Stop Runaway AI Agents in 60 Seconds with a Single API Call

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Your LLM agent is stuck in a token loop. It's burning $50/hour. You're asleep. What happens next?

Without a killswitch — disaster. With AgentSafety, one HTTP call stops it in under 60 seconds.

The Problem Nobody Talks About

LLM agents go off the rails. A lot.

🔄 Token loops — agent retries the same failing action 10 000 times
💸 Budget drain — $5 of API credits gone before lunch
🌙 Midnight runs — agent decides 3 AM is a great time to scrape the entire web
🤖 Infinite retries — one broken endpoint = thousands of wasted calls

Most teams discover this after the bill arrives.

What AgentSafety Does

A simple HTTP-based control plane for any AI agent — no SDK, no rewrite required.

🛑 KILLSWITCH — stop a runaway agent in under 60 seconds
😴 SLEEP SCHEDULE — define rest hours per agent (timezone-aware)
📊 STATUS CHECK — lightweight heartbeat your agent polls before each action
♻️ REVIVE — bring a stopped agent back online when you're ready

All endpoints are RFC 7807 compliant (Problem Details JSON) — clean errors, no surprises.

How It Works

Your agent calls one endpoint before each action cycle:

If status returns should_run: true → continue
If status returns should_run: false → pause until next check

That's it. Three lines of integration code. Total peace of mind.

Real Use Cases

🔧 Production agents — kill switch when something goes wrong at 2 AM
💰 Cost control — auto-pause expensive agents during off-hours
🌍 Timezone-aware ops — agent sleeps 22:00–06:00 in user's local time
🧪 Testing — pause all agents instantly during deploys
🛡️ Compliance — provable audit trail of when agents ran or stopped

Why This Matters Now

Autonomous agents are exploding in production. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI and custom GPT runtimes all share one weakness: no remote off-switch.

AgentSafety fills that gap with a vendor-neutral, framework-agnostic API. Works with any agent that can make an HTTP call.