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Constrains the system, not the text.

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Runtime guardrails versus putting the rules in the prompt: what is the actual difference?

Strongly with the third comment: the durable version is constraining what the system can do, not what it is allowed to say.

A rule in the prompt and a classifier at runtime both operate on text and both fail on anything phrased unusually. A tool that simply does not have permission to issue a refund cannot be talked into issuing one, however clever the input is. That is the only layer that does not degrade under adversarial phrasing.

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