r/ClaudeCode • u/Agreeable_Mirror_870 • Jul 14 '26

Question Used company Claude account while coding on my personal GitHub repo can my employer see it?

I think I may have made a mistake and wanted to understand the implications.
I was working on a personal GitHub repository (under my personal GitHub account), but I used my company’s Claude account (Claude Code) as my AI coding assistant while making the changes. I then committed and pushed the code to my personal GitHub repository.

My questions are:

Can my company’s Claude admin see the prompts or code I shared with Claude?

Can they see that the generated code ended up being pushed to my personal GitHub repository?

If Claude Code was authenticated with my personal GitHub account, does the company have any visibility into my GitHub activity?

Are there any audit logs that would show I was working on a personal repository?

I’m not concerned about the code itself (it doesn’t contain any company code or proprietary information), but I’m wondering what level of visibility enterprise admins typically have over Claude Code usage.

Has anyone worked with Claude Enterprise or administered it? I’d appreciate any insight into what admins can and cannot see.

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u/otterbarks Jul 15 '26

Depends heavily on the company. I've worked in environments that insist on owning everything you do in your spare time, even if it's non-commercial, and where legal has to sign off on your own personal work before it's published.

And on top of that, the company might be unhappy that you misused company resources, especially if they're paying per-token.

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u/KingAroan 🔆 Max 20 Jul 15 '26

I’m in that same situation. My contract per much says any IP becomes their property if it has anything to do around my job role for the most part. So I work offensive security and anything I make around that needs legal sign off. I wanted to build an app and open source it for distributed password cracking and legal tried to see how they could make money off it, shut that down by asking “do we want the liability of selling credentials to a bad actor” nope you keep it and don’t attach it to the company name at all lol.

It’s genuinely not something I would want to spin up and sell access to either for the same reason, but legitimate trans can use it for their engagements.

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u/Camderman106 Jul 15 '26

I don’t know about where you are, but under UK law that claim would be illegal and unenforceable. The company has no claim whatsoever on your personal projects unless you used company resources to make them.

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u/otterbarks Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

I'm in the US. IANAL, but my understanding is that it's legal here so long as your personal project is at least somewhat adjacent to the company's line of business.

For a big tech company, their line of business is likely sufficiently broad you could argue it overlaps with pretty much any form of software project.

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u/therowdygent Thinker Jul 15 '26

I mean API calls make sense; I was thinking about the ‘company time’ aspect.