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# interrupt • AI Agent SDK

> interrupt: Send a user interrupt to the active session.

# interrupt

Method

> This is a method of the [**ManagedBackendProtocol**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/ManagedBackendProtocol.md) class in the [**protocols**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/protocols.md) module.

Send a user interrupt to the active session.

Signals the managed agent to stop its current work (equivalent to
`user.interrupt` event in the Anthropic API).

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def interrupt() -> None
```

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/protocols.py#L425)
>
> `praisonaiagents/agent/protocols.py` at line 425


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