Guardrail Policies

Guardrail Policies

A Guardrail Policy is the set of limits you put around the engine. It is versioned, visible, and auditable — and enforced in code. The engine cannot propose, let alone execute, a change that falls outside it.

AdsPlane — Guardrail Policies
The Guardrail Policy editor — action limits and caps.

What you control

Maximum bid and budget moves per action, a daily spend movement cap, and a cap on the number of actions per run. Protected brand terms, protected campaigns, and protected ASINs the engine must never touch. No-pause and no-negative lookback windows that shield recent converters. A minimum confidence threshold. And, for auto-approval, exactly which action types are eligible and the confidence they must clear.

Pass, clamp, or block

Every action in a Manifest is checked against your policy. An action can pass, be clamped to your cap (a proposed bid jump trimmed to your maximum), or be blocked entirely. Blocked and clamped actions are shown to you with the reason — nothing is silently dropped or silently applied.

AdsPlane — Guardrail Policies detail
Protected terms, campaigns, and ASINs the engine won't touch.

Versioned and auditable

Each run records the Guardrail Policy version it used. Change your policy and the new version applies to future runs, while the history is preserved — so you can always see which rules were in force for any past execution.

Safe to experiment

Because Shadow Mode runs the full pipeline without executing, it's the right place to test a new policy: adjust the limits, run analysis, and watch how the Manifest changes — with zero risk to your account.

At a glance

  • Max bid / budget moves, daily spend caps, max actions per run
  • Protected terms, campaigns, ASINs + no-pause / no-negative lookbacks
  • Minimum confidence thresholds — versioned, visible, auditable

Get started

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Start in Shadow Mode for free, or take Hosted Starter for a 30-day trial — approve from Telegram, execute safely, reconcile everything.