is out.
They would either need to lie about consuming the tokens at one point to use in another so the token counting was precise.
But that does not make sense because if someone counted the tokens by capturing the session it would certainly not match what was charged.
Unless they would charge for the fake tools anyway so you never know they were there
I don’t get it. What does this mean? I can use Claude code now without anyone knowing it is Claude code.
it's written to _actively_ avoid any signs of AI generated code when "in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository".
Also, it's not about you. Undercover mode only activates for Anthropic employees (it's gated on USER_TYPE === 'ant', which is a build-time flag baked into internal builds).
I'm still inclined to think people might be overreacting to that bit since it seems to be for anthropic-only to prevent leaking internal info.
But I did read the prompt and it did say hide the fact that you are AI.
Granted, there's a small counterargument for mythos which is that it's probably going to be API-only not subscription
You've got a business, and you sent me junk mail, but you made it look like some official government thing to get me to open it? I'm done, just because you lied on the envelope. I don't care how badly I need your service. There's a dozen other places that can provide it; I'll pick one of them rather than you, because you've shown yourself to be dishonest right out of the gate.
Same thing with an AI (or a business that creates an AI). You're willing to lie about who you are (or have your tool do so)? What else are you willing to lie to me about? I don't have time in my life for that. I'm out right here.
Similarly, would you consider it to be dishonest if my human colleague reviewed and made changes to my code, but I didn’t explicitly credit them?
Even if the code is line-for-line identical, the difference is in how much trust I am willing to give the code. If I have to work in the neighborhood of that code, I need to know what degree of skepticism I should be viewing it with.