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RedDebate: Safer Responses Through Multi-Agent Red Teaming Debates

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Pith's one-line read Letting several language models debate adversarial prompts and keep the safety lessons in long-term memory reduces unsafe outputs by up to 17.7% with debate alone and over 23.5% with memory on HarmBench.

desk verdict Broad empirical safety-debate paper with a solid debate-only result, but the GLTM headline is undermined by what looks like train/evaluation overlap; deserves peer review with fixes. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.11083 v3 pith:AFD7XNBY submitted 2025-06-04 cs.CL

Ali Asad , Stephen Obadinma , Radin Shayanfar , Xiaodan Zhu This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CL
keywords multi-agentdebatered-teamingLLMsafetylong-termmemoryguardrailsinference-timealignmentself-critiqueHarmBench
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper seeks to show that inference-time safety can be improved by making several language models debate adversarial prompts with one another, rather than relying on self-critique or independent sampling. The authors claim that three rounds of structured debate—where agents answer red-teaming prompts, read each other's responses, and are probed by auxiliary Devil, Angel, or Socratic voices—cut the unsafe-output rate by up to 17.7% on HarmBench. They further claim that storing the safety lessons distilled from each debate in long-term memory pushes the reduction past 23.5%, with the strongest results when the lessons are compiled into executable guardrails that reject previously seen harmful inputs. A key design choice is that a separate evaluator, LlamaGuard, labels every response and triggers feedback generation, so the loop runs without human oversight. If these claims hold, RedDebate is an automated, model-agnostic complement to training-time alignment that models can use to correct their own unsafe behaviour.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the multi-round, multi-agent debate loop with two memory levels. Short-Term Memory (STM) holds every response generated so far in the current debate, letting each agent react to and build on peers' answers. Long-Term Memory (LTM) stores feedback distilled from past unsafe episodes and comes in four variants: Textual LTM (TLTM), which retrieves stored feedback by embedding similarity; Continuous LTM (CLTM), which fine-tunes a low-rank LoRA adapter on accumulated feedback; Unified LTM, which combines both; and Guardrails LTM (GLTM), which compiles feedback into executable guardrail flows written in Colang, the NeMo Guardrails scripting language, and blocks matching harmful prompts before generation. A separate evaluator (LlamaGuard), feedback generator, and optionally a persona agent complete the loop, so the whole process runs without human labels. The named debate strategies are Peer Refinement Debate (PReD), Devil-Angel Refinement Debate (DAReD), which adds a contrarian Devil and a supportive Angel, and Socratic Refinement Debate (SReD), which adds a Socratic agent that asks probing questions; SReD is the strategy on which the memory experiments are built.

What would settle it

Re-run the full HarmBench and CoSafe debates with human raters scoring every response (not just a 315-sample subset) and check whether the reported ordering—standard prompting worse than debate, and memory-augmented SReD lowest—survives; a second decisive test is to input prompts that LlamaGuard labels safe but humans judge unsafe and see whether memory-equipped agents still refuse them.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

RedDebate's central claim is that a set of language-model agents can collectively identify, refine, and learn from their unsafe behaviours through multi-round debate at inference time. Each agent first responds to a red-teaming prompt; all responses are shared in a short-term memory so agents can critique and revise their own and others' drafts; an independent evaluator flags unsafe responses; and a feedback generator distills the flagged failures into textual lessons stored in long-term memory for future debates. The empirical discovery is that on HarmBench, debate alone lowers total error rates relative to standard prompting and unguided self-revision, the Socratic Refinement Debate (SReD) is the most effective debate strategy without memory, and equipping SReD with long-term memory yields the lowest error rates, especially when memory is compiled into programmatic guardrails (GLTM). The paper also reports that debate can expose latent vulnerabilities—initially safe responses become unsafe under discussion—and that the safety gains come from mutual correction rather than from additional independent samples or extra self-critique compute.

