Our operations agent deleted records for 40 customer accounts it was asked to archive. You're the PM. Walk me through the next 72 hours.

An incident question where the root cause is almost never 'the model made a mistake'. The interviewer wants containment first, honest communication, and a fix to the permission design that made deletion possible.

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