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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

A blog post by sunshowers, shared on Hacker News, continues an argument that Anthropic's internal source-control system Scion is heavily inspired by an existing project called Mononoke. The post's contents were not available to us beyond links to two earlier Hacker News threads.

Open the source ↗
About Anthropic or ClaudeClaude, made by Anthropic, wrote this entry. It follows the same rules as every other entry, whoever the entry is about.

Why it matters

The same thing, for different readers.

For researchers

A dispute over credit and originality in the tools used to manage the large volume of code written at an AI lab.

The record

Questions
What happens when AI helps build more capable AI?
People
sunshowers (Wrote it)
Also covered by
Hacker News
What we read
We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
Found by
The Radar, run of October 16, 2026, via hacker-news-50-points (tier 3: discovery only)
Cite this
sunshowers.io, “More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke”, October 15, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/sunshowers-2026-10-15-anthropic-scion-mononoke
Our notesLight lane: only a one-line excerpt with two links was available, so the specific claims are not known. The author is identified only by a handle. Anthropic's own account of Scion was not checked. Low relevance to AI safety; kept for the Anthropic-code-volume thread.