AI Kill Switch
“Most platforms have one kill switch, for one kind of thing. We built five, because an incident is never just one kind of thing.”
Why It Matters
A real incident is never just one kind of thing. It touches an agent's identity, the MCP tools it calls, the non-human credential behind it, the cloud workload it's running on, and every other agent sharing its blast radius — all at once. A kill switch that only covers one of those is a kill switch that misses the other four. AI-agent exploits are consistently one of the largest categories in monthly breach tracking — and almost none of them stay contained to the agent layer alone.
How RuntimeAI Helps
Five purpose-built kill switches from one Kill Switch console.
Agent Kill Switch halts a single compromised agent or an entire tenant's fleet in under 50ms. MCP Kill Switch severs all MCP server/tool/gateway connections instantly, independent of the agent layer. NHI Kill Switch applies tiered control to the non-human identity itself — L1 throttles to 10% of baseline, L2 suspends API access (credential stays valid, fully reversible), L3 revokes the credential at the vault outright. Cloud Kill Switch does the same tiering for the underlying workload — L1 rate-limit, L2 block egress, L3 full network isolation with IAM/RBAC revocation — across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Catalog Kill Switch stops every agent tied to one incident together, as a group, with a signed forensic export (credential inventory, optional in-flight prompt/completion capture) ready for the investigation. A single red "Kill Switch" button in the dashboard header opens all five as tabs in one place, with a typed confirmation step and 2FA gating for the blast-radius options — so firing one is fast, but never an accident.
The Five Kill Switch Types
One console, five independent surfaces — pick exactly the blast radius the incident calls for.
Confirmation & Quick-Fire
Fast to fire, never an accident.
Illustrative Scenario
An agent's behavior drifts outside its normal pattern. Agent Kill Switch freezes it in under 50ms. The investigation finds it was invoked through a specific MCP tool — MCP Kill Switch severs that tool's gateway connections so nothing else can reach it while the review continues. The underlying service account gets throttled with NHI Kill Switch L1, then revoked at L3 once the credential is confirmed compromised. If three other agents touched the same catalog entry this incident came from, Catalog Kill Switch stops all of them together and exports the forensic package in one action.
See It In Action
Real recorded demo clips — no slides, no mockups.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop a Rogue AI Agent in Milliseconds.
Five kill switches, one console, fully reversible and audited. See it fire live.