LCORE-3386: align prompt guardrails spec with the shipped shield-based design - #2655
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- Line 354: Update the “Runbook / oncall implications” heading to use the
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- Line 187: When implementing the Granite Guardian client, enforce the TLS
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…d design The prompt guardrails spec described a standalone `guardrails:` config section with separate detectors and rules, a `src/guardrails/` package, a `DetectorBackend` protocol and a structured `ScreeningItem` payload. The detector framework that shipped under LCORE-3389 (PR lightspeed-core#2580) took a different route: Granite Guardian is a shield type in the existing `shields:` list, configured through `GraniteGuardianShieldConfiguration`, `GraniteGuardianConfig` and `RiskDefinition`, and evaluated by an `AbstractSafetyCapability`. The spec was not updated at the time, so the tickets implementing the input and output points were being reviewed against a design that no longer matched the code. Rewrite the What, Requirements, Architecture, acceptance test surface, aspect-specific concerns and implementation suggestions sections to describe the shipped design: the shield's risk selection by point, the Granite Guardian 4.1 judge prompt, logprob-based scoring against the per-risk threshold, the two evaluation paths (run_shield_moderation_v2 before RAG on the Responses-based endpoints, agent capabilities on the agent-based endpoints), and the fail-closed error handling as implemented. Keep the requirements that still apply and name the ticket that covers each open one: concurrent evaluation and per-risk latency (LCORE-3390), advisory risks via a new `blocking` flag and streaming checkpoints (LCORE-3391), the validation-error metric that currently has no callers (LCORE-4089), and skipping RAG, the main LLM call and the topic-summary call for input-blocked requests on /v1/query and /v1/streaming_query (LCORE-4090). R6 is extended to cover topic-summary calls and RAG documents in the response, because the in-agent path currently returns both for blocked queries. Move capabilities of the original design that the shipped configuration does not provide into a new "Deferred from the original design" section: the separate config section and backend protocol, the openai_moderations and llama_stack_shields backends, out-of-the-box risk ids, the boolean verdict without a threshold, fail-open and refusal-shaped detector failures, api_key_path, the concurrent input execution mode and a global violation message. Record model selection and guardian token accounting as open questions, note that the `enable_thinking` docstring points at a `ModerationConfig.thinking_enabled` setting that does not exist, and add a changelog row explaining the revision.
Advisory (non-blocking) risks were listed as requirement R4e, to be added under LCORE-3391 through a new `blocking` flag on RiskDefinition. Ask Red Hat, the consumer the output point was designed around, runs blocking-only screening, and no current consumer needs risks that record an outcome without altering the response. LCORE-3391 now covers block and pass only. Remove R4e and its acceptance-test row, drop the `blocking` flag from the key-files table, stop tying the tool point's behaviour to a per-risk blocking posture, and list advisory risks under "Deferred from the original design" together with the one field needed to add them later.
… the guardrails spec Two review nits on the spec realignment: - The configuration example now states that verify_ssl must not be false when api_key is set. The Granite Guardian client sends the key as a bearer token, so disabling certificate validation on a credentialed endpoint would let an on-path attacker capture it. The constraint is documented here so the client implementation enforces it. - "Runbook / oncall implications" is spelled "on-call".
…entation The approved implementation of the input guardrail point (PR lightspeed-core#2646) changed three things the spec still described as gaps or open questions: - GraniteGuardianConfig gained a `model` field (default ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b), so the model name sent to the inference server is configurable. The judge prompt remains built for the 4.1 format, so the open question narrows to supporting other Guardian versions, which need a version-specific prompt. - Risks at a point are checked in parallel batches of `batch_size` (default 3, 1-10) rather than one at a time, and the remaining batches are skipped once a batch flags. Batching was chosen over unbounded parallelism because internal guardian gateways rate-limit. Per-risk latency is logged. - The shield caches its model and HTTP client per configuration, so the client is created once and reused instead of per request. Update R4 and R10, the configuration example and field list, the shield section (model, concurrency, client lifecycle), the latency discussion, the acceptance-test row and test pattern for concurrency, the key-files table and the open questions, and add a changelog row.
The "Deferred from the original design" section listed the transitional backend as `llama_stack_shields`. The docs-wide OGX naming update on main (a2aae40) renamed that backend to `ogx_shields` in the original design text, and no other Llama Stack name is left in this spec, so the deferred list now uses the same name.
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- Line 185: Update the deployed Guardian configuration validation around
verify_ssl so certificate validation is always enabled or uses a trusted CA
bundle, and reject verify_ssl: false in production configurations. Preserve any
explicitly documented development-only exception outside production.
