Context profiles are how you tell Nomotic about your organization — your brand guidelines, compliance requirements, domain vocabulary, behavioral boundaries, and any other knowledge that should inform governance decisions.
Without context profiles, Nomotic evaluates actions against general governance principles. With context profiles, it evaluates them against your specific organizational standards.
What goes in a context profile
A context profile is a structured document you create in Nomotic and assign to one or more agents. It can contain:
Brand and communication guidelines — tone of voice, approved messaging, topics to avoid.
Compliance rules — specific regulations your agents must respect, such as data handling requirements, disclosure obligations, or jurisdictional restrictions.
Domain vocabulary — terminology specific to your industry or organization so governance understands your context accurately.
Behavioral boundaries — specific actions your agents should never take regardless of how they score on general dimensions, or specific actions that should always be treated as low-risk in your context.
Creating a context profile
Go to Context → Profiles → New Profile. Give the profile a name and description, then add your content. Profiles support plain text, structured sections, and key-value pairs for specific rules.
Assigning profiles to agents
Once created, assign the profile to one or more agents from the profile detail page or from the agent’s settings. An agent can have multiple profiles assigned — all are injected at evaluation time.
Changes to a profile take effect immediately on all agents it is assigned to.
Archetypes as context shortcuts
Archetypes are pre-built context templates for common agent roles. Rather than building a context profile from scratch for a healthcare agent, you assign the Healthcare archetype and the appropriate context is applied automatically. Custom archetypes — building your own reusable templates — are available on Team and above plans.