Agent Intervention Controller

Software componentHuman OversightExperience & Human Oversightarc:AgentInterventionController

A control component that executes human-issued interventions on a running agent, such as pause, resume, termination or threshold adjustment, enforcing the authorization level required for each and logging who acted.

Responsibility. Carries out authorized human interventions on live agent operations.

Also known as: Intervention pathway, Agent controller (intervention), Pause/terminate control

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MUST pair monitoring with execution capability so humans can act quickly on detected problems.
SHOULD require explicit authorization with logged accountability for high-impact interventions (e.g., pausing an agent) and lighter approval for low-impact configuration changes.

Classification

Quality attributes: Transparency and accountability (NIST AI RMF: accountable and transparent)Safety (ISO/IEC 25010 | NIST AI RMF: safe)
Risks mitigated: Helpless awareness: monitoring without the ability to actUnaccountable interventions

Sources

Ch10.4: T. Nguyen, "Human-in-the-Loop," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.

Agent Intervention Controller

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is configured by structural

is invoked by dependency

writes dependency

emits telemetry to dynamic

overrides control

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