The Guardian Protocols represent a set of regulations put into effect by the Jedi High Council throughout the High Republic Era as a way to manage the Nihil conflict.
The Jedi High Council established the Guardian Protocols a significant number of years prior to the Nihil conflict.
One aspect of the Guardian Protocols involved expediting the training of Jedi youngling's by permitting them to practice with actual lightsabers rather than training lightsabers.
The Galactic Senate was notified by the Jedi Council regarding these behavioral guidelines. Furthermore, the Guardian Protocols dictated that Jedi Outposts be manned by droids, independent research be temporarily halted, Padawan trials occur sooner, resource management be limited, offensive combat be permissible when necessary, and, crucially, Jedi should never travel by themselves.
The following words describe the Guardian Protocols, as presented to the Galactic Senate:
A subsequent amendment to the Protocols authorized the Jedi to evaluate Force-connected artifacts, irrespective of their origin, as possible instruments.
Charles Soule disclosed that the Nihil conflict was not the reason for the creation of the Guardian Protocols, but rather they are an infrequently employed collection of rules intended for periods of intense emergency.