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Guardrails

Every macro that checks a key, click or Quit before it happens, with a switch for each.

A guardrail is a macro that runs before a key, click or Quit. It lets the action through, blocks it, or asks "Send anyway?". This page lists them.

What's here #

Armed has one row per macro whose trigger is "Before a key, click or quit". Each row shows the macro's name, what it catches, and a switch to turn it off without opening the macro.

Under that, a line shows the last 7 days: number of checks, average and slowest time, and how many were blocked, asked or failed. A check slower than half a second gets an amber dot and a note about what it slows.

With none yet, the page offers Open the Guardrails Guide, which has five ready-made ones to add.

Tricks #

  • Keep checks short. Reading a window is fast; a model call is not.

  • Secure input turns guardrails off, for example while a password field has focus.

  • A hot key macro on the same key runs instead, and the guardrail never sees it.

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