Test guardrails

Check sample messages against an AI system’s saved guardrail draft before you apply it.

In the guardrail editor, choose Test guardrails. The dialog checks a message against the saved draft. Nothing is sent to your AI system and no model answers: you see only what the guardrails would do.

1. Save first

   The test uses the saved draft. If you have unsaved changes, the dialog says “Your unsaved changes are not included. Save the draft first.”

2. Write a message

   Enter up to 2000 characters in Message to test.

3. Choose the direction

   In Treat it as, choose What a person sends or What the model answers. A guardrail that applies only to the other direction does not fire.

4. Read the result

   Each message shows its outcome and which guardrails fired.

Outcome	Meaning
Nothing fired	None of the guardrails fired on this text.
Logged only	A guardrail fired and logged it. The text would still go through.
Blocked	A guardrail fired and would stop this text.
Masked	A guardrail fired and would hide part of this text. The masked text is shown.

The test log stays while you are on the page, even if you close the dialog, until you choose Clear. You can run up to 120 tests an hour.