Guardrails
Domain: Agent Fundamentals
🎯 Motivation
Safety boundaries that prevent agents from taking harmful, dangerous, or unintended actions.
📋 Concrete Example
Guardrails: ‘Never delete files without confirmation’, ‘Max $10 spending per session’, ‘Only read, do not write, in production’, ‘Stop if confidence < 0.5’. They keep the agent safe.
🔗 Analogy
Safety rails on a bridge - they prevent you from falling off. The bridge (agent) can move freely within the rails (guardrails) but can’t go over the edge (dangerous actions).