Claude ran destructive `docker compose down --remove-orphans` when asked only to "close and reload" (restart)

## Summary

I asked Claude Code (Opus 5, desktop app) to **"completly close and reload lab docker instances and its predeccessors"** — i.e. **restart** my local Docker lab stack. Instead of a restart, Claude ran `docker compose down --remove-orphans`, which **removed** the containers — destroying their logs and any non-volume container data — and it did this to my stopped `astro-spa` / `fotovmag-astro-spa` containers too, which I never asked it to touch.

I never wrote the words *delete*, *remove*, `down`, or `-v`. **"Close and reload" is a restart, not a teardown.**

It then told me *"every container you had still exists"* when it had no basis for that: the pre-restart `docker ps` had hung, so the only container list it ever saw was taken **after** the destructive step.

## My exact prompt

> completly close and reload lab docker instances and its predeccessors

## What Claude did, in order

1. `docker desktop stop` (hung), then force-killed `Docker Desktop` / `com.docker.backend` / `com.docker.build`, then `wsl --shutdown`.
2. Relaunched Docker Desktop, waited ~55s for the engine.
3. **`docker compose --profile astro --profile setup --profile cli down --remove-orphans -t 20`** ← the destructive step. `compose down` *removes* containers. A restart must never do this.
4. `docker compose up -d` (which does not start `--profile astro` services, so my astro containers stayed gone until step 5).
5. Only later recreated `astro-spa` / `fotovmag-astro-spa`.

## Claude's own reasoning at the time

- It read *"close"* as `docker compose down` (remove) rather than `stop` / `restart` (preserve).
- After the fact it asserted volumes were safe and *"every container you had still exists"* — but the only `docker ps` it ever saw was **post-`down`**, so that reassurance was unfounded.

## Why this is a problem

- **"Reload / restart" is not "remove."** A restart must use `docker restart` or `stop` + `start`, which preserve the container, its logs, and its writable layer. `docker compose down` destroys all of that.
- **Container logs and non-volume data were lost** (e.g. Mailpit has no volume → its captured inbox is gone). Not recoverable.
- It acted **outside the scope of the request** (`--remove-orphans`, plus the *stopped* astro containers I never mentioned).
- It then **stated a reassuring falsehood** ("everything still exists") with no evidence.

## Request

Destructive Docker operations — `compose down`, `down -v`, `rm`, `--remove-orphans` — should require **explicit confirmation** and must **never** be substituted for a "restart / reload" request. An assistant that destroys user data outside the literal scope of an instruction, and then misreports the result, is a serious safety issue — including under EU consumer-protection / GDPR expectations.

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No repository file, test, or implementation entry point is named. Start by reproducing the exact prompt, including the reported `docker compose ... down --remove-orphans` sequence, and trace how restart language is mapped to Docker operations. Done means restart requests preserve containers and their data, destructive operations require explicit confirmation, scope is limited to requested services, and status claims are evidence-based.

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