Prompting glossary
Guardrails
Rules that stop unwanted output.
What it means
Guardrails are instructions that protect the result: never invent statistics, never make medical or legal claims, always ask before assuming a fact. In business writing they matter more than clever phrasing.
How to use this in practice
Knowing the word is the easy half. The useful half is writing the instruction so the AI does not have to guess: say who it should act as, give it the background it cannot know, state the outcome you want, set the limits, and name the format the answer should come back in. That is the same structure behind every template in the free prompt library.
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