NeMo Guardrails
NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails on GitHub
NVIDIA's Python library for adding programmable guardrails to LLM apps, with rails that check user input, model output, retrieved chunks and tool calls, including jailbreak and injection detection.
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Access and use
pip install nemoguardrails. Needs Python 3.11 to 3.13. Rails are set in a config.yml file and Colang flows, and call the LLM provider set there, such as OpenAI, with your own key. nemoguardrails server runs it as an HTTP API. The library sends anonymous telemetry to NVIDIA (versions, OS, provider names and rail counts; the README says no prompts, completions or keys) until you set NEMO_GUARDRAILS_NO_USAGE_STATS=1 before it starts. The README says NVIDIA Build endpoints are for evaluation only. The LICENSE file is Apache-2.0; GitHub shows NOASSERTION.
Who it is for
Developers building chat assistants, RAG apps or agents in Python who want configurable checks between their code and the model.
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- github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails
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- Security and governance
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- /tools/nemo-guardrails.md
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