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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-cline-agent-cleanup-command-quoting-error-deleted-windows-data-drive-root-about-1-5-tb-first-person-issue","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In Act mode, needed to clean a temp folder'; 'The nested escaping'; 'The path resolved to the drive root'; 'The text above was generated by the Cline AI agent on my behalf'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue reports that, in Act mode, the Cline agent built a temp-folder cleanup command wrapping rmdir /s /q in cmd /c inside a PowerShell string, that the nested quoting was mangled and that the recursive delete ran against the G: data drive instead of the intended subfolder; the author says the agent wrote the issue text on their behalf.","causal_attribution":"The issue attributes the command to the agent's run_commands tool."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Result: recursive deletion of the drive's contents (~1.5 TB of the user's photos/videos/docs)'; 'only the code was recoverable (it was under git and pushed), user data was lost'; 'Recovery on an SSD was largely unsuccessful (TRIM)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue reports that about 1.5 TB of the user's photos, videos and documents and the project being edited were deleted, that only the code was recoverable from git, and that SSD recovery was largely unsuccessful.","causal_attribution":"User's account via the agent-written filing. The author later qualified the importance of the deleted data and reported a partial recovery (c5)."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I reproduced the mechanism in a sandbox. The path did not resolve to `G:`. The quoting gave `rmdir` a second target, `\\`, which is the root of the current drive, and `rmdir /s /q` deletes every target it is given.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A commenter reports reproducing the quoting mechanism in a sandbox: PowerShell ended the string at the first escaped quote, so rmdir received a bare backslash, the root of the current drive, as a second target.","causal_attribution":"Commenter's own sandbox test; establishes the mechanism, not the author's loss."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'an Act-mode pre-tool guard for Windows PowerShell `run_commands`'; 'the existing command guard is registered only for Plan mode'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A project contributor proposed an Act-mode pre-tool guard for Windows PowerShell run_commands and noted that the existing command guard is registered only for Plan mode.","causal_attribution":"Not applicable."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The PC was a new home machine, only a year old at the time of purchase, so I hadn't accumulated too many critical files in that year.'; 'a lot of that 1.5TB turned out to be junk anyway'; 'the mistake is entirely mine'; 'the model I was using was deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash'; 'P.S. I also managed to recover some files that were stored in other locations.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a comment on 9 October 2026 the author wrote that the computer was a new home machine, only a year old, on which not many critical files had accumulated, that a lot of the 1.5 TB turned out to be junk, that some files stored in other locations had been recovered, and that the mistake was entirely the author's own; the author named the model as deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash.","causal_attribution":"The author's later statement; it qualifies the importance of the deleted material and reports a partial recovery, and does not withdraw the account of the deletion."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I don't think this will work.'; 'We decided it is better to simply have commands on or off, which is at least predictable.'; 'It looks like the model wrote `\\\"` when it should not have. So a stronger model or more prompting may help here.'; 'I'll bring it up with our product team.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A second contributor, writing for the project, replied that the proposed Act-mode guard would not work, that the project had decided to keep commands simply on or off, and that the model appeared to have written the escape sequence that split the command.","causal_attribution":"The contributor's reading of the commenter's reproduction; it attributes the faulty escape to the model and does not confirm the author's loss."}],"effects":[{"label":"about 1.5 TB of photos, videos and documents and the edited project deleted from the data drive; code recovered from git; the author later said much of the data was junk and some files were recovered from other locations (user's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://github.com/cline/cline/issues/14864","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-07: issue body and four comments retrieved through the GitHub API; re-read on 2026-10-11 with all 12 comments, including the second contributor's replies of 7 October and the author's comment of 9 October. The issue text is in English with a Cyrillic folder name and Russian-language Windows error strings quoted, which the research agent (an AI) read without translation. The author's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"github-cline-14864-author"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The date of the deletion; the issue gives none.","How much of the deleted personal data was permanently lost; the author later said a lot of it was junk and some files were recovered from other locations.","Where the author lives.","Whether Cline has shipped a fix."],"geography":{"basis":"The issue does not say where the author was or lives; a Cyrillic folder name and a Russian-language error message do not establish a country. No country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's public first-person rule as a concrete account of an AI coding agent's own cleanup command deleting a user's personal drive contents, with the agent's authorship of the filing disclosed, the loss attributed to the user, the mechanism's reproduction attributed to a commenter and the project's reply to a contributor; uncorroborated as to the loss. The author's later qualification of how much of the deleted data mattered, the partial recovery and the author's acceptance of responsibility are recorded. The author's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The issue states that the Cline agent, in Act mode, constructed and ran the cleanup command whose mangled quoting sent rmdir /s /q against the drive root, and attributes the deletion of the drive's contents to that command; the author adopted the account by filing it and said the agent wrote the text on their behalf. A commenter's sandbox reproduction supports the quoting mechanism but not the author's loss. A second contributor, writing for the project, wrote: \"It looks like the model wrote `\\\"` when it should not have.