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Guardrail Design Template

A one-page template to specify the guardrails for a single agent decision before any code is written.

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Decision

Name: ____________________   Owner: ____________________

Inputs the agent sees: ______________________________________

Action it may take: ______________________________________

Bounds (enforced in code)

BoundValueOn breach
Maximum change per cycle (step limit)clamp / escalate
Floorreject
Ceilingreject
Rate limitqueue
Minimum data required to actsuggest only

Policy checks (after the model, before the action)

  1. ______________________________________
  2. ______________________________________
  3. ______________________________________

Escalation

Route to a human when: ______________________________________

Who: ____________________   Within: ________

Reversal

Snapshot of: ____________________   Rollback window: ________

Evaluation

Scorer: ______________________   Pass threshold: ________   Eval set size: ________

Sign-off

Engineering ________   Business owner ________   Compliance ________   Date ________

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