AI overwriting local file with remote

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Since Jun 14, 2026.

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info-needed

Type: Bug

AI completed a task to add code and also deleted 200 lines of unrelated code. When confronted, it agreed and tried to restore code to orginal. Instead of simply restoring from the restore point it created it went to the remote repo and tried to restore the page from there. In my opinion this is a critical security violation and should only be attempted when asked as a last resort. It's own internal restore point should have been the first choice. A setting to prevent such an action was not found in settings. A major oversight.

VS Code version: Code 1.124.2 (6928394f91b684055b873eecb8bc281365131f1c, 2026-06-12T00:12:36Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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