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+# Guardrails Quickstart
+
+## Optional Static Release-Readiness Check
+This notebook uses `SerperDevTool()` for read-only web search. The scoped `shipgate.yaml` in this directory lets maintainers run [Agents Shipgate](https://github.com/ThreeMoonsLab/agents-shipgate) as an optional static release-readiness check for the tool surface.
+
+Because this quickstart is a notebook, the local `tool-inventory.json` documents the tool exposed by the example. Agents Shipgate reads that local metadata without running the notebook, calling Serper, making LLM calls, or uploading source.
+
+```bash
+pipx install agents-shipgate
+agents-shipgate scan -c Guardrails/shipgate.yaml --ci-mode advisory
+```
diff --git a/Guardrails/shipgate.yaml b/Guardrails/shipgate.yaml
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+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThreeMoonsLab/agents-shipgate/main/docs/manifest-v0.1.json
+
+version: "0.1"
+
+project:
+  name: crewai-guardrails-quickstart
+
+agent:
+  name: guardrails-research-crew
+  declared_purpose:
+    - Research CrewAI topics through read-only web search and demonstrate task guardrail validation.
+
+environment:
+  target: local
+
+tool_sources:
+  - id: guardrails_tool_inventory
+    type: mcp
+    path: tool-inventory.json
+
+permissions:
+  scopes:
+    - serper:search:read
+  credential_mode: api_key
+  notes: "Notebook quickstart uses SerperDevTool for read-only web search."
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+{
+  "tools": [
+    {
+      "name": "Search the internet with Serper",
+      "description": "Search public web results for a user-provided research query through Serper.",
+      "inputSchema": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "search_query": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The web search query to run."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": ["search_query"],
+        "additionalProperties": false
+      },
+      "annotations": {
+        "readOnlyHint": true,
+        "idempotentHint": true
+      },
+      "auth": {
+        "scopes": ["serper:search:read"]
+      },
+      "owner": "crewai-quickstarts"
+    }
+  ]
+}