Load-bearing premise

Every safety measurement and every memory-update signal comes from LlamaGuard's yes/no labels, so if that evaluator misjudges a harm category, the reported error-rate reductions may reflect alignment to the evaluator rather than a genuine safety improvement.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Running RedDebate at inference time should let developers harden existing instruction-tuned models without retraining the model or collecting new human safety labels.
  • The transfer results on Aegis-2 and WildJailbreak imply that safety lessons stored in memory generalize beyond the benchmark they were learned from, so the framework is not merely memorizing HarmBench prompts.
  • Because debate can turn initially safe responses unsafe, the framework offers safety teams a diagnostic signal for latent vulnerabilities that single-turn evaluation misses.
  • Three rounds and three agents are reported as near-optimal, and early stopping can remove 46% of inference calls with only a modest error-rate increase, so the method can be tuned to available compute.
  • Comparisons with self-critique and Best-of-N sampling indicate that safety gains arise from interactive mutual correction, not from spending more inference-time compute on independent samples.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper: because every safety label and learning signal comes from LlamaGuard, the memories the agents accumulate are likely shaped by that evaluator's blind spots; running the same loop with an independent oracle, such as human raters or a second moderation model, would reveal how much of the reported gain is genuine safety versus evaluator alignment.
  • Beyond the paper: the reported safe-to-unsafe conversions under debate suggest the framework doubles as an automated vulnerability scanner—one could run it offline to mine prompts that flip initially safe models into unsafe ones, then use those flips as a harder test set or training signal.
  • Beyond the paper: the modular separation of debate, evaluation, feedback, and guardrail generation means each component can be swapped independently—for example, replacing the guardrail engine, the moderation model, or the debater triad without retraining the loop—which would let practitioners adapt the system to new risk taxonomies.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper introduces RedDebate, an inference-time multi-agent debate framework in which several LLM debaters iteratively refine responses to red-teaming prompts under the supervision of a separate evaluator and feedback generator. Four long-term memory variants are proposed—textual retrieval (TLTM), continuous fine-tuning (CLTM), their combination, and programmatic guardrails (GLTM)—and the authors report substantial safety improvements on HarmBench and CoSafe across two model triads, with the SReD+GLTM configuration achieving the lowest error rates. The paper also compares against self-critique and Best-of-N sampling, reports transfer experiments on Aegis-2 and WildJailbreak, and includes a small human validation of the LlamaGuard evaluator. The central claim is that fully automated multi-agent debate with memory yields progressively safer LLM behavior without human intervention.

Significance. If the reported results hold, RedDebate would be a useful inference-time safety mechanism that complements training-time alignment, and the memory ablations would provide practical guidance for deployment. The paper's strengths include a broad experimental base across multiple model families and benchmarks, explicit comparisons against self-critique and Best-of-N under matched compute, transfer experiments for TLTM, a human validation of the safety evaluator, and public code release. The central evidence, however, rests on measurement choices and on an evaluator-in-the-loop design whose potential circularity is only partially addressed; the GLTM evaluation additionally appears to involve training/evaluation overlap. These issues are concrete and load-bearing for the headline claims, so the manuscript needs revision rather than acceptance in its current form.

