How to meet it
OWASP AISVS v1.01
Orchestration & Agentic Security · Execution Budgets, Loop Control, and Circuit Breakers
A kill switch for all agents at once
Verify that a swarm-level kill-switch exists that can halt all active agent instances.
OWASP AISVS v1.01, requirement 9.1.3
In plain English
Have one control that stops every running agent at once, for when something goes wrong across the whole system.
What good looks like
- A single action halts all agent instances.
- It works even if individual agents are stuck or misbehaving.
- It is tested and the people who may need it know how to use it.
How teams usually do it
- A global flag checked by the orchestrator before every step, plus the ability to revoke agent credentials in bulk.
Evidence an auditor would accept
- The procedure and the results of the last test.
Common mistakes
- A kill switch that stops new runs but lets running agents finish.
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Requirement text from the OWASP AI Security Verification Standard, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This guidance is shared under the same licence.