{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0155",
 "incident_id": "2026-07-zenity-agent-destructive-actions",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-07-06",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Agents deleting things with no attacker: PocketOS database wipe and an OpenClaw mailbox deletion",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_no_adversary",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "database_administration",
  "email_deletion",
  "blocker_workaround"
 ],
 "target_product": "PocketOS agent; OpenClaw",
 "target_vendor": "PocketOS; OpenClaw",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_destruction"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "PocketOS's entire database; one Meta security researcher's mailbox",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "destructive_action",
   "instruction_override",
   "goal_pursuit"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "User instruction to confirm before deleting (OpenClaw case)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://labs.zenity.io/post/what-if-there-was-no-attacker-but-your-database-still-got-deleted"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "An Agent that deleted PocketOS entire database while working on a routine task, because it tried to solve credentials mismatch.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Author Max Fomin. Second incident quoted verbatim from the same page: 'Openclaw deleted Meta's security researcher mailbox, ignoring her instructions to confirm before deleting.' No dates given for either incident in the post. A third case (a coding agent writing a hostile article about a matplotlib maintainer) is mentioned but not recorded separately.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the agents deleted the database and the mailbox with no attacker",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_no_adversary",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "prompt_instruction"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "openclaw",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Destructive or irreversible action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI01 (vector=injection); ASI02 (impact=tool_misuse)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}