Control Tower
The live operations console for the whole agent fleet — watch, gate, pause, or kill.
category ▸ Operations
Control Tower, in plain language.
A control tower is the single pane of glass over every agent in production: live runs, costs, denials, reliability, identities needing review, and tool-server status, aggregated so an operator can see the whole fleet at once. It is the supervisory layer that turns a sprawl of autonomous agents into something a human can actually oversee.
More than a dashboard, a control tower is a place to act. Seeing a degrading or misbehaving agent is only useful if you can intervene immediately — pause it, tighten its oversight, or stop it entirely — from the same console.
How Cortex implements it.
This term isn't abstract here — it maps to a real capability in the runtime. Here is exactly how Cortex enforces or relates to it.
Cortex's Control Tower aggregates fleet-wide signal — average reliability and below-threshold counts, policy rules and tests, budget status, MCP server health, and identity recertification — into one overview with live KPIs and CSV export.
It is also where you intervene: pause a degrading agent, gate its activity, or kill it, with every supervisory action sealed into the Trust Ledger. This delivers the live supervision that frameworks like FINRA Rule 3110 expect.
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Kill switch
An instant control that stops an agent or tool server from acting, immediately.
Reliability score
A 0–100 quality score per agent that gates which versions are allowed to publish.
Oversight modes
Per-agent autonomy levels that decide whether an action executes now or waits for a human.
Agent Studio
Where governed agents are built, chat-tested, and published — behind a reliability gate.
See Control Tower enforced, not just defined.
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