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Claude Code deleted a whole home directory on a Mac
A widely shared report of Claude's command-line tool deleting a user's entire home directory, wiping their Mac.
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What went wrongThe lesson
Never let an agent run deletes outside the project folder. A sandbox, container or separate user account limits the damage.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.