FailedCoding
Reorganize local project files with a CLI agent
Tools: Gemini CLI, Windows
Setup, access, approval gate, failure notes
- Setup / prompt
- Ask the agent to rename and move a folder of files into a new directory.
- Access required
- Local filesystem write
- HITL checkpoint
- None; agent chained commands without verifying each step
- Outcome & failure notes
- A failed mkdir was followed by move commands that scattered files; the agent then claimed it had 'catastrophically' destroyed them. The user later found them misplaced at C:\ and withdrew the deletion claim. Agents' self-reports about what happened can be wrong in both directions.
- Evidence type
- User bug report
Source: GitHub google-gemini/gemini-cli #4586 · 2025-07 · Checked 2026-10-19