Power Platform Adds a Safety Grader for AI Responses

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Most AI governance models stop at the input level. IT teams historically check who can build an agent. They also look at what backend data that agent can reach. However, far fewer teams systematically evaluate the actual responses that the AI generates.

This major governance gap is exactly where an unsafe or off-policy AI response can slip through to your end users.

Microsoft is addressing this gap with the Power Platform Safety Grader. The new governance tool reaches public preview on July 15, 2026. This release allows administrators to configure custom safety criteria directly. The system then evaluates active AI responses against your rules before those responses ever leave your tenant.

How the Output-Side Evaluation Process Works

The tool automatically flags unsafe or policy-violating outputs. In addition to blocking the content, it provides clear, written explanations detailing why a specific response failed.

Furthermore, administrators can combine these safety evaluations with other quality checks. This allows your team to run multiple validations within a single, unified evaluation pass.

This process fundamentally shifts AI governance from the inputs to the outputs:

  • Legacy control: You only controlled what data source an agent could connect to.
  • Active grading: You evaluate what the agent actually produces against your exact company policies.

For regulated or brand-sensitive organizations, this output-side validation is the critical safety check that has been missing.

Steps to Prepare Your Environment for the Public Preview

Because the Power Platform Safety Grader is currently in a preview state, you should expect its criteria and administrative controls to evolve over time. However, you do not have to wait to build your operational readiness.

The SimpleSharepoint team helps you prepare through two key services:

  • Policy definition: We work with your legal and compliance teams to translate your brand rules into concrete safety criteria that the grader can enforce.
  • Evaluation setup: We help you integrate automated safety grading into your standard review processes before publishing new agents.

Are you thinking through how output-side AI governance fits into your existing Power Platform strategy? We are happy to compare notes on what we are hearing across other enterprise tenants.

Graphic with text: Power Platform adds a Safety Grader for AI responses. Simple SharePoint, a division of Rego Consulting.

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