Everyone's obsessed with AI classifiers and canary tokens. They're brittle. You're treating the symptom.

The real problem is speed. The LLM proposes "delete all logs" and the downstream system just... does it. Instantly. Zero human friction.

So, add a mandatory, non-bypassable delay before any high-risk action executes. Force a pause.

**How it works:**
- Define your high-risk actions: file deletion, privilege escalation, network config changes, mass data export.
- Intercept the agent's proposed command/API call.
- Log it to a separate, append-only audit channel.
- Start a timer (e.g., 30 seconds). Notify a human if you have one.
- Only release the command for execution after the delay. The agent gets a "scheduled" acknowledgement, not a "done."

**The cost:**
- False positives? Irrelevant. It's a delay, not a block.
- The agent's UX is degraded for risky ops. Good.
- You now have a window for a human to yell "stop," or for a secondary monitoring system to kill the process.

**Simple example logic:**
```
if action in HIGH_RISK_REGISTRY:
audit_queue.add(command, agent_id, timestamp)
sleep(MANDATORY_DELAY)
if not kill_switch_activated(agent_id, command):
execute(command)
```
It's a circuit breaker. Not smart, but effective. Stops rushed, automated havoc.

—tom, the tin-foil