- Around line 88-91: Update both blocked /v1/responses handling paths to skip
maybe_get_topic_summary when the guard decision is "blocked", ensuring no
client.responses.create call occurs and the response retains empty RAG context
and absent topic-summary metadata. Preserve existing topic-summary behavior for
non-blocked requests and the /rlsapi flow.
- Around line 181-186: Align the prompt-guardrails configuration documentation
with the fields accepted by GraniteGuardianConfig: either declare model and
batch_size in GraniteGuardianConfig with appropriate validation, or remove those
entries from the documented example so ConfigurationBase extra-field rejection
does not fail validation.
- Around line 134-163: Update the Granite Guardian documentation to mark the
capability as unavailable or deferred until the `build_shield` factory’s
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293-295: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security ReviewDefine redirect handling when Guardian calls are implemented. The current Granite Guardian paths raise
NotImplementedError, so no HTTP client currently forwardsapi_key. The implementation must reject HTTP downgrades and avoid forwarding the key across origins.
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run_shield_moderation_v2callsbuild_shieldbefore thetryblock. The Granite Guardian branch ofbuild_shieldraisesNotImplementedErrorinstead of returning a shield, and no Granite Guardian implementation exists in the repository. Therefore the listed failures cannot currently arise fromshield.run, so their exception types cannot escape that handler.
52-55: 🚀 Performance & ScalabilityThe sanitization path predates the Granite Guardian configuration.
run_shield_moderation_v2added sanitization in commit2894e3ee1, before Granite Guardian configuration was added in4df953fc8. Requests without agranite_guardianentry still incur this existing baseline work, but it is not added latency from the Granite Guardian feature. R1 does not need qualification for this reason.
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| - **R6:** A request blocked at the `input` point performs no RAG retrieval, | ||
| no main LLM call and no topic-summary call, and its response carries no RAG | ||
| chunks or referenced documents. (Met on `/v1/responses` and `/rlsapi`; not | ||
| yet on `/v1/query` and `/v1/streaming_query`: LCORE-4090.) |
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Skip topic-summary generation for blocked /v1/responses requests. build_rag_context returns an empty RAGContext for a "blocked" decision, so blocked requests perform no RAG retrieval and receive no RAG documents. However, both blocked response paths still call maybe_get_topic_summary; when enabled, it invokes client.responses.create. R6 is therefore not met on /v1/responses until blocked paths skip this call. /rlsapi returns before model or MCP work and sets both metadata fields to None.
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Update both blocked /v1/responses handling paths to skip maybe_get_topic_summary
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| ```text | ||
| ┌────────────────────────────── lightspeed-stack ──────────────────────────────┐ | ||
| │ │ | ||
| user query ─┼─► input rules ──blocked──► 200 refusal (skip RAG + LLM; persist turn) │ | ||
| │ (parallel) │ | ||
| │ │ passed │ | ||
| │ ▼ │ | ||
| │ RAG retrieval ─► LLM call (Responses API) │ | ||
| │ │ ▲ │ | ||
| │ tool results │ tool_content rules gate each result │ | ||
| │ └────────┘ (flagged content never enters context) │ | ||
| │ ▼ │ | ||
| │ output rules ──blocked──► refusal replaces/terminates answer │ | ||
| │ (checkpointed when streaming) │ | ||
| │ │ passed │ | ||
| └──────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ | ||
| ▼ | ||
| response | ||
| all rule checks ──► DetectorBackend ──► guardian model | ||
| (Guardian chat template (vLLM / RHAIIS / | ||
| or /v1/moderations) Ollama / gateway) | ||
| ┌─────────────────────────── lightspeed-stack ────────────────────────────┐ | ||
| │ │ | ||
| user query ─┼─► input sanitization ─► input risks ──blocked──► 200 refusal │ | ||
| │ (shield) (skip RAG + LLM; persist turn) │ | ||
| │ │ passed │ | ||
| │ ▼ │ | ||
| │ RAG retrieval ─► agent / LLM call │ | ||
| │ │ ▲ │ | ||
| │ tool results │ tool risks gate each │ | ||
| │ └─────────┘ result (capability) │ | ||
| │ ▼ │ | ||
| │ output risks ──blocked──► refusal replaces answer │ | ||
| │ (checkpointed when streaming) │ | ||
| │ │ passed │ | ||
| └────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ | ||
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| all risk checks ──► GraniteGuardian shield ──► Granite Guardian model | ||
| (judge prompt + logprob (vLLM / RHAIIS / gateway, | ||
| scoring) OpenAI-compatible API) | ||
| ``` | ||
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| The guardrails layer lives in `src/guardrails/` and is independent of | ||
| OGX; detectors are plain OpenAI-compatible HTTP calls. Rule | ||
| selection, parallel execution, and verdict aggregation are pure functions | ||
| over the config; endpoints consume a single `GuardrailsVerdict` per point. | ||
| Guardrails reuse the shields framework rather than adding a parallel one. | ||
| A shield is an `AbstractSafetyCapability` with two interfaces: a standalone | ||
| `run(text)` that returns a `ShieldModerationResult`, and pydantic-ai | ||
| capability hooks such as `wrap_run` that act inside an agent run. The | ||
| Granite Guardian shield lives in | ||
| `src/pydantic_ai_lightspeed/capabilities/granite_guardian/`. |
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Do not present Granite Guardian as shipped until the factory supports it.
