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Enforcement · Containment

Kill switch & circuit breaker.

Cut an agent off in one click — or let it trip automatically on a breach.

in the path

// policy

breach detected → revoke(agent) + quarantine

agent revoked — all actions blocked deny
Why it matters

When an agent goes wrong at 2am, you need it stopped now — not after you've chased its keys down across half a dozen systems.

How it works

Revoke a misbehaving agent across every capability at once, or let a circuit breaker do it for you the moment a policy breach is caught mid-run.

01

Intercept

The agent attempts an action. HiveKey catches it in the path — nothing reaches the tool yet.

02

Evaluate

Revocation propagates through the gateway in the path immediately, and the breaker trips on a breach to quarantine the agent — with every action and the cutoff itself written to one audit trail.

03

Enforce & log

The verdict is enforced — allow, block, or route for approval — and written to the audit trail, attributable to the agent's owner.

Agent

attempts an action

HiveKey

scope · guard · log

Tool / MCP

only allowed actions

What you get

Built for security and platform teams.

One click cuts an agent off across every tool at once

A circuit breaker trips automatically on a breach mid-run

Every revocation logged for the incident review

Part of Guard

Kill switch & circuit breaker is one expression of Guard.

Every capability rides the same spine — Scope what an agent can do, Guard each action in the path, Log all of it on one trail.

Explore Guard

Enforce every action your agents take.

Scope, guard, and log every action — and enforce it in the path, before anything happens.