Input guardrail

A guardrail that checks or filters what goes into a model before the model processes it.

Also called

  • Input filter
  • Input validation
  • Prompt filter

Kind of

  • Guardrail A check, built into the harness or written into the instructions, that screens what goes in, what comes out, or what an agent tries to do.

Related

  • Prompt injection A type of AI system attack where text the system reads contains instructions, and the system follows them as if they came from its user or owner.

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