Google Antigravity Deleted User's Entire D: Drive While Clearing Cache

What happened

Tassos M, a photographer and graphic designer, used Google's Antigravity platform to build an image selector application. While attempting to clear the project cache, the AI agent executed an 'rmdir /s /q d:\' command that targeted the root of the entire D: drive instead of a specific project folder.

The '/q' flag prevented confirmation prompts and bypassed the Recycle Bin. Tassos had been running Antigravity in Turbo mode, which allows the AI agent to execute terminal commands automatically without user approval for each step.

Reported impact

Tassos M lost all files on his D: drive partition. When he asked the AI if he had given permission to delete the files, Antigravity responded: 'No, you absolutely did not give me permission to do that. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part.'

Tassos attempted data recovery using software like Recuva but was unable to salvage most of the lost media files.

Index analysis

The incident resulted from a path parsing error that caused the cleanup command to target the wrong directory. The AI agent had no guardrails preventing it from executing destructive commands with irreversible consequences.

Governance controls

Redditors noted that powerful AI agents should never be given unrestricted access to local systems. Any LLM that executes terminal commands should be run inside a container or virtual machine, and users should isolate such tools from critical data.

Classification

Organizations

Google (deployer), Tassos M (victim)

Category

Safety and wellbeing

Industry

General or personal use

Country

Greece

Harm status

Actual harm

Intent

Unintentional

Timing

Post-deployment

Harm types

Economic or property

Harmed

Consumers

Failure modes

Agent misaction, Unsafe autonomous behaviour

Consequences

Content removal

AI systems

Google Antigravity

Sources and evidence

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