Governance, Safety & Risk Management·Task 5.1·Bloom: understand·Difficulty 2/5·8 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

The Three-Point Guarded Request Path for the CCAR-P Exam

Implement guardrails and safety controls

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In short
A guarded request path has three distinct checkpoints: input screening runs before the model call and decides whether a request should reach the model at all; output screening runs after generation and decides whether the response is safe to return; and tool-call authorization runs before any side-effecting action and decides whether this caller may perform this action in this context. Each answers a different question, so a control at one point provides zero coverage for the other two.

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