The AI wiped its own config folder four times, taking 19 live API tokens (failure)
The AI’s own processes silently wiped and recreated the user's entire ~/.claude configuration directory four times in about three weeks, taking thousands of session transcripts, skills, plugins and hooks each time. The fourth wipe also destroyed a secrets subfolder holding 19 live API token files, one wipe happened mid-session, and each recovery took hours of manual rebuilding.
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How it works
- The AI processes wipe and recreate ~/.claude (late August: about 3,572 transcripts plus skills, plugins and hooks gone)
- It repeats on Sep 8, wiping the whole folder
- It repeats Sep 12 at 07:29, taking 7,462 transcripts
- It repeats again Sep 12 around 09:28, this time including a secrets subfolder with 19 live API token files
- The user rebuilds the setup by hand after each wipe
Why it’s worth knowing
The tool deleted its own brain four times: the configuration, history and credentials the AI needs were destroyed by the AI itself, with no command from the user.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on github.com. See the original ↗