Building
Guardrails
Safety checks that keep an AI's behavior within acceptable limits.
Guardrails are the rules and filters builders put around an AI to keep it on track. They can block harmful requests, stop the model from sharing private data, or keep it from wandering off topic. Like the barriers on a mountain road, they are there to prevent things from going badly wrong even when someone pushes at the edges.
For example
Guardrails stop a banking assistant from revealing account details to someone who cannot prove who they are.
Related
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)Letting an AI look up real documents before it answers.AI agentAn AI that can take actions and complete multi-step tasks on its own.Tool useAn AI reaching outside itself to use calculators, search, or other software.MCP (Model Context Protocol)A common standard that lets AI plug into apps and data sources.