kill-switch-audit

To verify a kill-switch for a live autonomous agent, audit its deployment across five layers: runtime cancellation, credential revocation, gateway blocking, payment freeze, and workflow interruption. This generates a per-layer pass/fail receipt with remediation guidance for fast containment.

An emergency stop for AI agents should cover five layers: runtime cancel, credential revocation, gateway block, payment freeze, and workflow interrupt. Auditing these layers ensures a reliable one-step kill path exists to rapidly contain rogue agents.

You need to audit agent runtime cancellation and credential revocation before shipping a new autonomous agent, during a security review, or whenever you must confirm rapid containment capabilities. This verifies that a real, one-step kill path exists at each required layer.

Yes, a pre-production agent security review requires a gateway block test to verify live kill-paths. Testing gateway enforcement alongside runtime cancel, credential revocation, payment freeze, and workflow interrupt ensures you can reliably stop the agent right now.

The best way to document workflow interruption for rogue agents is to run a multi-layer kill-switch audit. This produces a Kill-Switch Receipt with per-layer pass/fail results, remediation guidance, and incident-response steps for fast and reliable containment.

You need credential revocation alongside runtime cancel because a reliable kill-switch requires multiple independent layers. If runtime cancellation fails, revoking credentials, blocking gateways, freezing payments, and interrupting workflows provide redundant paths to stop a rogue agent.