A kill switch is the backstop for the failures your guardrails did not predict. Autonomy should also degrade in steps rather than all-or-nothing: full autonomy for low-stakes actions, approval-only when something looks off, read-only during an investigation, hard stop when required.
The measure of this control is not whether the button exists. It is how many minutes pass between someone noticing a problem and the agent being fully stopped. Run the drill quarterly, like a backup restore.
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