AI Glossary

Dead-man switch

The reverse brake: if fourteen days pass with no commit signed by the founder's key, promotions pause where they are.

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See also

  • Kill switch

    One committed file that stops every autonomous seat before it spends anything, because each seat checks for the file before it reads its credential.

  • Ladder

    The staged rollout of new machinery in the org.

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Dead-man switch (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/dead-man-switch

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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