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A Criterion is a single, evaluable check — the building block that Controls compose together. A Control combines one or more Criteria using its ANY/ALL operator to decide whether it has been triggered for a given request.

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Fields

  • Name (required)
  • Description (optional)
  • Type — the kind of check the criterion performs; each type has its own configuration (for example, a pattern-match criterion configures a regex, while a classifier-based criterion configures a confidence threshold)

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Status

Criteria can be approved, rejected, or deprecated. Only approved Criteria can be composed into a Control.

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Designing Controls from Criteria

Because Criteria are reusable across Controls, it’s worth defining them at the smallest meaningful granularity — e.g. a single PII pattern, a single toxicity threshold — and composing several into a Control rather than duplicating logic across multiple Controls.