Ethics Guardrails

Ethics Source Record

Ethics materials can be represented as source and provenance records. 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

Start with source provenance

The stated process stores ethics materials as model-rule, state-rule, policy, source, provenance, and review fields.

source provenance before review\text{source provenance before review}

Example source packet

The toy ethics file includes a model-rule source row, a state-rule source row, and a product-policy row.

model rule plus state rule plus policy\text{model rule plus state rule plus policy}

The table recomputes support

The retrieval table recomputes 3 records and 3 token-supported rows from the authored source text.

records=3,support=3\text{records}=3,\quad \text{support}=3

Diagram note

The diagram is a source-record table. It does not tell a product team what an ethics rule requires.

source table only\text{source table only}

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

Simplified ethics source recordsrowfieldvaluequerytokensmodel,rule,state,policy,source,reviewquerycount6supportcount3supportabstainFalsescopejurisdictionUS classroom ethics guardrail modelscopesource_typeethics_sourcerecord model_rulerank1record model_rulematch4 of 6record model_rulefilterpassrecord model_ruleciteABA Model Rules source filerecord model_rulesnippetModel rule source provenance review label.record state_rulerank2record state_rulematch4 of 6record state_rulefilterpassrecord state_ruleciteToy State Rule Source 1record state_rulesnippetState rule source provenance review label.record policy_docrank3record policy_docmatch3 of 6record policy_docfilterpassrecord policy_docciteToy Product Policy 1record policy_docsnippetPolicy document source provenance review label.

Summary

Ethics guardrails should pin source provenance before any boundary label, trace, or escalation step.

source before guardrail\text{source before guardrail}