# Create an Amazon Bedrock guardrail component
Create a guardrail component

You can create a guardrail as a component in an Amazon Bedrock in SageMaker Unified Studio project. You can then add the guardrail component to a chat agent app. You can also create a guardrail component while you are creating a chat agent app. For an example, see [Step 2: Add a guardrail to your chat agent app](create-chat-app-with-components.md#chat-app-add-guardrail).

**To create a guardrail component**

1. Navigate to the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio landing page by using the URL from your administrator.

1. Access Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio using your IAM or single sign-on (SSO) credentials. For more information, see [Access Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio](getting-started-access-the-portal.md).

1. Choose the **Build** menu at the top of the page.

1. In the **MACHINE LEARNING & GENERATIVE AI** section, choose **My apps**.

1. In the **Select or create a new project to continue** dialog box, select the project that you want to use.

1. In the left pane, choose **Asset gallery**.

1. Choose **My components**.

1. In the **Components** section, choose **Create component** and then **Guardrail**. The **Create guardrail** pane is shown.

1. For **Guardrail name**. enter a name for the guardrail.

1. For **Guardrail description** enter a description for the guardrail.

1. In **Content filters** do the following.

   1. Select **Enable content filters** to turn on content filtering. 

   1. For **Filter for prompts**, choose the filters that you want to apply to prompts. For more information, see [Content filters](guardrails.md#guardrails-studio-content-filters).

   1. If you want the filter to apply to responses that the model generates, select **Apply the same filters for responses**.

1. In **Blocked messsaging** do the following:

   1. For **Blocked messaging for prompts** enter a message to display when the guardrail blocks content in the prompt. 

   1. If you want to show a different message when the guardrail blocks content from a model's response, do the following:

      1. Clear **Apply the same message for blocked responses**.

      1. For **Blocked messaging for responses**, enter a message to display when the guardrail blocks content in the response from the model.

1. Add a denied topic filter by doing the following: 

   1. Choose **Use advanced features**.

   1. Choose **Denied topics**.

   1. Choose **Add topic**.

   1. For **Name**, enter a name for the filter.

   1. For **Definition for topic**, enter a definition for the content that you want to deny.

   1. (Optional) To help guide the guardrail, do the folllowing: 

      1. Choose **Sample phrases - optional**.

      1. For **Sample phrases**, enter a phrase.

      1. Choose **Add phrase**.

      1. Add up to four more phrases by repeating the previous two steps.

      1. Choose **Save**.

   For information about denied topics, see [Denied topics](guardrails.md#guardrails-topic-policies).

1. Choose **Create** to create the guardrail.

1. Add the guardrail component to a chat agent app by doing [Add an Amazon Bedrock guardrail component to a chat agent app](add-guardrail-component-chat-app.md).