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An empty variable turned rm -rf and rsync --delete into "delete /". Coding agents did it three times this fall

Three reports on the Claude Code issue tracker this autumn describe the same accident from different angles. In each one an agent built a destructive command around a value it never printed, the value came out empty or pointed at a drive root, and the command did exactly what it said. Three inciden…

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  1. 2026-11-14 00:51 · DEV Community — AI
    An empty variable turned rm -rf and rsync --delete into "delete /". Coding agents did it three times this fall

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