Off-the-shelf Teen Safety Policies

Off-the-shelf Teen Safety Policies

While safety classifiers like gpt-oss-safeguard can detect harmful content, they depend on clear definitions of what that content is. In practice, one of the biggest challenges developers face is defining policies that accurately capture teen-specific risks and can be consistently applied in real systems.

To address this challenge, OpenAI has released the [teen-safety-policy-pack](https://github.com/openai/teen-safety-policy-pack), a set of safety policies tailored to common risks faced by teens and informed by careful review of existing research on teens' unique developmental differences. These policies are structured as prompts that can be directly used with [gpt-oss-safeguard](https://github.com/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard) and other reasoning models, enabling developers to apply consistent safety standards across their systems more easily.