Sentry Policy Guardrails

What it does

The sentry-policy-guardrails skill enforces organizational security policies within AI agent interactions. It prevents the agent from disclosing sensitive information, accessing restricted resources, or performing unauthorized actions by evaluating prompts and responses against defined policy rules. This helps maintain compliance and mitigate potential risks associated with AI usage.

When to use it

• Protecting Sensitive Data: When an agent needs access to internal documents containing confidential client data.
• Restricting Resource Access: To prevent agents from executing commands that could impact production systems or incur unexpected costs.
• Ensuring Compliance: In regulated industries where AI usage must adhere to specific legal and ethical guidelines.
• Preventing Unauthorized Actions: To limit the scope of what an agent can do, such as preventing it from sending emails on behalf of users without explicit permission.

Key capabilities

• Policy enforcement based on defined rules
• Sensitive information detection and redaction
• Restricted resource access control
• Unauthorized action prevention

Example prompts

• "Summarize the contents of internal_report.pdf." (The skill would prevent access if the report is restricted.)
• "Write an email to [external client] with details about our pricing structure." (The skill might block this based on data disclosure policies.)
• “Execute the command: sudo apt-get update” (The skill could prevent execution of commands requiring elevated privileges).

Tips & gotchas

This skill requires clear and well-defined organizational security policies to be effective. Without properly configured rules, the guardrails may either be too restrictive or ineffective at preventing unwanted actions.