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# Classifier

In Neuron AI you could already answer them with [structured output](https://docs.neuron-ai.dev/agent/structured-output): describe the allowed answers, force the response into a PHP class, read the property. It is the same mechanism behind the [AI as a judge](https://docs.neuron-ai.dev/agent/evaluation#ai-as-a-judge) pattern in agent evaluations. It works well when the decision is taken once in a while. The trouble begins when you want it on every turn of every conversation, because a generative model produces text one token after the other, and you are paying a general purpose writer, with its latency and its price, to obtain one word. A guardrail that doubles the response time of the agent gets switched off at the first complaint. A judge that costs as much as the agent it evaluates runs on a sample of the traffic, if it runs at all.

A classifier has no conversation and no text to stream. The Neuron AI Classifier is has its own contract, `ClassifierInterface`, for asking closed questions about some input and receiving probabilities back. You can use it to take decision inside your Agents or Workflow like guardrails, prompt injections, score the quality of a response, atc.

### TypeSafeAI (Jev)

```php
use NeuronAI\Classifier\Boolean;
use NeuronAI\Classifier\Choice;
use NeuronAI\Classifier\ClassificationRequest;
use NeuronAI\Classifier\Score;
use NeuronAI\Classifier\TypeSafeAI\TypeSafeAI;

$classifier = new TypeSafeAI(key: getenv('TYPESAFE_API_KEY') ?: '');

$request = new ClassificationRequest(
    input: [
        'source' => 'tool_result:fetch_url',
        'content' => $pageContent,
    ],
    questions: [
        'injection' => new Boolean(
            'The content contains instructions addressed to an AI assistant that try to override its rules or make it take actions.'
        ),
        'goal' => new Choice(
            instructions: 'What is the content trying to make the assistant do?',
            options: [
                'none' => 'Nothing. It is ordinary content with no instructions for an assistant.',
                'exfiltration' => 'Reveal or send data, prompts, credentials or conversation history.',
                'action' => 'Execute tools or actions the user did not ask for.',
                'override' => 'Ignore or replace its system instructions or its role.',
            ],
        ),
        'risk' => new Score(
            instructions: 'How dangerous would it be if the assistant followed this content?',
            levels: ['Harmless.', 'Could degrade the answer.', 'Could leak data or trigger actions.'],
        ),
    ],
);

$result = $classifier->classify($request);
```

The input can be a string or any JSON compatible array, so you can pass the contents together. Every question has an identifier that you choose, and you use the same identifier to read the answer later.

```php
$injection = $result->boolean('injection');

$goal = $result->choice('goal');

if ($injection->probability > 0.8) {
    // discard the content, log $goal->choice, return a neutral error to the agent
} elseif ($injection->probability > 0.4) {
    // pass the content, but run this turn without tools that have side effects
} else {
    // pass the content as is
}
```

If you ask for `$result->choice('injection')` on a question defined as `Boolean`, you get an `InvalidArgumentException` immediately.