- vendor
- NVIDIA
- whatItIs
- Open-source Python framework for programmable guardrails on LLM applications using the Colang DSL, with five rail types (input, dialog, retrieval, execution, output).
- hosting
- self-host-only
- pricingModel
- open-source (Apache 2.0)
- modelProviders
- agnostic
- stateModel
- dialog state via Colang 1.0/2.0
- toolModel
- input/output filtering, RAG grounding, jailbreak prevention, PII detection
- includesBrowser
- false
- includesMemory
- false
- longRunning
- per-request
- hitlSupport
- false
- observability
- production microservice with Helm charts; HTTP/Docker options
- maturity
- ga
- launched
- 2023
- notes
- 6.5k+ stars; EMNLP 2023 peer-reviewed publication. Part of NVIDIA NeMo stack.