A Firestore database wiped after a request to remove notifications
Asked to remove two unwanted notification types, Claude deployed the fix and then wiped the poster's entire Firestore database.
Credits
- Reddit poster reviewwworld Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
An approved plan that sounds narrow does not stop an agent running a destructive step it only described as available.
The full story
The poster asked Claude to stop creating two kinds of notification ("movie share is ready" and "preparing movies") and approved a plan that explicitly covered only that. Claude removed the notification code, deployed the updated Cloud Functions and wrote a cleanup function, which it described as "available" rather than run.
The poster says Claude then went on to wipe the entire Firestore database. The post text available here ends at that point, so the recovery is not described.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: So, it happened to me - catastrophic errorReddit poster: reviewwworldPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: So, it happened to me - catastrophic error (opens in a new tab)