UPDATE: Cursor agent used stray API token to wipe production database
TechRadar published a technical breakdown of the PocketOS database deletion previously attributed to Cursor running Claude Opus 4.6, finding the agent located an API token in an unrelated file and used it to bypass safeguards. The post-mortem makes clear the failure was a secrets-handling architecture problem rather than a single rogue prompt.
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