Kill switch

The emergency kill switch blocks every governed agent action at once. It is checked before anything else, including rules, permissions and approvals. Raqvio Agent Guardrails’s three read-only informational abilities (such as raqvio-ag/get-my-permissions) keep working, so agents can see that the switch is on.

Turn it on or off

Where	How	Expiry
Admin bar (every wp-admin and front-end page)	Agents → Turn kill switch on (block all agents) / Turn kill switch off (allow agents)	None — stays on until turned off
Dashboard	Block all agents, or Block for 1 hour / Turn off	“Block for 1 hour” turns off automatically
Settings → Governance	Emergency kill switch toggle, then Save settings	None

While it is on, the admin bar item reads Agents blocked on a red background, and other admin screens show “Raqvio Agent Guardrails kill switch is on: all AI agent actions are blocked.” Every manual toggle is recorded in the audit log (the automatic end of “Block for 1 hour” is not).

What agents see

Blocked calls fail with error code raqvio_ag_blocked (HTTP 403) and the message “Blocked by Raqvio Agent Guardrails: The Raqvio Agent Guardrails emergency kill switch is on: all AI agent actions are blocked.” Agents can check the state beforehand: raqvio-ag/get-my-permissions returns kill_switch: true.

With Pro, approvals can’t be approved while the kill switch is on (“The kill switch is on. Turn it off before approving agent actions.”).