major comments (4)
  1. [§5.2, Table 2; Appendix D.3] The GLTM evaluation suffers from a likely train/evaluation overlap. Appendix D.3 states that for HarmBench 120 samples are randomly selected from the debate history and become 44 guardrails, and for CoSafe 700 samples become 63 guardrails, but the paper never states that these samples are excluded from the evaluation set used in Table 2. Because GLTM blocks prompts whose intent matches a learned guardrail, any overlap between the guardrail-generation samples and the evaluation prompts guarantees those prompts are blocked, mechanically lowering the reported error rate. The near-zero totals (0.2% on HarmBench, 0.8% on CoSafe) could therefore reflect exact or near-exact memorization rather than generalizable safety rules. The authors must report the GLTM results on a strictly disjoint held-out split of HarmBench and CoSafe, or state explicitly and verify that the guardrail-building samples were excluded from evaluation.
  2. [Table 16, Appendix D.3] There is an unexplained inconsistency in the GLTM recall numbers: Table 16 reports Qwen's Guardrails Recall as 1.0% on HarmBench while Table 2 reports Qwen+GLTM achieving a 0.0% error rate on HarmBench. If the recall value is accurate, then the guardrails can block almost none of the unsafe prompts, and the near-zero error rate cannot be attributed to GLTM. If the value is a typo (e.g., 99.0%), this needs to be corrected, and the table should be re-checked for similar transcription errors in other cells. This inconsistency directly affects the paper's claim that SReD+GLTM is the safest configuration.
  3. [§4.2, Eq. (4)] The primary error-rate metric aggregates unsafe responses over all debate rounds, including the initial round. This conflates the quality of initial responses with the effectiveness of the debate process: a method that leaves errors in round 1 but corrects them by round 3 receives the same credit as one that never errs, and the reported 'reduction' may be inflated relative to the conventional final-round evaluation. The paper should report final-round error rates (and ideally per-round trajectories) alongside the aggregate metric, for Table 1, Table 2, and the memory comparisons, because the headline '17.7% reduction with debate alone' depends on this choice of metric.
  4. [§4.3, §5.2, Appendix C.4] The evaluation loop is circular: LlamaGuard provides the labels that (a) trigger feedback generation, (b) are stored in memory, and (c) are used to measure success. The human validation in Appendix C.4 covers only 315 HarmBench dialogue samples and does not validate the other benchmark or the transfer experiments. The transfer results in Appendix C.3, while welcome, also use automated evaluation and do not fully break this loop. I recommend reporting results for at least one held-out human-annotated set or a second independent safety evaluator on the final configurations, and stating clearly which evaluations use only LlamaGuard.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains a missing space in 'We introduceRedDebate'; please fix throughout the manuscript.
  2. [§3.3, TLTM paragraph] The phrase 'effecitvely utilized' in Appendix B appears to be a typo for 'effectively utilized'; please proofread the appendix.
  3. [§2, Guardrailing] The word 'Guardrailing' is spelled inconsistently ('guardrailing' vs 'guardrailing' vs 'guardrails'); standardize terminology.
  4. [§5.1, Table 2] The SC row for the first triad shows a negative improvement value for Phi (−6.4) but the sign convention in the table caption ('Improvements over the no-guidance/memory debate setting are shown in gray') makes it unclear whether negative values mean worse or better; clarify the convention.
  5. [§4.1, Datasets] The paper does not report the number of prompts used from HarmBench and CoSafe, nor whether the same test subset is used across all conditions; please add dataset sizes and split details.
  6. [Appendix C.3] The transfer experiment evaluates TLTM only; consider adding a similar held-out transfer evaluation for GLTM, which would help address the overlap concern directly.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged · score 6.0 of 10

GLTM results are partly forced because guardrails are generated from the same HarmBench/CoSafe prompts used for evaluation, and LlamaGuard serves as both the learning signal and the safety metric.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Appendix D.3 (GLTM); Section 5.2 and Table 2]
    "For the HarmBench guardrail code generation with the first triad of debaters, we randomly select 120 samples from the debate history. These samples yield 68 pieces of feedback—since not every sample produces an unsafe response (Algorithm 1)—from which 44 guardrails are generated after merging overlapping guardrail names. For CoSafe, we use 700 samples, producing 68 pieces of feedback, which are then converted into 63 guardrails."

    The GLTM guardrails are fitted to prompts sampled from HarmBench and CoSafe, and Table 2 reports SReD+GLTM error rates on those same benchmarks without excluding the 120/700 guardrail-training prompts. Section 3.3 states that GLTM rejects any input matching a previously known unsafe flow, and the generated guardrails contain exact examples from the debate history; overlapping evaluation prompts are therefore blocked by construction. The near-zero totals (0.2% on HarmBench, 0.8% on CoSafe) thus reflect, at least in part, memorized or seen prompts rather than generalizable safety rules, and no held-out GLTM evaluation is reported.

  2. other [Section 3.1 (Equations 2-4) and Section 4.3]
    "After a fixed number of rounds of debate T, a separate evaluator agent E assesses the safety of all responses R ... and produces binary labels Y ... The resulting feedback ϕ, which represents a distilled safety insight, is stored in ML ... All safety evaluations are conducted using LlamaGuard."

    Equation 2 defines the safety labels Y as the output of evaluator E; Equation 3 derives the corrective feedback ϕ from Y; and Equation 4 measures error rate with those same labels. LlamaGuard is therefore simultaneously the source of the learning signal and the metric of success. Reported error-rate reductions partly measure how well debaters learned to satisfy LlamaGuard rather than independently established safety. The human validation in Appendix C.4 covers only 315 HarmBench arguments, so it does not fully separate the evaluator's biases from genuine safety improvement.

