Pause an agent

Immediately stop new spending from a vault, without removing any agent's configured policy.

PolicyVault's covenant-level pause is a whole-vault freeze, not a per-agent switch — pausing a vault stops all agents on it from spending until the owner unpauses. If you need to stop only one specific agent while leaving others active on the same vault, use agent rotation or move that agent to its own vault going forward; pausing the whole vault is the fastest response when you need to stop activity immediately and sort out specifics afterward.

Some hosted deployments additionally offer an agent suspension control as a hosted-coordination convenience: it can instantly stop the hosted platform from building or forwarding new requests for one specific agent, as a fast operational response. This is a coordination control, not a covenant control — it stops PolicyVault from cooperating with that agent's requests, but (unlike a covenant pause) it does not by itself change what the covenant would accept if the agent's key were used directly against a node. Treat a hosted agent suspension as an operational speed bump, and treat a covenant-level pause or key rotation as the actual authority-removing action.

#Steps (covenant-level vault pause)

1. From the vault's page, choose Pause. Only the vault owner's connected wallet can do this.
2. Review and sign. Pause is a single owner-signed covenant operation — it does not require collecting approvals or waiting on any governance ceremony.
3. Confirm on-chain. Once confirmed, the covenant refuses ordinary agent spends against this vault until it is unpaused.

#Unpausing

Repeat the same flow, choosing Unpause. Also owner-only, also a single signed operation.

#After pausing

Pausing does not remove any agent's configured policy — when you unpause, agents' limits are exactly what they were before. If the reason for pausing was a suspected key compromise, use the time while paused to rotate the affected agent's key, or proceed to recover the vault entirely if compromise is confirmed.

See also: Pause/revoke.