AXME MESH
Stop any agent instantly — one command, no code deploy required
When an AI agent goes rogue — making costly API calls, sending incorrect data, entering infinite loops — the only options today are "kill the whole service" or "watch it burn."
AXME Mesh's kill switch lets you halt, pause, or quarantine any agent in your fleet in seconds — without a code change, rollback, or manual intervention.
Your email agent sent 3,000 messages with a broken unsubscribe link. It runs on three Cloud Run instances across two regions. Ctrl+C does not exist in production — and deleting the deployment stops every healthy agent with the rogue one.
Stop one agent without stopping the world
Rogue agents loop on expensive API calls, email the wrong cohort, or hammer a rate-limited integration. Killing the entire deployment stops good agents with bad ones — and rollback takes minutes you do not have.
AXME Mesh kill switch targets a single agent or class of agents: halt immediately, pause for investigation, or quarantine from the fleet — no code deploy required.
CAPABILITIES
How it works.
Halt
Immediate stop — no new work, all regions.
Pause
Freeze state for investigation.
Quarantine
Isolate agent from fleet queues.
DEEP DIVE
Production patterns.
Recovery workflow
Resume after fix.
Automated triggers
Policy-based halt.
Audit log
Who stopped what, when.
DIY Redis flag → gateway kill
DIY kill flag
kill_flags.set(f"kill:{agent_id}", "1")
# agents poll every N seconds
# multi-region, no auditAXME Mesh
client.mesh.kill("addr_abc123")
# <1s, all instances, audit logGateway-level enforcement
Kill is enforced at the Mesh gateway — new intents rejected (403), outbound blocked, heartbeat returns killed. Not a polite suggestion in Redis that agents may ignore.
Halt, pause, and quarantine
Halt stops new work and in-flight tool calls for the targeted agent. Pause freezes state so engineers can inspect intent history before resuming. Quarantine isolates the agent from shared queues and policies until root cause is understood.
Automated triggers can invoke kill modes when policies breach — spend caps, error rates, or forbidden tool use — pairing with fleet visibility and audit trail for post-incident review.
Common questions
- Who can run a kill switch?
- Role-based access in Mesh restricts halt/pause to on-call and platform roles; every action is audit-logged.
- Can I resume after a halt?
- Yes — recovery workflows clear halt state when fixes ship; paused intents can resume from last durable checkpoint.
- Does halt affect other tenants?
- Kill targets are scoped to agent identity and namespace — not the entire cluster.
Related reading
Deeper dives from the AXME blog.
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