Resume safely after an environment halt
Inspect in-flight effects, unresolved outcomes and queued work before allowing new agent dispatch after an incident.
An environment halt stops new dispatch after the halt check. It cannot recall a request already accepted by an external server. Resuming therefore requires an inventory of existing work, not just flipping the switch back.
Anlyon's halt applies to its environment execution boundary. Direct calls outside Anlyon remain outside that boundary. Queued delivery work is preserved, but action invocations and delivery queues have different retry semantics; do not assume an unknown action will be replayed on resume.
Establish the stopping point
Record when the halt was applied and which environment it affected. Identify requests dispatched around that time. Inspect their provider evidence, including operations accepted before the halt whose responses arrived later or never arrived.
| Work category | Before resuming |
|---|---|
| Confirmed effects | Assess whether corrective business work is needed |
| Unknown effects | Assign reconciliation and preserve exposure |
| Pending approvals | Recheck relevance, expiry and current policy |
| Queued deliveries | Review destinations and expected release behavior |
| New invocations | Keep blocked until the underlying cause is addressed |
This inventory is especially important if the incident involved an incorrect target or excessive action quantity.
Fix the source of the incident
Review action definitions, credentials, policy and applicable impact limits. Revoke unnecessary alternate access. If an agent can still call the provider directly, repairing the hosted action alone will not contain that path.
Check whether a version rollback is appropriate, remembering it changes future definitions rather than undoing existing effects. Lowering a limit also leaves previous exposure intact.
Resume with observable work
Choose a low-impact, explicitly authorized operation and inspect its full result. Watch new refusals, pending approvals and unknown outcomes. Keep an operator responsible for unresolved pre-halt work. Do not declare recovery solely because new requests return HTTP 200.
Document which environment resumed, what changed and what remains unresolved. That record helps distinguish recovery traffic from the original incident.
Follow environment controls, rollback boundaries and limit reduction.