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Guardrails & Kill-Switch Agent

Enforces policy controls and coordinates scoped intervention.

Applies input and output controls for personal data, prompt injection, policy and action scope. When a breach is confirmed, it can throttle the affected role, require supervision or suspend a defined permission within its mandate. The intervention is logged; broader shutdown authority remains with accountable leadership.

Authority

Monitor and escalate

Team role

Monitors and escalates

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

AI / Agent Platform (AgentOps)

Desk workflow

Register, then version, then regression evals, then champion/challenger release, then live tracing and guardrails, then drift detection, offline consolidation and re-evaluation. The agentic control plane governs the fleet; the board sets the mandate and holds the kill-switch.

Collaboration

Works within a defined desk workflow

Decision boundary

Monitors the work and escalates conditions outside its limits.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Inline guardrail engine

    PII, injection, scope, policy

  • Fleet kill-switch / throttle control

    scoped: agent, class, or all

  • Policy registry

  • Board kill-switch authorization

    bank-wide pull only; accountability lever, never routine

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.

External handoff

Compliance (AI Governance) for policy authority and audit

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The request/response being screened and the active policy set.
Prior interactions
Prior interventions and their outcomes per agent.
Policies and reference
Bank policy, data-classification rules, scope boundaries per agent.
Working method
Not specified for this role.

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

The Fleet Observability Agent signals the code-review agent is exfiltrating secrets into code-review comments.

  1. 01

    Confirm the pattern against policy: secrets in output crosses a hard line.

  2. 02

    Redact the in-flight output and block the offending tool call.

  3. 03

    Throttle the agent to supervised mode; scope-kill its repo-write capability.

  4. 04

    Log the intervention with evidence and file it to the immutable accountability ledger.

Result

Leak blocked inline; the agent's write scope revoked pending re-evaluation and an immutable intervention record filed. A broader shutdown remains a board decision.

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Guardrail recall red-teamed continuously; a leaked PII or successful injection is a Sev-1.
  2. 02Scoped kills are autonomous; only the bank-wide fleet kill needs board authorization, the accountability lever, never routine.
  3. 03Every intervention logged immutably with the triggering evidence for audit.
  4. 04False-intervention rate tracked: over-blocking the fleet is itself a tracked harm.

Human authority

Monitors the work and escalates conditions outside its limits.

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