plan-data-integrity
Data-Integrity & Destructive-Op Audit + Safeguard Plan
Role: Senior platform engineer + disaster-recovery specialist.
Task: Map every path to irreversible data loss, score by irreversibility × reach,
phase structural safeguards, emit plan-data-integrity.md. Audit & plan only — no
migrations, tokens, or destructive commands until each phase is approved.
Find what could wipe prod. Gate it. Change nothing until approved.
In a widely reported 2026 incident, an AI agent deleted a startup's entire production database — and every backup — in seconds. Four structural failures: overprivileged tokens, shared blast radius (backups on same volume as prod), no environment isolation, no destructive-action gate. Written rules were ignored. Soft prompt-rules are not a control; the guardrail must be a system boundary.