Guardrails & Safe Agent Behavior
Implement practical safety guardrails for AI agents — input and output validation, content filtering, and constrained tool access — to prevent harmful or unintended actions.
From Ethics to Engineering
Ethical principles need enforcement in code. Guardrails are the concrete controls that keep an agent within safe, intended boundaries at runtime.
They act on three points: the input, the model's reasoning, and the output or actions.
Input Guardrails
Check user input before it reaches the agent. Catch:
- Prompt-injection attempts
- Requests for disallowed topics
- Personal data that should be redacted
All lessons in this course
- Ethical Considerations in AI Agents
- Bias, Fairness, and Transparency
- Emerging Trends & Research
- Guardrails & Safe Agent Behavior