# Implement safeguards for your application by associating a guardrail with your agent
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To implement safeguards and prevent unwanted behavior from model responses or user messages, associate a guardrail with your agent. To learn more about guardrails and how to create them, see [Detect and filter harmful content by using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails](guardrails.md).

You can associate a guardrail with your agent when you [create](agents-create.md) or [update](agents-edit.md) an agent. In the Amazon Bedrock console, you add a guardrail in the **Guardrail details** section of the **Agent builder**. In the Amazon Bedrock API, you specify a [GuardrailConfiguration](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_agent_GuardrailConfiguration.html) when you send a [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_agent_CreateAgent.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_agent_CreateAgent.html) or [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_agent_UpdateAgent.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_agent_UpdateAgent.html) request.