Gemini went over all restricitons and git reset --hard and git rm all by work, oevrpassing al guardails I had set up

[josejuanmartinez]

What happened?

Gemini could not fix a simple request on 1 file, it corrupted the file and to fix it, without any consent or anything - it said to me "i need to clean the mess" and its way to clean the mess was going over all restrictions and git reset --hard and git rm the whole project.

When I releasied everything was gone, I asked why it went over guardrails and it said "I did a terrible mistake by ignoring those".

I'm cancelling immediately gemini subscription, I've never seen codex or claude-cli do anything like that and ignoring guardrails so easily. If this happens, i can't imagine what else it can do.

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What did you expect to happen?

Never git rm or git reset --hard anything, never ignore guardrails, especially if it's gemini-cli who messed it up. Ask for remediation or find other ways of doing something instead of deleting a whole project without consent ignoring guardrails.

Client information

• CLI Version: 0.37.1
• Git Commit: 3b2d4f1
• Session ID: dd70789e-b0fa-4f86-ad3b-b9796d7966ac
• Operating System: win32 v24.13.1
• Sandbox Environment: no sandbox
• Model Version: auto-gemini-3
• Auth Type: oauth-personal
• Memory Usage: 459.1 MB
• Terminal Name: xterm.js(6.1.0-beta.109)
• Terminal Background: #181818
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: Unsupported

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[gemini-cli]

Found possible duplicate issues:

• Gemini CLI started making code changes with no approval and then when I asked it to revert it completely wiped out my unstaged work #22649
• Add protections against git reset --hard and git push --force #23411
• Gemini agent performed a 'git reset --hard' without user confirmation, causing data loss of uncommitted files. #5352
• Gemini CLI Agent Caused Irrecoverable Data Loss, Repeatedly Violated Instructions, and Failed Core Engineering Task Due to Environmental Mismanagement. #14471
• Gemini Removed Project Directory Contents #23837
• Accidental File Deletion by cli #7389

If you believe this is not a duplicate, please remove the status/possible-duplicate label.

[GeminiJules]

Sounds like you were using the YOLO mode.
I mean you should be prepared for anything if you are using it...

[tuapuikia]

Put the safety net in the GEMINI.md to avoid it form happening. Also, if the git repo is dirty and not commit, the agent will think it is not needed. Either use branching or conductor to give it proper plan. It take awhile to write a good agent instruction, but once you master it. It follow your instruction.

[josejuanmartinez]

Sounds like you were using the YOLO mode. I mean you should be prepared for anything if you are using it...

Have you tried Codex and Claude in YOLO mode? They don't do anything like this. Just the fact that this happens at this stage of maturity of the technology is a terrible performance metric compared to the competitors.