Phase 15: Autonomous Systems
AI From Scratch/Lesson 14/~60 minutes

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 cal...

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