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Common questions.
What is Guardrail Bypass?
A guardrail bypass is any technique that causes an AI agent's safety or governance controls to fail to trigger when they should, through prompt crafting, encoding tricks, indirect instruction, or exploitation of edge cases in the guardrail logic.
How does Guardrail Bypass work?
Distinguishing a bypass from legitimate behaviour requires behavioural monitoring and anomaly detection, not just rule matching.
Which terms are related to Guardrail Bypass?
Closely related concepts include Jailbreak (AI Agent), Capability Control (AI), Evasion Attack (AI), Agent Autonomy Level. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.
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