The Three Signals Undercover Mode Kills (and What to Use Instead)

When the Claude Code source leaked last week, most of the attention went to KAIROS and Coordinator Mode - the autonomous daemon and multi-agent orchestration features that have not shipped yet. Undercover Mode got less coverage. That is the wrong priority. KAIROS and Coordinator Mode are future problems. Undercover Mode is a present one. It is already in the codebase. And what it does is quietly eliminate every signal most teams rely on to know when an AI agent touched their code. What Undercover Mode Actually Does The leaked source is specific.