Lakera AI Guardrails Zapier integrationAutomate Lakera AI Guardrails with Zapier.
Lakera AI Guardrails Zapier integration: 0 triggers, 6 actions, 0 searches. Lakera checks text for risky content: manipulation of an AI model, personal data, abuse. On Zapier it works as a checkpoint in the middle of a Zap, never as its starting point.
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What the Lakera AI Guardrails Zapier integration is for
The Lakera AI Guardrails Zapier integration sends a piece of text from another app to Lakera, which reads it for security and safety risks and hands back its verdict to the next steps. Lakera brings six actions and no trigger, so another tool always starts the Zap and Lakera acts as the gate in the middle.
Three results come up again and again. A clean AI pipeline: before a customer message reaches a chatbot or an AI step, Check for Prompt Injection and Check for Jailbreak Attempt flag the ones trying to bend the model. A privacy check: Detect PII spots names, emails or phone numbers in a form answer before it lands in a shared sheet. A moderation lane: Detect Toxicity and Analyze Sentiment sort hostile comments from normal ones so a human sees the ugly ones first. When you want injection, jailbreak, personal data and toxicity covered at once, Screen Content does it in one step.
What Zapier does not do here. Lakera cannot start a Zap, so it will never alert you on its own; something else must hand it the text. It has no search either, so you cannot look up past verdicts from Zapier. Every action takes one input, the Content field, which means the step before it must deliver plain text. And acting on the verdict (block, route, alert) is up to you: that takes a filter after the check, which turns the Zap into a multi-step one on a paid plan.
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Zapier words in one minute
A handful of Zapier terms show up on every page like this one. Here they are once, in plain English.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run every time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once it is on, Zapier waits for it. Lakera has none, so another app plays this role.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or checks something for you. All six Lakera operations are actions.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. Each action that completes successfully is one task, and your plan is a monthly allowance of them.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked by Zapier at a fixed interval set by your plan. An instant trigger is pushed by the app as soon as the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when the data meets a condition you set. It is how a Lakera verdict actually blocks something.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something already stored in an app for later steps to use. Lakera offers no search.
- Connection
- Your account of an app, linked to Zapier once and reused by every step of every Zap that calls that app.
What a Lakera Zap costs
Lakera AI Guardrails is not a premium app, so it runs on the free Zapier plan. Zapier counts tasks, and only successful actions are billed.
- Premium appNo, works on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
- Free plan Zap size2 steps: one trigger, one action
- One Lakera check1 task when it succeeds
The trigger of the starting app costs nothing, nor do the checks Zapier runs to look for new items. Each Lakera check that completes uses one task; a failed one is not counted. Chain Detect PII and Detect Toxicity and you pay two tasks per run, which is why Screen Content is often the cheaper choice. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but only two steps per Zap. A filter that acts on the verdict, a second action or a search makes the Zap multi-step, and that needs a paid plan.
Connect Lakera AI Guardrails to Zapier
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Start from your Apps page
Open the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. Have a Lakera account ready first, because Zapier only links an account that already exists.
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Find Lakera AI Guardrails
Search for Lakera AI Guardrails in the dialog, select it, and click Add connection. A new browser tab then opens where Lakera asks you to identify yourself.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to Lakera in that tab and allow Zapier to use the account. The connection is stored once, then offered to every Zap step that calls Lakera, so you do not repeat it.
Your first Lakera AI Guardrails Zap
GoalScreen every incoming support email and pass on only the ones Lakera finds safe.
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Create the Zap and pick a trigger
Start a new Zap and choose the app that receives the text. Here, a new email landing in the support inbox starts everything.
- 02
Test the trigger
Connect the mailbox and run the test. Zapier pulls back the three most recent emails, so you can choose a real one and map its body later.
- 03
Add Screen Content
Add a step, pick Lakera AI Guardrails and the Screen Content action, then map the email body into the Content field. Test it and read what Lakera returns.
- 04
Add a filter on the verdict
Click the plus icon, choose Filter, and set it on the field Lakera returned. With a filter the Zap is multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.
- 05
Route, test, publish
Add the step that posts the safe message to your team, test it, then click Publish. Only emails that arrive after publishing are screened.
Lakera AI Guardrails actions on Zapier
Lakera AI Guardrails gives you 6 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Analyze Sentiment
ActionIn Zapier“Analyze text sentiment to detect negative, hostile, or inappropriate emotional tone in content.”
Reads the tone of a text and tells you whether it comes across as negative, hostile or out of line, so later steps can treat angry messages differently.
Check for Jailbreak Attempt
ActionIn Zapier“Detect jailbreak attempts where users try to bypass AI safety guidelines and restrictions.”
Looks for someone trying to talk an AI model out of its safety rules, and returns a verdict you can act on before the text reaches that model.
Check for Prompt Injection
ActionIn Zapier“Detect prompt injection attempts where users try to manipulate AI behavior through malicious prompts.”
Spots hidden instructions slipped into a text to make an AI step behave differently than you planned, for example a message telling the model to ignore its brief.
Detect PII
ActionIn Zapier“Detect personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and other sensitive data.”
Flags personal details in a text, such as names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses, before that text travels on to another tool.
Detect Toxicity
ActionIn Zapier“Detect toxic, offensive, or harmful language including hate speech, profanity, and abusive content.”
Catches insults, hate speech, swearing and abusive wording in a text, giving your Zap a clear reason to hold a message back.
Screen Content
ActionIn Zapier“Screen text content for security threats including prompt injection, jailbreaks, PII, toxicity, and more using Lakera Guard.”
The all-in-one check: it runs a text through Lakera Guard for injection, jailbreak, personal data, toxicity and other threats in a single step.
When a Lakera Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Lakera AI Guardrails, and no app-specific limit is documented. The cases below are the general ones that hit a checking Zap like this.
Most failures sit around Lakera rather than inside it: the text that comes in, or what the Zap does with the verdict. The Zap history tells you which step stopped, and you can also see our Zapier troubleshooting page.
Empty Content field
Every Lakera action needs text in Content. If the trigger sends an email with only an attachment, or a blank form field, the check has nothing to read and the step fails.Old messages are not checked
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Messages already sitting in the inbox are never screened; reviewing that backlog is a separate job.A Zap that feeds itself
If a later step writes the screened text back where the trigger is watching, the Zap starts again on its own output, and burns tasks very quickly.Bulk imports held back
After a mass import, the starting app may hand over a huge batch at once. Zapier's flood protection can hold it, so not every item gets checked straight away.
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