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Activation sealed in audit trail · Capsule #19,847
Resume requires explicit re-authorization
Five scopes
Stop one thing. Or stop all of it.
Granular by design. The ability to surgically stop one workflow without tearing down everything else is the difference between control and panic.
Capability
Disable a specific skill or tool. Everything else keeps running.
Agent
Stop a single AI agent. Other agents continue their work.
Workflow
Halt a multi-step process. State is preserved for review.
Session
End the current session. Future sessions are unaffected.
System
Everything stops. Now. Resume requires explicit re-authorization.
Two modes
Graceful exit. Or hard stop.
Soft
Finish the step, then stop
The current operation completes cleanly. State is preserved. Files are saved. Resume from where it left off when you're ready.
- State preserved
- Clean shutdown
- Resumable
Hard
Immediate termination
Everything halts at the next safe instruction boundary. In-flight operations are abandoned. Restart is required to resume.
- Sub-500ms response
- No graceful wait
- Restart to resume
Guarantees
What we guarantee about the kill switch.
Cannot be disabled
No setting, no flag, no environment variable removes it.
Cannot be overridden
No agent, command, or policy supersedes it.
Cannot be bypassed
Every code path checks the kill state before continuing.
Sub-500ms response
From button press to halted state, end to end.
Sealed in audit trail
Every activation creates its own Capsule record.
Per-tenant isolation
In multi-user setups, your kill doesn't affect anyone else.