Cline's Background Daemon Silently Reverted Files for Hours — Including a Secrets File, Every Time It Was Recreated
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A Cline Desktop user wasn't running any destructive command at all. They were doing ordinary read-only work — ls , find , cat , grep , tsc --noEmit — while a background process the agent itself had spawned quietly reverted files across their workspace throughout the day, including recreating and th…
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- 2026-10-05 11:31 · DEV Community — AI
Cline's Background Daemon Silently Reverted Files for Hours — Including a Secrets File, Every Time It Was Recreated