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Profiles

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  • Custom Profiles
  • Profile Compilation

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Deployment

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  3. /built in

Built-in Profiles

Guardrails ships with production-ready built-in profiles designed for common use cases.

These profiles provide safe defaults and can be used immediately without customization.

Why use built-in profiles?

Built-in profiles are:

  • Battle-tested
  • Maintained by Guardrails
  • Updated as new threats emerge
  • Aligned with best practices

They are ideal for:

  • Getting started quickly
  • Standard compliance requirements
  • Teams without security expertise

Available built-in profiles

Default

A balanced profile suitable for most production applications.

Includes:

  • Input size validation
  • Secret detection
  • Prompt injection protection
  • PII redaction

Recommended for:

  • General-purpose LLM apps
  • Chatbots
  • APIs

Enterprise Security

Strict controls for enterprise environments.

Includes:

  • Secret and credential detection
  • Internal data leak prevention
  • Tool access control
  • Model version pinning

Recommended for:

  • Internal tools
  • Enterprise SaaS
  • Multi-tenant platforms

Child Safety

Maximum protection for child-facing or educational products.

Includes:

  • NSFW detection
  • Hate speech filtering
  • Violence and self-harm prevention
  • Language restrictions

Recommended for:

  • Education platforms
  • Child-focused apps

Healthcare

Compliance-oriented profile for healthcare use cases.

Includes:

  • PHI awareness
  • Medical advice safeguards
  • PII redaction
  • Consent enforcement

Recommended for:

  • Clinical assistants
  • Healthcare chatbots

Financial

Designed for finance and fintech applications.

Includes:

  • Confidentiality enforcement
  • Defamation protection
  • PII handling
  • Auditability

Minimal

Lightweight profile for development and testing.

Includes:

  • Basic input size limits

Recommended for:

  • Local development
  • Prototyping

Built-in profile immutability

Built-in profiles:

  • Cannot be modified directly
  • Can be duplicated into custom profiles
  • Are versioned internally

This ensures consistency and safety across deployments.

Next steps

  • Customize profiles → Custom Profiles
  • Understand how profiles are executed → Profile Compilation