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Emergency Escalation Protocol

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An escalation protocol that urgently engages humans when an agent detects a high-severity situation such as a security incident or a failure affecting critical operations.

Responsibility. Obtains urgent human attention for high-severity situations.

Also known as: Emergency escalation

Variant of Escalation Protocol abstract

When to choose. Choose when agents detect high-severity situations (security incidents, system failures affecting critical operations) requiring urgent human attention.

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Sources

  1. Ch10.5: T. Nguyen, "Human-over-the-Loop," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.