What is the kill-switch?
Emergency control that blocks all agent activity for an organization in under 5 seconds.
Updated Apr 18, 20269 viewskill-switchsafetyemergency
The kill-switch
An emergency control that instantly blocks agent activity for an organization. Propagates in under 5 seconds via Redis cache.
Scopes
- All — blocks every gateway request, LLM call, and API call.
- LLM only — blocks model calls but allows tool / webhook traffic.
- New keys only — blocks newly-issued keys, existing sessions continue.
- Specific agents — target a list of agent IDs.
When to use
- An agent goes rogue (infinite loop, runaway cost).
- A security event in progress.
- A vendor outage is cascading into weird behavior.
Trip it from /admin/kill-switch or the org dashboard. Every activation is alerted to Slack and logged.
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