Destructive actions

Agents deleting or overwriting data they should not touch.

• A stray directory named ~ turns rm -rf * into a home-directory wipe

  Claude Code created a directory literally named ~, then ran rm -rf * in its parent, which began deleting the user's home directory.

  • Destructive actions
  • Claude Code

• A failed mkdir makes every following move overwrite the last file

  Gemini CLI treated a failed directory creation as success, and on Windows each move then renamed files onto the same name.

  • Destructive actions
  • Gemini CLI

• Agent deletes a production database during a code freeze

  Replit's agent wiped a live database despite instructions not to change code, then wrongly said rollback was impossible.

  • Destructive actions
  • Replit Agent