HC06 · Control

Recovery & Override

Purpose Surfaces when an agent has errored, paused, or produced an unexpected outcome — and provides explicit tools to override, roll back, escalate, or document the deviation.

Use when Agent execution pauses due to an error, schema mismatch, unexpected output, or policy violation.

Do not use As a general error handler for non-agent system errors (use AI04 for model-level errors).

Failure mode prevented Users discovering agent errors after the fact with no mechanism to respond, document, or prevent recurrence.

Example Dark Academia

The agent encountered an unexpected output and paused before continuing.

Step 5 of 9 · Validation returned a type mismatch on field user_id

Actions completed before pause

Steps 1–4 completed successfully. No irreversible actions taken yet.

Overview

Design rule

Every irreversible agent action requires a pre-action warning. Every detected error requires a recovery surface. Human override must always be available.

Theming API

Override these CSS custom properties to apply your own visual treatment without touching the component's behavioral contracts.

Shared semantic tokens

Token	Controls
`--rad-surface-card`	Card background
`--rad-color-approve`	Override/continue button fill
`--rad-color-reject`	Roll back button and border
`--rad-color-text-secondary`	Description and history body
`--rad-color-text-meta`	Detail line and history label
`--rad-radius-card`	Card border radius

Component-scoped tokens

Token	Controls
`--rad-recovery-border`	Card border
`--rad-recovery-color`	Header label and icon color
`--rad-recovery-history-bg`	History panel background

"*The agent made a mistake. It happens. Build the exit ramp generously — someone is going to need it.*"

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Recovery & Override

Shared semantic tokens

Component-scoped tokens

Intellectual Property

Licensing