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Open-agent-SDK

Claude Code's internals, extracted and open-sourced

Details

External ID
47609881
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Open-agent-SDK
Website domain
github.com
Launched
April 2, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
7
Upvotes percentile
0.38817480719794345
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Claude Code's source map leaked last month. Instead of just reading it, I fed the entire source into Claude Code itself and asked it to extract the core agent loop logic.The result: open-agent-sdk — a drop-in replacement for claude-agent-sdk that's fully open source and doesn't spawn a CLI subprocess.Why this matters if you've built with claude-agent-sdk:claude-agent-sdk is just a thin wrapper around the Claude Code binary. It works, but it's a black box — when something breaks, you're stuck.Every query creates a new Claude Code process. That's fine on a laptop, not fine when you're running thousands of concurrent agents in the cloud.What open-agent-sdk does differently:Pure function calls, no CLI process spawning — cloud-native from day one Fully compatible interface with claude-agent-sdk — swap the package name, doneMIT licensed — fork it, patch it, make it yours→ https://github.com/codeany-ai/open-agent-sdk-typescript

Enrichment

Theme
Claude integrations and coding agents
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
sdk for building ai agents like claude code
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes The author explicitly created this by prompting Claude with leaked source maps to generate an agent execution loop in TypeScript without subprocess overhead.

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