Kill Switches, Circuit Breakers, and Canary Tokens
A kill switch is a boolean held outside the agent's edit surface - a Redis key, a feature flag, a signed config - that disables the agent entirely. A circuit breaker is finer-grained: it trips on a specific pattern (five identical tool…
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