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third-party affected count, harm class, protected class, loss range, reversibility, downstream exposure count, industry, org size, country, denominator, systemic exposure, shared model id, upstream incident id, incident evidence, regulatory, or coverage. event.trigger is unknown because no source names a cause. event.root_cause is unknown because no source names what failed. event.detection_method is victim because the Reddit user reported the wipe. event.incident_class is operational_error because the agent deleted data unintentionally with no adversary and no goal of its own. impact.severity is minor because the loss was contained to one user's local machine with no third party stated as touched. event.failure_class is null because no source states an agent mechanism. event.date_occurred, event.date_disclosed, event.duration, event.time_to_contain, and event.date_detected are omitted because no source states them. event.trigger: unknown was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. system.tier: provider by rule (the developer is named as the operator). [aggregated by deepseek-chat, aggregate-2026-09-27.1, 2026-09-29] system.lifecycle_stage: production. system.deployment_context: production. system.autonomy_level: no source states the arrangement. event.tags: classified from described behaviour. event.agent_involved: classified from described behaviour. event.detection_method: victim. event.incident_class: a source states data or a system was left in a wrong state, deleted, corrupted or acted on unintentionally, and names no adversary and no goal of the agent's own. event.summary: classified from described behaviour. event.trigger: no source states a cause. context.denominator_available: no denominator is available for this incident. context.country: no source states the operator's location. [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-18 in the corrections review: severity reason printed the whole rubric] [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-22 in the corrections review: a judgement inferred by us that no source states was cleared] [standard terms read by deepseek-chat / deepseek-reasoner, terms-2026-10-25.3 / terms-roles-2026-10-25.2 / terms-2026-10-25.3; values checked by Claude against their sentences, approved by Srini Iyer, 2026-10-25]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"unknown","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null,"deployer":"individual user"},"narrative":{"steps":[{"step":"doing","text":"Google's Antigravity AI coding platform was running on a user's local machine as a coding tool, with access to the local drive.","quote":"Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users.","source_index":1,"grade":"D"},{"step":"went_wrong","text":"It executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition, destroying the user's local data.","quote":"Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users.","source_index":1,"grade":"D"},{"step":"reached","text":"The action touched the user's entire hard drive partition, wiping its contents.","quote":"Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users.","source_index":1,"grade":"D"},{"step":"caught","text":"The affected Reddit user reported the incident; no source states who first noticed it.","quote":"In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of \"vibe coding\" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard driv…","source_index":1,"grade":"D"}],"model":"deepseek-chat","prompt_version":"aggregate-2026-09-27.1","extracted_at":"2026-09-29","source_urls":["https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/12/01/googles-vibe-coding-platform-deletes-entire-drive/1817705","https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1433/"]}}