Are Codeigniter Active Records automatically escaped?

https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/database/active_reco开发者_如何学Gord.html

Is everything automatically escaped for you?

As the notes on the exact page you linked to specify:

Note: All values are escaped automatically producing safer queries.

It also allows for safer queries, since the values are escaped automatically by the system.

was it so hard to search for "escape" substring on that page?