Input Output Guardrails

What it does

This skill provides input and output guardrails for AI agents. It helps to constrain the agent's behavior by defining acceptable inputs and outputs, preventing undesirable actions or responses. The skill allows developers to customize these boundaries based on specific application requirements and safety considerations.

When to use it

• Content Moderation: Ensure an agent generating text doesn’t produce harmful or inappropriate content.
• Data Security: Prevent agents from accessing or revealing sensitive information through restricted inputs and outputs.
• Task Boundaries: Limit the scope of an agent's actions, ensuring it stays within defined operational parameters.
• Controlled Interactions: Manage user interactions with an agent to maintain a predictable and safe conversational flow.

Key capabilities

• Input validation
• Output filtering
• Customizable guardrail rules
• Behavioral constraints

Example prompts

• "Set up input guardrails to block requests containing profanity."
• "Define output filters to prevent the agent from sharing personal information."
• "Restrict the agent's actions to only include summarizing documents and answering questions about them."

Tips & gotchas

The effectiveness of this skill depends on carefully defining your guardrail rules. Insufficient or overly broad rules can either hinder the agent’s usefulness or fail to prevent undesirable behavior.