Guardrails Writer
The Guardrails Writer generates effective AI safety prompts and guidelines, ensuring your models produce helpful and harmless outputs.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add guardrails-writer npx -- -y @trustedskills/guardrails-writer
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"guardrails-writer": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/guardrails-writer"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The guardrails-writer skill helps AI agents generate structured guardrail documents. It can take a prompt and output a formatted document suitable for use with guardrails systems, ensuring consistent and enforceable safety protocols. This facilitates the creation of robust and reliable AI agent behavior.
When to use it
- Defining Agent Boundaries: When you need to clearly outline acceptable behaviors and limitations for an AI agent in specific scenarios.
- Automating Guardrail Creation: To streamline the process of generating guardrails, reducing manual effort and potential inconsistencies.
- Ensuring Safety Compliance: When building agents that must adhere to strict safety guidelines or regulatory requirements.
- Standardizing Responses: When you need a consistent format for how your agent responds in certain situations.
Key capabilities
- Generates structured guardrail documents.
- Accepts prompts as input.
- Formats output for compatibility with guardrails systems.
Example prompts
- "Write a guardrail document for an AI assistant that provides financial advice, ensuring it avoids giving specific investment recommendations."
- "Generate a guardrail outlining acceptable responses when the agent is asked about sensitive personal information."
- “Create a guardrail to ensure the agent only uses positive and encouraging language.”
Tips & gotchas
The quality of the generated guardrail depends heavily on the clarity and specificity of the input prompt. Providing detailed context and desired constraints will yield better results.
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