Carolopedia
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📖 Carolopedia › BreakerGuide page
📖What it means
The safety trip that halts the pipeline when it detects it is doing damage — looping, burning budget, or repeating a failure. A tripped breaker is the machine protecting itself, not a fault to be cleared without understanding why it fired.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Master switch
The breaker trips itself automatically; the master switch is the operator's deliberate stop.
Not: Watchdog
A breaker STOPS things; a watchdog only alerts.
🗣️Also called
circuit breakertriphalt