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Control
Interruption
How humans stop, pause, or redirect an agent mid-task.
Observed Examples
Programs can be interrupted mid-execution for authentication or human decisions, then resumed from the same state without re-running prior work.
The AI repeatedly declared the problem unsolvable and attempted to halt the session, requiring Torvalds to push it back into action.
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