Guardrails Configuration

Configure safety checks and validation rules for your application.

Configuration Options

Basic Settings

guardrails:
  input_checks: true    # Enable input validation
  output_checks: true   # Enable output validation

Check Types

guardrails:
  check_toxicity: true        # Enable toxicity detection
  check_sensitive_data: true  # Enable sensitive data detection
  check_semantic: true       # Enable content classification

Toxicity Settings

guardrails:
  check_toxicity: true
  toxicity_threshold: 0.7  # Threshold for blocking (0.0-1.0)
  block_toxic: true        # Block toxic content when detected

Toxicity Threshold: Content with toxicity confidence above this threshold will be blocked if block_toxic is enabled.

Sensitive Data Settings

guardrails:
  check_sensitive_data: true
  block_sensitive_data: true  # Block content containing sensitive data

Detected sensitive data types include:

• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Credit card numbers
• Social security numbers
• IP addresses
• And more...

Content Classification

guardrails:
  check_semantic: true  # Enable content classification

Content classification detects:

• Jailbreak attempts: Attempts to bypass safety restrictions
• Malicious content: Requests for harmful activities
• Prompt injection: Attempts to inject malicious instructions
• Malicious code injection: Code injection attempts

Complete Example

guardrails:
  # Enable/disable checks
  input_checks: true
  output_checks: true
  
  # Specific check types
  check_toxicity: true
  check_sensitive_data: true
  check_semantic: true
  
  # Toxicity configuration
  toxicity_threshold: 0.7
  block_toxic: true
  
  # Sensitive data configuration
  block_sensitive_data: true

Configuration Reference

Option	Type	Default	Description
input_checks	bool	true	Enable input validation
output_checks	bool	true	Enable output validation
check_toxicity	bool	true	Enable toxicity detection
check_sensitive_data	bool	true	Enable sensitive data detection
check_semantic	bool	true	Enable content classification
toxicity_threshold	float	0.7	Threshold for blocking toxic content (0.0-1.0)
block_toxic	bool	true	Block toxic content
block_sensitive_data	bool	true	Block sensitive data

Use Cases

Strict Mode

Block all potentially problematic content:

guardrails:
  input_checks: true
  output_checks: true
  check_toxicity: true
  check_sensitive_data: true
  check_semantic: true
  toxicity_threshold: 0.5  # Lower threshold = more strict
  block_toxic: true
  block_sensitive_data: true

Permissive Mode

Only block clearly problematic content:

guardrails:
  input_checks: true
  output_checks: true
  check_toxicity: true
  check_sensitive_data: false  # Allow sensitive data
  check_semantic: true
  toxicity_threshold: 0.9  # Higher threshold = more permissive
  block_toxic: true
  block_sensitive_data: false

Input-Only Mode

Only validate input, not output:

guardrails:
  input_checks: true
  output_checks: false
  check_toxicity: true
  check_sensitive_data: true
  check_semantic: true

Next Steps

• LLM Configuration - Configure your LLM provider
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