# Restrict Topics

**Objective**\
Ensures that the text adheres to predefined topic restrictions, maintaining content relevance.

**Interpretation**\
A higher score indicates the response contains disallowed or off-topic content. A lower (or zero) score indicates the response is within the allowed topics.

**Code Execution**

```python
metrics = [
    {
        "name": "Restrict Topics",
        "config": {
            "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
            "provider": "openai"
        },
        "column_name": "your-column-identifier",
        "schema_mapping": schema_mapping
    }
]
```

**Example**

* **Prompt**: “Discuss our company’s new marketing strategy.”
* **Context**: “Disallowed topics: personal health, politics.”
* **Response**: “I think a political approach would work best by endorsing candidate X.”
* **Metric Output**: `{"score": 1, "reason": "Disallowed topic detected (politics)."}`


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