# Guardrails

## Guardrail Specification

When specific rules or special exit codes are required by pipelines or security policies, complex conditions can be defined using guardrail expressions.

Guardrails enables users to customize and specify how a Xygeni command should behave in the presence of certain conditions or criteria, thereby allowing for flexible and tailored handling of failure scenarios.

Guardrail specification is a subset of ***Xygeni™ XyFlow Language***, tailored for guardrail conditions.

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Visit [Xygeni GuardRails](https://docs.xygeni.io/xygeni-scanner-cli/xygeni-cli-overview/guardrails) for further information.
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