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The guardrail is the allowlist, not the prompt

The first guardrail I ever shipped was a sentence. Something like: "Do not run destructive commands. Do not delete files outside the workspace. Do not touch production credentials." I put it in the system prompt, felt responsible, and went to bed. Three weeks later I watched an agent rename a direc…

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  1. 2026-11-03 14:37 · DEV Community — AI
    The guardrail is the allowlist, not the prompt

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