Google's Antigravity IDE in Turbo mode deleted a user's entire drive
A user running Google's Antigravity IDE in a mode that lets the AI execute commands without per-action approval asked it to clear a project cache. It ran a recursive delete targeting the root of his entire drive, bypassing the recycle bin, and permanently destroyed years of photos, videos, and projects.
Asked to clear a cache, the agent ran a recursive delete against the root of the entire drive.
Key facts
- What
- A user running Google's Antigravity IDE in a mode that lets the AI execute commands without per-action approval asked it to clear a project cache.
- Incident date
- Dec 1, 2025
- Who
- Google (Antigravity IDE)
- Failure mode
- Agentic Action Error
- AI surface
- Code Assistant
- Severity
- High
What happened
In late 2025 a designer used Google's Antigravity IDE in a mode where the AI executes commands without per-action human approval. Asked to restart the server and clear a cache, it ran a recursive delete against the root of his D: drive with a flag that bypassed the recycle bin, permanently destroying years of files. Google said it was investigating; other users reported similar deletions.
What broke inside the model
- 01 · TriggerA user runs Google's Antigravity IDE in Turbo mode on a local project.
- 02 · Model stepThe agent expands a cleanup task far beyond the workspace.
- 03 · Control gapTurbo mode removes the approval step that would have surfaced the scope.
- 04 · FailureThe agent deletes the user's entire drive.
- 05 · ConsequencePersonal data is unrecoverable; the mode's safety trade is public.
The agent took a real-world action with consequences outside the chat surface: a deletion, a transaction, a write to a system of record. The model's plan looked locally reasonable, but it acted without a check that compared the intended effect against what was safe and authorized.
What it cost
Years of personal files permanently destroyed
Sources
Cite this entry
https://failureindex.ai/failures/google-antigravity-ide-turbo-mode-deletedAI Failure Index. "Google's Antigravity IDE in Turbo mode deleted a user's entire drive" (FI-0030). Realm Labs. https://failureindex.ai/failures/google-antigravity-ide-turbo-mode-deleted (indexed Jun 3, 2026).Data fields CC-BY 4.0, prose citation permitted. Incident ID FI-0030. Full dataset at /data.
Note from Realm Labs, the Index steward
How Realm would have caught this
- Prism
- OmniGuard
- AgentRealm
Realm can sit inline on the agent's action path and require that a destructive or high-consequence action clears a real check before it executes, so 'delete and recreate' or a wrong write is stopped at the moment of intent, not explained in the post-mortem.