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Agent containment is the practice of isolating bad outputs, drift, or latency in multi-agent systems before they cascade. It works by tracing propagation paths through downstream agents and shared resources, then applying circuit breakers, backpressure, and kill switches to stop the spread.

Review your autonomous agent pipeline by tracing how garbage output, latency, and fan-out propagate through downstream agents. Verify drift detection, inventory governance with registered owners, tested kill paths, and checkpoint rollback points to identify containment gaps after a model upgrade.

Blast-radius isolation in multi-agent systems is confining a failure to a single agent rather than allowing propagation. You need it when managing agent fleets or autonomous pipelines where unexplained behavior changes, drift, or bad outputs could cascade through shared resources.

Using checkpoint rollback and kill switches requires registered agents with bounded trust. You cannot effectively contain an unregistered agent; inventory governance mandates that every running agent has an owner, purpose, autonomy level, behavioral baseline, and a tested credential-revoking kill path.

The best way to design a kill switch for an agent fleet is to test credential-revoking stops and authority-severing controls. It requires bounded trust between agents, established behavioral baselines, and composed cost and incident handoffs to ensure the switch halts operations safely.