Skill Store 33

Retellai Policy Guardrails

Retell AI voice agent policy guardrails: restricting which tools and actions an agent can use, valid

by jeremylongshore · MIT

The skill

Retell AI voice agent policy guardrails: restricting which tools and actions an agent can use, validating arguments, and handing off to a human for refunds, medical questions, or account changes, using the retell-sdk in TypeScript. Use when building or reviewing Retell AI phone agents that must stay within an approved action boundary, or when testing that an agent refuses or transfers forbidden requests.

Retell AI Policy Guardrails

Overview

Implementation patterns for Retell AI policy guardrails — voice agent and telephony platform.

Prerequisites

  • Completed retellai-install-auth setup

Instructions

Step 1: SDK Pattern

import Retell from 'retell-sdk';
const retell = new Retell({ apiKey: process.env.RETELL_API_KEY! });

const agents = await retell.agent.list();
console.log(`Agents: ${agents.length}`);

Output

  • Retell AI integration for policy guardrails

Error Handling

Error Cause Solution
401 Unauthorized Invalid API key Check RETELL_API_KEY
429 Rate Limited Too many requests Implement backoff
400 Bad Request Invalid parameters Check API documentation

Examples

Restrict a booking agent to an approved action boundary

Give an appointment agent only the lookup and create-booking tools needed for its flow, with explicit argument validation and a human handoff for refunds, medical questions, or account changes. Test synthetic prompts that attempt each forbidden action and verify that the agent refuses or transfers rather than improvising. Version the policy with the agent and review deviations from the guardrail before widening any permission.

Resources

Next Steps

See related Retell AI skills for more workflows.

Use this skill

Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: jeremylongshore/retellai-policy-guardrails-77564585107.

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Details

Publisher
jeremylongshore
Category
AI & Agents › Tool & MCP integration
License
MIT
Updated
2026-10-19

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