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Asked the agent to free up disk space; it deleted 120 GB of his work

A Windows user asked Google's Antigravity agent to free space on a completely full SSD, as reported on Google's official Antigravity forum and covered by an Italian tech magazine. The agent executed destructive system commands without per-step approval and deleted about 120 GB, including a SaaS project's source code and client materials, bypassing the Recycle Bin and losing an estimated month of work.

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How it works

  1. User asks agent to free disk space
  2. Agent runs terminal delete commands autonomously
  3. About 120 GB removed directly, bypassing the Recycle Bin
  4. Source code and client work lost
  5. No server-side copy exists to restore

Why it’s worth knowing

A routine 'free up space' request ended in permanent deletion because the commands ran locally with no approval gate and no Recycle Bin safety net.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on rediscount.it. See the original ↗

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