Claude Code catastrophe: Entire project recursively deleted while prompting in Chinese (full video + logs)

Summary

Cross-posting from r/claude for more visibility. LAST UPDATE: I managed to recover the code later from an Electron packaged build / updater cache / app.asar. But the recovery is not the part that bothers me. My prompt did not ask for deletion. Not even close. Yet Claude Code generated the Windows equivalent of a recursive forced delete, basically “sudo rm -rf” behavior. This time, it stayed inside the project folder. But if this had not been a coding project, what would the scope have been? If t

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