Guardrails run in parallel to your agents, enabling you to do checks and validations of user input. For example, imagine you have an agent that uses a very smart (and hence slow/expensive) model to help with customer requests. You wouldn't want malicious users to ask the model to help them with their math homework. So, you can run a guardrail with a fast/cheap model. If the guardrail detects malicious usage, it can immediately raise an error, which stops the expensive model from running and saves you time/money.
There are two kinds of guardrails:
Input guardrails run in 3 steps:
GuardrailFunctionOutput
, which is then wrapped in an InputGuardrailResult
.tripwire_triggered
is true. If true, an InputGuardrailTripwireTriggered
exception is raised, so you can appropriately respond to the user or handle the exception.Note
Input guardrails are intended to run on user input, so an agent's guardrails only run if the agent is the first agent. You might wonder, why is the guardrails
property on the agent instead of passed to Runner.run
? It's because guardrails tend to be related to the actual Agent - you'd run different guardrails for different agents, so colocating the code is useful for readability.
Output guardrails run in 3 steps:
GuardrailFunctionOutput
, which is then wrapped in an OutputGuardrailResult
.tripwire_triggered
is true. If true, an OutputGuardrailTripwireTriggered
exception is raised, so you can appropriately respond to the user or handle the exception.Note
Output guardrails are intended to run on the final agent output, so an agent's guardrails only run if the agent is the last agent. Similar to the input guardrails, we do this because guardrails tend to be related to the actual Agent - you'd run different guardrails for different agents, so colocating the code is useful for readability.
TripwiresIf the input or output fails the guardrail, the Guardrail can signal this with a tripwire. As soon as we see a guardrail that has triggered the tripwires, we immediately raise a {Input,Output}GuardrailTripwireTriggered
exception and halt the Agent execution.
You need to provide a function that receives input, and returns a GuardrailFunctionOutput
. In this example, we'll do this by running an Agent under the hood.
from pydantic import BaseModel
from agents import (
Agent,
GuardrailFunctionOutput,
InputGuardrailTripwireTriggered,
RunContextWrapper,
Runner,
TResponseInputItem,
input_guardrail,
)
class MathHomeworkOutput(BaseModel):
is_math_homework: bool
reasoning: str
guardrail_agent = Agent( # (1)!
name="Guardrail check",
instructions="Check if the user is asking you to do their math homework.",
output_type=MathHomeworkOutput,
)
@input_guardrail
async def math_guardrail( # (2)!
ctx: RunContextWrapper[None], agent: Agent, input: str | list[TResponseInputItem]
) -> GuardrailFunctionOutput:
result = await Runner.run(guardrail_agent, input, context=ctx.context)
return GuardrailFunctionOutput(
output_info=result.final_output, # (3)!
tripwire_triggered=result.final_output.is_math_homework,
)
agent = Agent( # (4)!
name="Customer support agent",
instructions="You are a customer support agent. You help customers with their questions.",
input_guardrails=[math_guardrail],
)
async def main():
# This should trip the guardrail
try:
await Runner.run(agent, "Hello, can you help me solve for x: 2x + 3 = 11?")
print("Guardrail didn't trip - this is unexpected")
except InputGuardrailTripwireTriggered:
print("Math homework guardrail tripped")
Output guardrails are similar.
from pydantic import BaseModel
from agents import (
Agent,
GuardrailFunctionOutput,
OutputGuardrailTripwireTriggered,
RunContextWrapper,
Runner,
output_guardrail,
)
class MessageOutput(BaseModel): # (1)!
response: str
class MathOutput(BaseModel): # (2)!
reasoning: str
is_math: bool
guardrail_agent = Agent(
name="Guardrail check",
instructions="Check if the output includes any math.",
output_type=MathOutput,
)
@output_guardrail
async def math_guardrail( # (3)!
ctx: RunContextWrapper, agent: Agent, output: MessageOutput
) -> GuardrailFunctionOutput:
result = await Runner.run(guardrail_agent, output.response, context=ctx.context)
return GuardrailFunctionOutput(
output_info=result.final_output,
tripwire_triggered=result.final_output.is_math,
)
agent = Agent( # (4)!
name="Customer support agent",
instructions="You are a customer support agent. You help customers with their questions.",
output_guardrails=[math_guardrail],
output_type=MessageOutput,
)
async def main():
# This should trip the guardrail
try:
await Runner.run(agent, "Hello, can you help me solve for x: 2x + 3 = 11?")
print("Guardrail didn't trip - this is unexpected")
except OutputGuardrailTripwireTriggered:
print("Math output guardrail tripped")
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