AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is interrupt (agent)?
Interrupt (agent) (also called Breakpoint): A mechanism that pauses a running agent workflow at a chosen point, saves its state, and waits for outside input such as a human decision, then resumes from the same place. It requires state to be checkpointed so nothing is lost.
Interrupt (agent): an example
A graph pauses at the 'send_email' node, shows the draft to the user, and continues after they edit and approve it.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- JSON-RPC
- Kill switch
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Least privilege for agents
- LlamaIndex
- Long-term memory
- Max iterations
Where you learn it
Interrupt (agent) is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.