# Guardrail Configurations

Guardrail configurations define the safety policies that protect your LLM interactions. A configuration specifies which safety checks (rails) to apply, the models to use, and the prompts to use for the safety checks.

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## Overview

A guardrail configuration contains several properties that customize how the service interacts with models and applies safety checks. Most configurations define these core components:

1. **Models** – The models to use for each task.
2. **Prompts** – Prompt templates to use for each task.
3. **Rails** – Configuration that defines how to apply checks on the user input or LLM output.

A guardrail configuration also supports general options such as instructions and sample conversations that you can customize.

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## In This Section

-   **[Configuration Structure](configuration-structure.md)**

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    Learn about models, prompts, and rails that make up a configuration.

-   **[Manage Configurations](manage-configs.md)**

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    Create, list, retrieve, update, and delete guardrail configurations.

-   **[Default Configurations](default-configs.md)**

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    Built-in configurations available in the `system` workspace: `default`, `content-safety`, and `self-check`.


