Lesson 1701 of 2116
Agentic AI: rollouts, kill switches, and incident playbooks
Ship agents the way you ship features: behind a flag, with a kill switch, with a written playbook for the first incident.
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Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2progressive rollout
- 3kill switch
- 4incident response
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Section 1
The premise
Agents fail in novel ways the first day in production. Treating them as features behind flags — with a documented stop procedure — turns incidents into bounded events instead of crises.
What AI does well here
- Honor a feature flag check before initializing
- Stop accepting new tasks when a kill flag is set
- Drain in-flight work cleanly when given a shutdown signal
What AI cannot do
- Decide on its own that it should be killed
- Roll itself back to a previous prompt version
- Communicate the incident to stakeholders without your tooling
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