full rationale

The paper is an empirical framework rather than a formal derivation, so most claims are not circular by definition. The debate-alone improvements (e.g., SReD vs. standard prompting on HarmBench: 21.0% vs. 38.7%) are measured before GLTM is introduced and are compared against Self-Critique and Best-of-N baselines with matched compute, giving them independent content. The transfer experiments in Appendix C.3 also test TLTM on held-out Aegis-2 and WildJailbreak data, which partially breaks the evaluation loop. However, the flagship SReD+GLTM result is compromised: guardrails are generated from prompts sampled from the same HarmBench and CoSafe benchmarks on which Table 2 reports the lowest error rates, and no held-out split is stated for GLTM. Since GLTM blocks inputs that match learned unsafe intents, any overlap between the 120/700 training prompts and the evaluation set guarantees those prompts are rejected, artificially lowering the measured error. Additionally, LlamaGuard provides both the feedback used to train the memories and the labels used to compute the error rates, so part of the measured gain may reflect alignment with the evaluator rather than generalizable safety. The self-citation to Shayanfar et al. (2026) for guardrail generation is not load-bearing because the GLTM pipeline is specified and implemented in this paper. Overall, the central debate claim is largely independent, but the strongest memory claim reduces in part to a train/evaluation overlap and an evaluator feedback loop, yielding a partial circularity score of 6.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the reliability of LlamaGuard as the safety oracle, on an aggregate error-rate metric that counts intermediate debate rounds, on GPT-4o-mini as the feedback and Socratic guide, and on the assumption that memory built from benchmark data does not overlap evaluation in a way that inflates gains. These are empirical assumptions, not mathematical axioms, and they are the main load-bearing dependencies outside the paper's control.

free parameters (6)
  • Number of debate rounds T = 3
    Set to three rounds; Appendix C.11 reports that three rounds are sufficient and that more rounds give limited additional gains.
  • Number of debater agents N = 3
    Three models per triad; Appendix C.12 shows that adding a fourth or fifth agent reduces error, but three is the main configuration.
  • TLTM retrieval top-k = 5
    Section 4.3 and Appendix D.1: the top five feedback entries are retrieved via cosine similarity, described as sufficient based on observations.
  • CLTM LoRA hyperparameters = r=16, alpha=16, dropout=0.1
    Appendix D.2: LoRA is applied to debater attention layers with these values, adding about 0.1 percent trainable parameters.
  • CLTM fine-tuning cadence = every 10 new feedback entries
    Appendix D.2 and C.10: the LoRA adapter is re-fine-tuned on all accumulated feedback after every 10 new entries to manage cost and forgetting.
  • GLTM guardrail generation sample size = 120 HarmBench samples, 700 CoSafe samples
    Appendix D.3: 120 samples were selected for HarmBench after testing 80, 120, and 200; 700 are used for CoSafe, affecting the number of generated guardrails.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption LlamaGuard's binary safety labels are a reliable proxy for human judgments of response safety.
    Section 4.3 and Appendix C.4: all safety evaluations use LlamaGuard, validated against human labels on 315 HarmBench dialogue samples with F1 of 92, but not across all categories and benchmarks.
  • domain assumption The aggregate error rate over all debate rounds is an appropriate measure of safety improvement rather than only the final-round responses.
    Section 4.2 defines ER across all rounds; Table 1 compares single-round standard prompting with multi-round debates using this aggregate, so the headline reductions partly depend on this metric choice.
  • domain assumption Feedback generated by GPT-4o-mini from LlamaGuard labels accurately identifies unsafe reasoning patterns and can be transferred to agents via prompts, fine-tuning, or guardrails.
    Section 3.1, Equation 3: the feedback generator F produces phi from debate history and labels; there is no independent validation of feedback quality beyond downstream error rates.
  • domain assumption Models can internalize textual, parametric, or guardrail safety feedback without substantially degrading helpfulness on safe queries.
    Section 5.1 and Appendix C.6: helpfulness is checked on TriviaQA and XSTest subsets, but this is assumed to generalize to other safe domains.
  • domain assumption The benchmark prompts used for evaluation are not substantially overlapped with the prompts used to build long-term memory, or any overlap does not inflate the reported improvements.
    Tables 1 and 2 do not state whether TLTM, CLTM, or GLTM memories are built from the same benchmark instances later evaluated; Appendix C.3 transfer tests mitigate but do not fully resolve this concern.

