Each Guardrail Check has a specific purpose, it’s own parameters, supported hooks, and sources.

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Partner Guardrails

Apora

  • Validate Aporia policies
  • Define your Aporia policies on your Aporia dashboard and just pass the project ID in Portkey Guardrail check.

Pillar

  • Scan Prompts
  • Scan Responses For PII, toxicity, prompt injection detection, and more.

Patronus

  • Hallucination detection
  • Check for conciseness, helpfulness, politeness
  • Check for gender, racial bias
  • and more!

The logic for all of the Guardrail Checks (including Partner Guardrails) is open source.

View it here and here on the Portkey Gateway repo.

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Bring Your Own Guardrail

We have built Guardrails in a very modular way, and support bringing your own Guardrail using a custom webhook! Learn more here.

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Portkey’s Guardrails

Along with the partner Guardrails, there are also deterministic as well as LLM-based Guardrails supported natively by Portkey.

BASIC Guardrails are available on all Portkey plans.

PRO Guardrails are available on Portkey Pro & Enterprise plans.

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BASIC — Deterministic Guardrails

Regex Match


Checks if the request or response text matches a regex pattern.

Parameters: rule: string
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

Sentence Count


Checks if the content contains a certain number of sentences. Ranges allowed.

Parameters: minSentences: number, maxSentences: number
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

Word Count


Checks if the content contains a certain number of words. Ranges allowed.

Parameters: minWords: number, maxWords: number
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

Character Count


Checks if the content contains a certain number of characters. Ranges allowed.

Parameters: minCharacters: number, maxCharacters: number
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

JSON Schema


Check if the response JSON matches a JSON schema.

Parameters: schema: json
Supported Hooks: afterRequestHook

JSON Keys


Check if the response JSON contains any, all or none of the mentioned keys.

Parameters: keys: array, operator: string
Supported Hooks: afterRequestHook

Contains


Checks if the content contains any, all or none of the words or phrases.

Parameters: words: array, operator: string
Supported Hooks: afterRequestHook

Valid URLs


Checks if all the URLs mentioned in the content are valid

Parameters: onlyDNS: boolean
Supported Hooks: afterRequestHook

Contains Code


Checks if the content contains code of format SQL, Python, TypeScript, etc.

Parameters: format: string
Supported Hooks: afterRequestHook

Lowercase Detection


Check if the given string is lowercase or not.

Parameters: format: string
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

Webhook


Makes a webhook request for custom guardrails

Parameters: webhookURL: string, headers: json
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

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PRO — LLM Guardrails

Moderate Content


Checks if the content passes the mentioned content moderation checks.

Parameters: categories: array
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook

Check Language


Checks if the response content is in the mentioned language.

Parameters: language: string
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook

Detect PII


Detects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the content.

Parameters: categories: array
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

Detect Gibberish


Detects if the content is gibberish.

Parameters: boolean
Supported Hooks: beforeRequestHook, afterRequestHook

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Contribute Your Guardrail

Integrate your Guardrail platform with Portkey Gateway and reach our growing user base.

Check out some existing integrations to get started.

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