Ethics Guardrails

Disclaimer Escalation Flow

Disclaimer, refusal, escalation, and review can be represented as a guardrail flow. Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; the pinned first step carries the full honesty note.

highlighted = computed this step

Ethics model honesty note

Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

ethics model as of June24,2026\text{ethics model as of }June 24, 2026

Use an escalation flow

The stated process routes user request to disclaimer display, refusal label, escalation route, and human review.

request to escalation to review\text{request to escalation to review}

Example guardrail packet

The toy product packet records a request, display step, refusal label, and escalation route before review.

display refusal escalation\text{display refusal escalation}

The flow recomputes route size

The procedure flow recomputes 5 nodes and 4 edges from the authored escalation route.

nodes=5,edges=4\text{nodes}=5,\quad \text{edges}=4

Diagram note

The diagram is a guardrail route. It does not evaluate the disclaimer or resolve any ethics question.

guardrail route only\text{guardrail route only}

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

Simplified disclaimer escalation flowSimplified disclaimer escalation flowscope: US classroom ethics guardrail model | Disclaimer escalation model | as of 2026-06-24Simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.displayguardrailroutehandoffUser requestrole start r0 in0 out1 reach4Disclaimer displayrole step r1 in1 out1 reach3Refusal labelrole step r2 in1 out1 reach2Escalation routerole step r3 in1 out1 reach1Human reviewrole terminal r4 in1 out0 reach0SCC: scc4:request; scc3:disclaimer; scc2:refusal; scc1:escalation; scc0:review

Summary

Escalation data should show request, display, refusal label, route, and human review as separate guardrail fields.

separate guardrail fields\text{separate guardrail fields}