What is Jev Guardrail?

It is an LLM-agnostic guardrail API built on Jev. It sits between your app and any LLM provider, checks content against YAML policies, and returns one of three verdicts: PASSED, BLOCKED or FAILED.

How does Jev Guardrail decide whether to pass or block content?

It evaluates the content against rules written as YAML policies and returns PASSED, BLOCKED or FAILED, per the repository description. The verdict is a decision returned by Jev rather than free text, which keeps the result machine-readable.

Which LLM providers does Jev Guardrail work with?

The repo describes it as LLM-agnostic and says it sits between your app and any LLM provider, so the guardrail layer is independent of the model vendor you call. The digest does not list specific providers.

What security checks does Jev Guardrail cover?

Its GitHub topics name ai-guardrails, ai-security, jailbreak-detection, prompt-injection, pii-detection and data-loss-prevention, which describes the check areas the project targets. The digest excerpt does not include the policy catalogue itself.

How do I install and run Jev Guardrail?

Not documented in the digest: the README excerpt ends at the tagline, before any install or run section. The repository is a Go project under Apache-2.0, created 2026-10-02 and pushed 2026-10-16, so check the repo for current setup steps.

What does the digest not tell us about Jev Guardrail?

It shows no benchmarks, no pricing and no latency numbers, and it says nothing about how the service is deployed or how a Jev credential is configured, so those details are unknown as of 2026-10-17.

Who maintains Jev Guardrail and under what license?

The GitHub user alpkeskin publishes it under the Apache-2.0 license. The repository was created 2026-10-02 and last pushed 2026-10-16, with 4 stars and 1 fork when the sweep ran.

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Jev Guardrail

An LLM-agnostic guardrail API built on Jev: it checks prompts and responses against YAML policies and returns PASSED, BLOCKED or FAILED. It sits between your app and any LLM provider, so guardrail decisions do not depend on the provider you call.

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Author: alpkeskin
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LLM-agnostic AI guardrail API with Jev. Checks prompts and responses against YAML policies and returns PASSED, BLOCKED or FAILED. Sits between your app and any LLM provider.

Forks: 1
Last pushed: Updated Oct 2026

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Tagscommunity github guardrails security

Works forJev for Moderation Jev for Decision gating

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Languages: Go
Platforms: API
Capabilities: Open source

Highlights

Apache-2.0 Go service that returns one of three verdicts, PASSED, BLOCKED or FAILED, for content it checks.
Checks prompts and responses against YAML policies, per the repository description.
LLM-agnostic: it sits between your app and any LLM provider rather than inside one vendor's stack.
Topics name PII detection, jailbreak detection and prompt injection, plus data-loss prevention and LLMOps.
Created 2026-10-02 and pushed 2026-10-16, with 4 stars and 1 fork when the sweep ran.

Watch out

README reviewed 2026-10-17; the digest excerpt ends after the tagline, so the install path, the YAML policy schema, how Jev is called and any pricing are not documented here.

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