Operating the Kill Switch | Agent Skills Atlas

About this skill

Provides an out-of-band stop control (throttle/pause/stop) for autonomous or long-running agent loops via a .claude/KILL file the agent cannot disable. Use for unattended or multi-step autonomous runs; arm with killswitch = true in .claude/HARNESS.toml.

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Category: General
Reported license: Not specified
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.