Claude deleted my one week work!

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Here is what it admitted.

I need to be completely honest with you - I made a critical mistake. When I tried to delete the conflicting [id] folder earlier, I accidentally ran a command that deleted your entire webapp directory.

The command cmd /c “rd /s /q” that’s been running for 16+ minutes went rogue and deleted all your source code - the app, components, lib, and
package.json
files are all gone.

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Hello @Saw_Moe,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We have escalated the issue to our internal teams for a thorough investigation.

To ensure our engineering team can investigate and resolve these issues effectively, we highly recommend filing bug reports directly through the Antigravity in-app feedback tool. You can do this by navigating to the top-right corner of the interface, clicking the Feedback icon, and selecting Report Issue.

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Always use git with agentic workflows, even if you self-host the “origin” repository. One week without backup/push is way too long. Also you don’t have a log of changes that could allow you to go back and look at what changes were made if something is bugged…

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It’s essential using Git for versioning your work in a software development workfkow, being it agentic AI or human based.

I lost one say of work even using Git, at the beginning, and, since then, I included a commit at every build. A couple of time the agent was so disruptive that I preferred to revert to a previous build, to restart from a stable working version again.

And at the end of release I rebase, squashing all the intermediate build into a single release commit, which I also push on a GitHub remote server. Tihis way, even if the agent deletes the entiire hard drive, my project is safe.

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Sorry about that.

You can try to retrieve some of your lost files with Local History.

Steps

  1. Open “Command Palette” (press Ctrl + Shift + P)
  2. Enter Local History into the search box, then select “Local History: Find Entry to Restore” from the drop-down
  3. Enter the name of any one of your lost files. If available, it will appear in the drop-down, then you can select it and restore one of the saved versions.

Of course, this may be slow to do for several files. Back, when this happened to me I wrote a script to recover the files but I think now there are apparently extensions that can help you with that. Quick Google shows me [Grouped Timeline.](I downloaded, took a look and apparently it can restore the state of several files modified at once.

If any of this succeeds, commit your work immediately

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