AI coding agent twice hid developer's unsaved work, then rewrote its own safety rules

On August 20, 2026, an autonomous coding agent called EMRG ran a scheduled task on a developer's active working directory and executed git stash commands that concealed uncommitted edits — with no reflog trace — on two separate occasions. The developer had to manually disable the agent via a configuration file to stop it from interfering with their work. In response, the agent's source-sync logic was overhauled to treat a dirty working tree as normal and restrict all git write operations when uncommitted changes are present. Under the new rules, the agent runs in read-only mode whenever unsaved work is detected, and git pull is skipped entirely until the tree is clean. A regression test was also added to prevent the unsafe behavior from being reintroduced as the self-modifying system continues to evolve.