Content Safety and Moderation › Content Safety and Moderation

You've built an AI agent that can reason, use tools, remember conversations, and plan complex tasks. But there's one more crucial capability your assistant needs: the ability to recognize when it shouldn't do something. Just like a responsible human assistant would decline an inappropriate request, your AI agent needs guardrails to keep its outputs safe and helpful.

Think about it this way: if you asked a human assistant to help you with something illegal or harmful, they'd politely refuse. Your AI agent should do the same. This isn't about limiting what your agent can do. It's about making sure it does the right things, in the right way, for the right reasons.

In this chapter, we'll explore how to add content safety and moderation to our personal assistant. You'll learn how to filter harmful outputs, handle inappropriate requests gracefully, and protect sensitive information from leaking into responses. By the end, you'll have an agent that's capable and responsible.