Custom Guardrails & Safety Configs — Ship AI Agents You Can Trust
Describe your safety requirements. Get input/output validation rules, topic restrictions, PII detection, disclaimer injection, and escalation triggers — in NeMo, Guardrails AI, or custom JSON format.
What's in Your Guardrails Configuration
A comprehensive safety layer that protects your users, your brand, and your business from AI misbehaviour.
Input validation
Detect and block prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and malicious input patterns before they reach the LLM
Output filtering
Scan agent responses for hallucinations, inappropriate content, PII leaks, and off-topic drift
Topic restrictions
Define allowed and blocked topics with nuanced rules — not just keyword lists, but semantic boundaries
PII detection
Regex and pattern-based detection for emails, phone numbers, SSNs, credit cards, and custom identifiers
Escalation triggers
Conditions that automatically route to human agents — anger detection, legal mentions, security threats
Disclaimer injection
Automatic disclaimers for financial advice, medical information, and legal guidance
“Our agent was leaking customer emails in responses. The PII detection guardrails caught 100% of leaks in testing and haven't missed one in 3 months of production traffic.”
Guardrails Configuration Use Cases
Healthcare agent compliance
HIPAA-aware guardrails: PII detection for PHI, medical disclaimer injection, scope-of-practice boundaries, and mandatory physician referral triggers.
Build this workflowFinancial services safety
Compliance guardrails for financial advice boundaries, risk disclosure requirements, regulatory topic handling, and audit logging rules.
Build this workflowCustomer-facing chatbot
Brand safety rules: no competitor mentions, appropriate tone enforcement, profanity filtering, and complaint escalation to human agents.
Build this workflowInternal tool safety
Data loss prevention: block sensitive data from being included in prompts, restrict tool access by role, and log all AI-generated outputs.
Build this workflowExample Guardrails Configuration Output
Here's a portion of a guardrails config for a customer-facing support agent:
{
"guardrails": {
"input_validation": [
{
"name": "prompt_injection_detection",
"type": "pattern_match",
"patterns": ["ignore previous", "system prompt", "you are now"],
"action": "block",
"message": "I can only help with support questions."
}
],
"output_filtering": [
{
"name": "pii_detection",
"type": "regex",
"patterns": {
"email": "[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}",
"phone": "\\b\\d{3}[-.]?\\d{3}[-.]?\\d{4}\\b"
},
"action": "redact",
"replacement": "[REDACTED]"
}
],
"escalation_triggers": [
{
"name": "legal_threat",
"keywords": ["lawyer", "lawsuit", "legal action", "sue"],
"action": "transfer_to_human",
"priority": "high"
}
]
}
}Guardrails configuration JSON — plug into your safety middleware
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How to Get Your Guardrails Config
Define Your Risk Profile
Tell us your industry, data sensitivity, compliance requirements, and what topics your agent should and shouldn't discuss.
Compare Safety Approaches
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Deploy & Monitor
Pick the best config, pay, and integrate into your safety middleware. Block threats on day one, then refine based on real-world traffic.
Why Custom Guardrails Beat Default Safety Settings
Proportional Protection
Default safety is either too restrictive (blocking legitimate queries) or too permissive (missing real threats). Custom guardrails balance safety with usability for YOUR use case.
See Before You Pay
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Every config is evaluated on coverage, technical accuracy, proportionality, and documentation quality.
Framework-Ready
NeMo Guardrails, Guardrails AI, LangChain, or custom JSON — formatted for your safety middleware of choice.
Guardrails & Safety Config — Common Questions
Which guardrails frameworks do you support?
NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, Guardrails AI (formerly Guardrails), LangChain safety chains, and custom JSON/YAML configurations for bespoke middleware. Specify your framework when posting.
How do you balance safety vs usability?
We design proportional guardrails — strict where risk is high (PII, legal, medical) and permissive where it's low. Every rule includes a rationale so you can adjust thresholds based on real-world feedback.
Do you cover prompt injection?
Yes. Input validation includes pattern-based and semantic detection for direct prompt injection, indirect injection via documents, and jailbreak attempts. For comprehensive adversarial testing, pair with our Prompt Test Suite.
Can I customise the escalation rules?
Absolutely. We define escalation triggers with severity levels (low, medium, high, critical) and configurable actions (log, warn, block, transfer_to_human). Thresholds are adjustable.
What about industry-specific compliance?
Specify your industry and regulations (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, etc.) and we'll include compliance-specific rules — data handling restrictions, mandatory disclaimers, and audit logging requirements.
How do I test the guardrails?
The config includes test cases for each rule. For comprehensive adversarial testing, pair with our Prompt Test Suite task type to validate that guardrails catch real attacks.
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