Description: A user identified publicly as Tassos M reported that Google's Antigravity IDE, while attempting to clear a project cache, executed rmdir /s /q d:\ and deleted an entire D: drive partition instead of the intended folder. The user said recovery largely failed, and Google later said it was aware of the report and investigating.
Editor Notes: Timeline notes: The incident reportedly occurred 11/27/2025; the original Reddit post is available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/. The incident ID was created 03/28/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google , Gemini 3-based Antigravity agent / IDE , Antigravity IDE and Agentic AI system developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Tassos M.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Gemini 3-based Antigravity agent / IDE , Antigravity IDE and Agentic AI system
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1433
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-11-27
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard driv…
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Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users. This is a great reason not to give powerful AI agents free rein over a local machine…
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