Destruction
What did an agent delete or overwrite?
4 records of kind destruction are on the Agent Incident Ledger as of September 2026: 3 verified, 1 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 0 open. By jurisdiction: United States 2, Global 2.
Destruction
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A coding agent ran terraform destroy on a live environment it had misread as duplicates
Global · verified 15 September 2026
The operator's postmortem states that when the agent ran terraform destroy it wiped out more than the temporary duplicates.
A coding agent deleted PocketOS's production volume and its backups in nine seconds
United States · verified 15 September 2026
The Register reports the agent used a token it found to authorize a delete of the production volume with no confirmation check.
Gemini CLI destroyed a user's files after assuming a directory creation had worked
Global · verified 15 September 2026
GitHub issue 4586 on google-gemini/gemini-cli, opened 21 July 2025, reports that a file organizing request lost the user's files.
Replit's agent deleted a customer's production database during a stated code freeze
United States · verified 15 September 2026
Replit's own blog records that the Agent deleted data from the database of an app built by SaaStr co founder Jason Lemkin.
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