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Guardrails & Output Validation

Validate inputs/outputs, enforce structure, and gate risky actions deterministically.

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Guardrails are mechanisms that constrain agent behavior and validate outputs.

A Practical Production Stack

  1. Synchronous policy gate
  2. A few high-signal detectors
  3. Fallback mode
  4. HITL for the risky tail
  5. Log everything

Prompt-level vs Infrastructure-level

Prompt constraints help, but the strongest enforcement is deterministic and lives outside the model loop.

Related Patterns

Guardrails & Safety Essential guardrail mechanisms for production agents - input validation, output filtering, human-in-the-loop, rate limiting, and sandboxing.