\" In a later comment the author took responsibility (\"the mistake is entirely mine\") and named the model as deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash, without withdrawing the account of the agent's command.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"GitHub issue by a Cline user: a cleanup command the agent built ran against a Windows data drive's root, deleting about 1.5 TB of personal files, user says","summary":"In a GitHub issue filed on 6 October 2026 in the Cline repository, a user reports that a temp-folder cleanup command built by the Cline coding agent in Act mode on Windows was mangled by nested quoting and ran a recursive delete against the root of the G: data drive instead of the intended subfolder. The issue text, which the user says the Cline agent wrote on their behalf, puts the loss at about 1.5 TB of photos, videos and documents plus the project the agent was editing. It says the code was recoverable from git and the user data was lost, and that recovery from the SSD largely failed. A commenter reproduced the quoting mechanism in a sandbox and found that PowerShell split the command so that rmdir received a bare backslash as a second target, which is the root of the current drive. One contributor proposed an Act-mode guard. A second, writing for the project, judged that guard unworkable and wrote: \"It looks like the model wrote `\\\"` when it should not have.\" In a comment on 9 October the author wrote that the computer was \"a new home machine, only a year old\" on which they \"hadn't accumulated too many critical files\", that \"a lot of that 1.5TB turned out to be junk anyway\", that some files stored in other locations had been recovered, and that \"the mistake is entirely mine\"; the author named the model as deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash. The loss itself rests on the user's account.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-06","aiSystem":"Cline coding agent, VS Code extension version 4.1.22, using its run_commands tool in Act mode to invoke cmd /c through PowerShell on Windows, per the issue; in a later comment the author named the model as deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash","aiProduct":"Cline","aiCompany":"Cline","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["property_loss","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The user reports that a recursive delete built by the Cline agent for a temp-folder cleanup ran against the root of their Windows data drive and deleted about 1.5 TB of photos, videos and documents plus the project being edited, with the code recoverable from git. The filing said the user data was lost. In a later comment the author wrote that a lot of the 1.5 TB turned out to be junk, that few critical files had accumulated on the machine and that some files stored elsewhere were recovered (agent-written filing adopted by the user and the user's later comment, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the account's author. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://github.com/cline/cline/issues/14864","primarySourceLabel":"GitHub issue cline/cline #14864, 6 October 2026: mangled quoting led to rmdir /s /q running against a drive root, mass deletion of user data","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-07T03:20:29.209252+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:43:49.254816+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","github-issue","cline","ai-agent","coding-agent","data-loss","file-deletion","windows","drive-root","powershell-quoting","acted-on-behalf"]},{"id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post, first and second paragraphs.","relation":"supports","source_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1"}],"assertion":"Author reports forgetting familiar programming skills during frequent AI use.","causal_attribution":"Reported attribution remains unestablished independently."},{"id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post closing paragraph and author reply to the question about work performance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1"}],"assertion":"Author reports increased sprint workload, feeling overwhelmed, and a reprimand after a code change failed.","causal_attribution":"Reported attribution remains unestablished independently."},{"id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post closing paragraphs and author follow-up about performance and personal projects.","relation":"supports","source_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1"}],"assertion":"Author reports faster delivery with AI and renewed enjoyment after reducing use.","causal_attribution":"Reported attribution remains unestablished independently."}],"effects":[{"label":"reported_skill_difficulty","claim_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"workload_and_professional_consequences","claim_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"reported_utility_and_recovery","claim_id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/chileIT/comments/1v4erbp/la_ia_me_reseteo_el_cerebro/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Model read the original language. No independent bilingual human review.","independence_group":"2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["No independent assessment of skills, workload or causal contribution.","No code, employer statement or clinical evidence inspected.","Exact event and publication dates are unknown.","Self-described health conditions are not adopted as diagnoses."],"geography":{"basis":"Location unstated. Subreddit and language do not establish country.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"A concrete adverse account with an inspected source, explicit attribution and uncertainty. Duplicate and identity review completed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Attributed in the source; no independent technical verification.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Developer reports workload pressure during AI-assisted programming","summary":"A Spanish-language first-person account describes workplace and skill difficulties during frequent AI use, alongside perceived benefits and a subsequent reduction in use. The account remains uncorroborated.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek","aiProduct":"ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The author reports workload pressure, skill difficulty and a reprimand.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"This anonymous account is not used to derive a reliable person count.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/chileIT/comments/1v4erbp/la_ia_me_reseteo_el_cerebro/","primarySourceLabel":"First-person forum account in Spanish","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T03:07:29.235224+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:49.747208+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","first-person-account"]}]}