Glossary AI

Guardrails

Rules and checks that prevent an AI agent from doing things it should not do. Built into prompts, code, or review processes. Prompt-level guardrails are the weakest. Code-level guardrails (the agent literally cannot call the function) are the strongest.

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Override Authority

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