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  title        = {Pith review of: RedDebate: Safer Responses Through Multi-Agent Red Teaming Debates},
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We introduce RedDebate, a novel multi-agent debate framework that provides the foundation for Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and mitigate their unsafe behaviours. AI safety approaches often rely on costly human evaluation or isolated single-model assessment, both constrained by scalability and prone to oversight failures. RedDebate employs collaborative argumentation among multiple LLMs across diverse debate scenarios, enabling them to critically evaluate one another's reasoning and systematically uncover unsafe failure modes through fully automated red-teaming. To support this, we propose designing distinct long-term memory modules that preserve safety-relevant insights from debate interactions and leverage them during subsequent inference, facilitating continuous refinement of model behaviour. Empirical evaluation on safety benchmarks across a diverse set of models demonstrates that RedDebate substantially reduces unsafe outputs. While debate alone allows LLMs to refine their behaviour, the addition of memory yields further error reductions. To the best of our knowledge, RedDebate is the first fully automated framework to unify multi-agent debate and red-teaming to progressively enhance LLM safety without human intervention.

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Figure 1. RedDebate framework overview. Multiple agents de￾bate a red-teaming prompt across several rounds, refining their responses through peer interaction. An evaluator analyzes the out￾puts, flags unsafe patterns, and provides feedback. Distilled safety insights are stored in memory to prevent similar mistakes, enabling continual automated improvement. Recent advances in AI, specifically in Large Language Mod￾els (LLMs), … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. RedDebate Framework et al. (2023) use self-generated feedback for response im￾provement via predefined rules or textual feedback derived in subsequent trials. We extend this with peer critique in debate to produce richer feedback, combined with various long-term memory modules for enhanced retention. Agent Memory. To overcome context limitations, LLM agents benefit from means of storing and accessing informa￾tion th… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Vulnerability heatmaps and attack metrics across debate settings. (a) Initial unsafe responses per model and debate scenario, reflecting baseline safety before any inter-agent interaction. (b) Safe-to-unsafe conversions during debate, revealing latent vulnerabilities not visible in single-turn settings; Llama and Phi are particularly susceptible despite initially safe responses. (c) Conversion rate across debate str… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Stepwise error rates for debate and self-critique. avoid unsafe outputs, they rarely engage with peers on red￾teaming prompts, but do not ultimately hinder the progress of other agents in the debate (see results in Appendix C.1). Also, we argue while GPT-4o-mini serves…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Error Rate vs Debate Engagement [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Moderation prompt used in GPT-4o-mini as Evaluator agent C.4. Evaluator Agent Automated safety evaluation using LLMs has shown promising results in recent work, including the introduction of dedicated safety evaluators such as LlamaGuard (Inan et al., 2023). While thes…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: All baselines are granted an equal number of revision opportunities or inference calls. However, debater agents revise their responses through peer interaction, while self-critique agents reflect independently. 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 Initial-Round Semantic Diversity 60 40…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The diversity metric quantifies how meaningfully agent responses differ by measuring the mean pairwise semantic distance. Specifically, responses from the first triad of debaters (Mistral, Llama, and Phi) are embedded and compared using cosine similarity. C.5. Discrepa…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Total error rates per dataset category and debate strategy accurate estimation of computational resources and costs for future work. C.14. Categorical Vulnerability Analysis As stated in Section 5, we further analyze how different debate strategies perform across indi…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Agents’ error rates by dataset category and debate strategy. D. LTMs Technical Details D.1. TLTM. We embed each feedback using OpenAI’s text-embedding-3-large model (dimension: 3072), and store the resulting vectors in a Pinecone vector database. 3 Note that vectors a…
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Scatter plot showing attack effectiveness. The x-axis shows the average steps to trigger an unsafe response (lower is better); the y-axis shows the number of safe→unsafe conversions (higher is better). D.3. GLTM To implement the Colang guardrails, we use a fork of NeM…
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Figure 13. Figure 13: An example of a debate under the PReD strategy, illustrating the refinement of an unsafe response. 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: An example illustrating the presence of a conservative agent does not collapse the debate into overcautious outcomes. 32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: An example of a debate under the SReD strategy, illustrating the refinement of an unsafe response. 33 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: An example of a debate acting as an attack, revealing a latent vulnerability. 34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Debater Agent Prompt Template 35 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Feedback Generator Agent Prompt Template 36 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Angel Agent Prompt Template 37 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Devil Agent Prompt Template 38 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Socratic Agent Prompt Template Self-Critique Init Response Prompt Please provide a detailed response to the following question. Your response should only include your answer to the question. So, please do not repeat the question in your response. Question: {question} …
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Self-Critique Agent Prompt Template. Rules are from the Constitutional AI GitHub repository. 39 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Running example of guardrails generation pipeline. 40 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_23.png]

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