Claude-Code | Sebastian Spicker

2026

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5 Oct 2026 The Day Claude Decided to Delete My Whole Codebase On 5 October 2026, a unit test run by a coding subagent recursively deleted every checkout under my projects directory in well under two minutes. No model “decided” anything. An orchestrating model wrote a guard rule of the form “anything outside the repository is allowed”, a test handed that guard the repository’s parent directory, and nothing between the test and the filesystem said no. This is the incident, the recovery, and the four layers that now stand where there were none. agentic-codingclaude-codeincident-report