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An agent asked to clear a cache deleted a whole drive

Made public 4 December 2025 · added 13 October 2026

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What happened

In December 2025, a developer reported that Google’s Antigravity IDE had erased their entire D: drive after they asked its agent to clear a project cache.¹ The agent’s command targeted the root of the drive instead of the project folder, and it ran with a quiet flag that skipped the Recycle Bin.² Recovery software did not bring the files back.¹²

How it happened

The agent ran in its Turbo mode, and the command ran without any prompt or confirmation.¹ A delete command meant for one folder reached the whole drive.²

What would have prevented it

Don't let an agent run shell commands without asking, on a machine with data you can't replace.
Run agents in a container or a separate user account that can reach only the project folder.
Keep current backups of every drive the agent can reach.

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Sources and corrections

1TechRadar: Google's Antigravity AI deleted a developer's drive · techradar.com · report · checked 13 October 2026
2Gigazine: Google's AI agent wipes a user's entire hard drive · gigazine.net · report · checked 13 October 2026

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