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Understand how untrusted text, tools and autonomy create new attack paths.
Guardrail
A guardrail is a rule, validation or approval boundary that limits what an AI system may accept, produce or do.
Think of it like
Think of Guardrail as an input-trust or privilege problem: words can influence software decisions, so boundaries must be explicit.
Real life
Email, documents and web pages can become hostile inputs to AI systems through attacks involving Guardrail.
SRE lens
Require approvals, scope tools and validate outputs before side effects.
Remember thisA guardrail is a rule, validation or approval boundary that limits what an AI system may accept, produce or do.