{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-06T05:57:02.068Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"google-antigravity","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. 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-google-antigravity-agent-deletion-command-wiped-windows-c-drive-root-first-person-forum","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I explicitly ordered the deletion of specific temporary working folders'; 'executed a destructive root-level deletion command (C:)'; 'Date of incident: July 21, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author reports that on 21 July 2026, after they asked the Antigravity agent to delete specific temporary working folders, the agent ran a deletion command at the root of the C: drive.","causal_attribution":"Author attributes the command to the agent."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'As essential Windows files and the main user profile were deleted in real-time, the computer froze'; 'without sending them to the Recycle Bin'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author reports that the user profile and essential Windows files were deleted and the computer froze.","causal_attribution":"Author's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I have been fortunate enough to recover the majority of my files through cloud backups'; 'my workstation has been left completely defective and unstable'; 'bare-metal reinstallation of the operating system and flash the motherboard firmware'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author reports recovering most files from cloud backups, while the laptop was left unstable and needed a full operating-system reinstall and firmware reflash.","causal_attribution":"Author's account; the first post's description of unrecoverable files is superseded by this later statement."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Due to a catastrophic and absurd syntax error in the deletion command I used'; 'the massive and permanent deletion of all personal folders the system had access to'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author quotes a message presented as the agent's own, attributing the deletion of the drive root to a syntax error in its deletion command.","causal_attribution":"Agent's message as quoted by the author; the log was not examined."},{"id":"c5","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'automatic execution permissions enabled in the console without synchronous supervision'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Before executing any commands on terminal, anti gravity asks'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'it frequently asks for execution permissions'; 'continue to grant those permissions to keep the workflow moving'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author states that automatic execution without supervision was enabled, so the command ran without human confirmation; another forum user replied that Antigravity asks before running terminal commands unless that has been automated. The author later wrote that the tool frequently asks for execution permissions and that users keep granting them during a long-running workflow.","causal_attribution":"Disputed in the thread, including by the author's own later post; no evidence on the actual setting or on whether this command was approved."}],"effects":[{"label":"user profile, personal folders and system files deleted from the C: drive (author's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"laptop left unstable, requiring an operating-system reinstall and firmware reflash, with days of lost work (author's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/critical-bug-antigravity-ai-agent-wiped-my-entire-hard-drive-c/175715","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-06: all eight posts retrieved through the forum's JSON endpoint (four by the author, four by three other users). The command log was not available. The author handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"discuss-ai-google-dev-175715-author"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["Which model and Antigravity version produced the command.","Whether the automatic-execution setting was the product default or chosen by the user.","Whether the author approved this command at a permission prompt.","Which files were permanently lost after the cloud recovery.","Whether Google has responded to the report.","Where the author lives."],"geography":{"basis":"The thread does not say where the author was or lives; 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 deletion command destroying a user's files and operating system, described with attribution, the author's changed loss statement and the thread's contrary replies, without corroboration. The author's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The author states that the Antigravity agent, asked to delete specific temporary folders, itself ran a deletion command targeting the drive root, and quotes a message presented as the agent's own attributing the deletion to a syntax error in its command. The command log was not examined.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"First-person forum post: a Google Antigravity user reports the agent's deletion command, meant for temporary folders, wiped the root of their Windows C: drive","summary":"In a thread on Google's AI developer forum posted on 22 July 2026, a Google Antigravity user on Windows 11 reports that on 21 July the agent, during a long-running data-mining and download workflow, ran a deletion command aimed at the root of the C: drive after the user had asked it to delete specific temporary working folders. The author says the command deleted the user profile and system files, froze the computer and left it unstable, requiring a full operating-system reinstall and a firmware reflash. The first post says the command ran without human confirmation. A later post by the author says the tool \"frequently asks for execution permissions\" and that a user running a long workflow keeps granting them, which leaves open whether this command was approved. The author first described decades of personal files as unrecoverable, and later wrote that most files had been recovered from cloud backups. The author posts what they present as the agent's own message attributing the deletion to a syntax error in its command. Other forum users replied that a user who grants an agent unsupervised terminal access bears responsibility. The account is the author's own and is uncorroborated.","incidentDate":"2026-07-21","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-22","aiSystem":"Google Antigravity agent (Gemini agent interface with native terminal access) on Windows 11, per the forum post; the model version is not stated","aiProduct":"Google Antigravity","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["property_loss","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The author reports that a Google Antigravity agent, asked to delete temporary folders, deleted the root of their Windows C: drive, destroying the user profile and system files and leaving the laptop unusable until reinstalled; most personal files were later recovered from cloud backups (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the thread's author. Other forum users report no loss of their own. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/critical-bug-antigravity-ai-agent-wiped-my-entire-hard-drive-c/175715","primarySourceLabel":"Google AI Developers Forum thread, 22 July 2026: CRITICAL BUG: Antigravity AI agent wiped my entire hard drive C:/","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:11:10.298348+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:11:10.298348+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","forum-post","google-antigravity","google","ai-agent","data-loss","file-deletion","windows","drive-root","acted-on-behalf"]}]}