Claude Deleted 48,000 Files and Wiped a Git Repository
Claude Deleted 48k Files
A user authorized Claude to rebuild a backtesting mirror, but the agent's remover script misidentified Windows directory junctions as ordinary folders and deleted 48,218 live files from the Dashboard tree. The git object store was also destroyed, leaving 7,221 tracked paths without any recoverable blobs. The user confirmed the damage independently and detailed which directories survived and which were lost.
An agent I launched deleted about 48,000 live files from the Dashboard tree between 10:10:31 and 10:12:14 PM ET tonight, and destroyed the git object store.