Guidance

What it does

Guidance injects system-prompt text into requests — for example, a house system prompt targeted at a specific group. There is no standalone Guidance surface in the shipped admin console. The legacy per-group model_guidance domain was retired: its objects were migrated into the org’s pinned Guidance pack, and guidance is now authored as inject-guidance chain entries under Security & DLP → Policy Packs / Chain.

Surface retired — authored from the Guidance pack

The former System → Guidance page was deleted (admin-0241 GB-1 migrated the model_guidance objects into the Guidance pack; admin-0243 GB-2 removed the page). Guidance is the pinned, non-terminal request-shaping pack on the policy Chain: an inject-guidance entry carries a system prompt and where it lands relative to the model’s existing instructions, and can be targeted at a group. Author it from Policy Packs, ordered on the Chain. This page is kept as a pointer so existing deep-links land on an accurate explanation.

Configure in the UI

Author guidance as an inject-guidance entry in the pinned Guidance pack: open Security & DLP → Policy Packs, edit the Guidance pack, and add an entry with the system prompt to inject (optionally targeted at a group). The Chain panel controls where the Guidance pack sits relative to your DLP packs. See those pages for the current step-by-step.

Historical capture — the former standalone System → Guidance surface, now folded into the Guidance pack on the ChainCitadel synthetic data on a non-production Arbitex demo instance. Never client data.

Tip

Guidance is advisory request-shaping, never a security control — it fails open. A composed guidance prompt is bounded by a per-entry and a total character cap.

API equivalent

The legacy /api/v1/admin/models-routing/model-guidance/{set,list} routes and the model_guidance config domain are retired. Guidance entries now live on the Guidance policy pack, so they are authored through the policy-pack authoring seam — see Policy Packs → API equivalent and Chain for the current calls and the inject-guidance entry shape.

Plan & availability

Guidance authoring is available on every plan.

Deployment notes

On a Hybrid Outpost, guidance packs are authored and synced the same as on the cloud admin console, scoped to that deployment. In an air-gapped deployment, authoring works fully offline.

Related

• Policy Packs — where the Guidance pack’s inject-guidance entries are composed.
• Chain — where the pinned Guidance pack is ordered relative to your DLP packs.
• Groups & roles — where the groups a guidance entry can target are created and managed.