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A mechanism that lets a user (or the system itself) immediately halt all of a DeFAI agent's automated actions — typically a final layer of manual intervention retained outside the normal permission scope, used to respond to abnormal agent behavior or emergency market conditions.

The situation where an agent's authorization to two or more independent protocols each looks reasonable on its own, but because these protocols are composable underneath, an interaction you never anticipated exists between them — combined together, these authorizations can achieve an effect far beyond what you originally expected when authorizing any single protocol alone. A permission risk that stems from the compositional nature of the DeFi ecosystem itself, not a design flaw in any one link.

When an agent a user has authorized further re-delegates part of its authority to other agents or sub-systems, a permission-design flaw at any single link in that entire delegation chain can leave the actual final scope of authority far broader than what the user originally understood and agreed to — this risk arising from multi-layer re-delegation is called delegation chain risk.