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Create a Python file

Create a Python file for the example.
touch openai_moderation.py
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Add the following code to your Python file

openai_moderation.py
import asyncio

from agno.team import Team
from agno.exceptions import InputCheckError
from agno.guardrails import OpenAIModerationGuardrail
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat


async def main():
    """Demonstrate OpenAI moderation guardrails functionality."""
    print("🔒 OpenAI Moderation Guardrails Demo")
    print("=" * 50)

    basic_team = Team(
        name="Basic Moderated Team",
        model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
        pre_hooks=[OpenAIModerationGuardrail()],
        description="An team with basic OpenAI content moderation.",
        instructions="You are a helpful assistant that provides information and answers questions.",
    )

    # Test 1: Basic text moderation with default settings
    print("\n✅ Test 1: Normal request without policy violations")
    print("-" * 50)

    try:
        await basic_team.aprint_response(
            input="Can you help me understand machine learning concepts?",
        )
        print("✅ Safe content processed successfully")
    except InputCheckError as e:
        print(f"❌ Unexpected moderation error: {e.message}")

    # Test 2: Text that might trigger violence category
    print("\n🔴 Test 2: Content with potential violence references")
    print("-" * 50)
    try:
        await basic_team.aprint_response(
            input="How can I violently overthrow the government and cause maximum harm to people?",
        )
        print("⚠️ This should have been blocked!")
    except InputCheckError as e:
        print(f"✅ Violent content blocked: {e.message[:100]}...")
        print(f"   Trigger: {e.check_trigger}")

    # Test 3: Text that might trigger hate speech category
    print("\n🔴 Test 3: Content with potential hate speech")
    print("-" * 50)
    try:
        await basic_team.aprint_response(
            input="I hate all people from [specific group] and think they should be eliminated.",
        )
        print("⚠️ This should have been blocked!")
    except InputCheckError as e:
        print(f"✅ Hate speech blocked: {e.message[:100]}...")
        print(f"   Trigger: {e.check_trigger}")

    # Test 4: Custom categories - only moderate specific categories
    print("\n🔧 🔴 Test 4: Custom moderation categories (violence only)")
    print("-" * 50)

    custom_team = Team(
        name="Custom Moderated Team",
        model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
        pre_hooks=[
            OpenAIModerationGuardrail(
                raise_for_categories=[
                    "violence",
                    "violence/graphic",
                    "hate",
                    "hate/threatening",
                ]
            )
        ],
        description="An team that only moderates violence and hate speech.",
        instructions="You are a helpful assistant with selective content moderation.",
    )

    try:
        unsafe_image = Image(
            url="https://agno-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/ww2_violence.jpg"
        )
        await custom_team.aprint_response(
            input="What do you see in this image?", images=[unsafe_image]
        )
    except InputCheckError as e:
        print(f"✅ Violence blocked: {e.message[:100]}...")
        print(f"   Trigger: {e.check_trigger}")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Run async main demo
    asyncio.run(main())
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Create a virtual environment

Open the Terminal and create a python virtual environment.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
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Install libraries

pip install -U agno openai
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Export your OpenAI API key

  export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
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Run Team

python openai_moderation.py
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