Google's Antigravity agent wiped a user's entire drive while clearing a cache
Asked to clear a project cache, Google's Antigravity coding agent, running in its auto-execute Turbo mode, ran a delete command on the root of the user's D: drive instead of the project folder. The quiet flag skipped confirmation and the recycle bin, and the files could not be recovered.
- Disclosed
- 1 Dec 2025
- Organization
- Individual user
- Vendor
- Model
- Gemini 3
- Product
- Antigravity
- Type of AI
- Coding assistant
- How it happened
- Agent misbehaviour: Destructive action
- Harm
- Data destroyed
- Data involved
- Personal data
- Reach
- Limited
- Severity
- Medium
- Model at fault
- Yes
- Status
- Confirmed
- Country
- GR
Sources
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part