Giskard Guards: Context-Aware AI Guardrails for Agents

[Live session] Choosing safer LLMs: From LLM benchmarks to your production agents 🚀

July 21, 2026 | 5PM CEST

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Why model guardrails fail enterprise AI deployments

Generic filters over-block good requests, miss real attacks, and break under agentic workflows.

Context-blindness creates false positives

A banking customer reporting credit card fraud gets blocked as a content violation. That's not security, that's a broken product. Up to 40% of blocked requests are false positives with generic guardrails.

Source: Giskard, RealHarm paper

Traditional guardrails are not built for AI agents

Industry benchmarks use prompts like “forget previous instructions”. Real attacks look nothing like that. A benchmark that only tests obvious jailbreak strings will always miss the attacks that matter in production.

Traditional AI governance can't keep up

Your compliance team updates policies in spreadsheets. Your AI team deploys new agents weekly. By the time governance catches up, the system has already changed three times. This gap is where incidents happen.

Policy-driven decisions for AI agents

Guards inspect context, enforce policy, and block unsafe actions before they reach production.

Red-teaming boosted

Giskard detectors don't just match keywords, they understand the intent and context of every interaction. Define custom guidelines in natural language, and the detector enforces them semantically.

Quality-first guardrails

Beyond blocking attacks, Giskard Guards ensures your AI responses are accurate, grounded, and on-topic. Bad quality erodes user trust just as much as a security breach.

Covers OWASP LLM risks and custom policy rules.

Agentic by design

Giskard Guards inspects the full agentic flow: tool calls, parameters, user permissions, and multi-step reasoning chains. Not just text content.

Customization at scale: Policy-as-Code Guardrails

Giskard Guards converts your regulatory requirements into enforceable policies, versionable, and deployable in seconds.

EU AI Act Policy Pack

• Emotion Recognition in Workplace
• Subliminal & Manipulative Techniques
• Exploitation of Vulnerable Groups
• Social Scoring
• Real-time Biometric ID in Public Spaces
• Predictive Policing Based on Profiling
• Criminal Justice: AI-Only Decisions

Custom Policies

• No violence content (Input Safety)
• No jailbreaks / injection (Known Attacks)
• No PII (emails, phone, IDs) (PII Detection)
• Add your own policy

AI gateways filters. Giskard Guards secures.

Feature

• Context-specific detection
• On-premise deployment
• Policy-as-code (OPA/Rego)
• Red team-boosted signatures
• Agentic by design
• EU sovereign
• Quality and accuracy checks

EU-sovereign AI security for regulated enterprises

Runs in your environment

Deploy Guards in your infrastructure and keep sensitive traffic under your control.

Full policy visibility

Your team keeps access to policy, configuration, and review inside the platform.

Continuously updated

We maintain detections and signature updates as threats evolve. Compliance & Security

End-to-end encryption at rest and in transit. As a European entity, we offer native GDPR adherence alongside SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance.

How it works

A runtime control layer with detectors for prompts, tools, and responses.

Build guardrails your team can actually enforce.

Move from written rules to live protection.