The documented granite_guardian configuration reaches build_shield, whose GraniteGuardianConfig branch raises NotImplementedError. Mark this capability as unavailable or deferred, or implement the factory before documenting it as shipped. Otherwise, users can enable the documented configuration and receive a runtime failure instead of moderation.
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| model: ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b # default; the prompt uses the 4.1 format | ||
| api_key: ${env.GUARDIAN_API_KEY} # optional; requires an https URL | ||
| timeout: 30 # seconds, 5-300 | ||
| max_retries: 2 # 0-5 | ||
| verify_ssl: true # true | false | path to CA bundle; must not be false when api_key is set | ||
| batch_size: 3 # risks checked in parallel per batch, 1-10 |
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Align the documented configuration with GraniteGuardianConfig.
GraniteGuardianConfig does not declare model or batch_size, and ConfigurationBase sets extra="forbid". Pydantic rejects both documented fields during validation. Add the fields to the model or remove them from the document.
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Align the prompt-guardrails configuration documentation with the fields accepted
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| api_key: ${env.GUARDIAN_API_KEY} # optional; requires an https URL | ||
| timeout: 30 # seconds, 5-300 | ||
| max_retries: 2 # 0-5 | ||
| verify_ssl: true # true | false | path to CA bundle; must not be false when api_key is set |
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Security Misconfiguration
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation
Require certificate validation for deployed Guardian configurations. The configuration permits verify_ssl: false when no API key is set. An active network attacker could then return a false safe verdict. Require certificate validation or a trusted CA bundle in deployed configurations. If development-only exceptions remain, reject them in production configuration.
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Aligns the prompt guardrails spec (
docs/design/prompt-guardrails/prompt-guardrails.md) with the design that actually shipped.The spec described a standalone
guardrails:config section with separate detectors and rules, asrc/guardrails/package and aDetectorBackendprotocol. The detector framework merged under LCORE-3389 (#2580) instead makes Granite Guardian a shield type in the existingshields:list (GraniteGuardianShieldConfiguration,GraniteGuardianConfig,RiskDefinition). The spec was not updated then, so the input and output point tickets were being reviewed against a design that no longer matched the code.What changes:
run_shield_moderation_v2before RAG on/v1/responsesand/rlsapi; agent capabilities on/v1/queryand/v1/streaming_query).blockingflag and streaming checkpoints (LCORE-3391), the validation-error metric, which currently has no callers (LCORE-4089), and skipping RAG / main LLM / topic summary for input-blocked requests on the agent-based endpoints (LCORE-4090).openai_moderationsandllama_stack_shieldsbackends, out-of-the-box risk ids, a threshold-less boolean verdict, fail-open and refusal-shaped detector failures,api_key_path, the concurrent input execution mode and a global violation message.enable_thinkingdocstring references aModerationConfig.thinking_enabledsetting that does not exist; a changelog row.Type of change
pyproject.toml+uv.lock]requirements.*.txtfor Konflux]Tools used to create PR
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main:src/models/config.py(RiskDefinition,GraniteGuardianConfig,GraniteGuardianShieldConfiguration,ShieldConfigurationunion)src/utils/shields.py(run_shield_moderation_v2, stubbedrun_shield_moderation),src/utils/pydantic_ai_helpers.py(_shield_capability),src/app/endpoints/query.pyandstreaming_query.py(RAG before the agent run)${env.*}substitution:src/configuration.py; shields listing:src/app/endpoints/shields.pygit grep record_llm_validation_error src/prompt-guardrails-spike.md,../../user_doc/shields_guide.md,../../../CLAUDE.md(checked before commit).Summary by CodeRabbit