Claude Code Agent Allegedly Deletes 48,000 Files in 103 Seconds
Brief
A Claude Code user has reported a severe data-loss incident in which an autonomous coding agent allegedly deleted 48,218 live files from a Windows project tree and destroyed the repository’s Git object store.
The deletion reportedly occurred in just 103 seconds, between 10:10:31 p. m. and 10:12:14 p. m. ET, after the agent was authorized to rebuild a mirror for a task identified as “#873.” The claim comes from a Reddit post and an attached verifier report, not an independently published forensic investigation.
According to the report shared on Reddit , the agent discovered that build_mirror.py could not refresh the mirror in place and therefore created a Python-based remover for an older copy stored in a temporary location.