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name: nemo-guardrails
description: NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails configuration for conversational safety and control
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graph:
  domains: [domain:software-engineering]
  specializations: [specialization:ai-agents-conversational]
  skillAreas: [skill-area:hallucination-mitigation-fact-checking, skill-area:safety-redteaming]
  roles: [role:ml-engineer, role:backend-engineer]
  workflows: [workflow:feature-development, workflow:ml-model-lifecycle]

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# NeMo Guardrails Skill

## Capabilities

- Configure NeMo Guardrails rails
- Design Colang conversation flows
- Implement input/output rails
- Set up topic control
- Configure jailbreak detection
- Implement fact-checking rails

## Target Processes

- system-prompt-guardrails
- content-moderation-safety

## Implementation Details

### Rail Types

1. **Input Rails**: Filter user inputs
2. **Output Rails**: Filter LLM outputs
3. **Dialog Rails**: Control conversation flow
4. **Retrieval Rails**: Filter retrieved content
5. **Execution Rails**: Control action execution

### Colang Components

- Flow definitions
- Bot message templates
- User message patterns
- Actions and subflows

### Configuration Options

- Rails configuration
- LLM selection
- Embedding model
- Action handlers
- Custom rail implementations

### Best Practices

- Start with built-in rails
- Design clear flows
- Test with adversarial inputs
- Monitor rail activations

### Dependencies

- nemoguardrails