feat(guardrails): enforced guardrail hits on every LLM handler's usage event by membphis · Pull Request #1028 · api7/aisix

membphis · 2026-08-22T05:20:10Z

Why

#1023 shipped UsageEvent.guardrail_enforced_hits on /mcp only, and filed #1024 for the rest of the family with the exact site list. The collection half was already attached to every resolved chain by that PR — a chain is resolved once per request, so every endpoint has been accumulating hits and then throwing them away. Only the drain was missing.

The gap is silent in the way this repo's handler-family rule exists to prevent. Nothing errors, no metric goes to zero, no test turns red: an ENFORCING mask on /v1/messages (Claude Code) or /v1/responses (Codex) rewrote the response and showed up in Prometheus, while the /logs row for that same request read exactly like no guardrail acted. For a masking deployment — a customer whose required disposition is "rewrite, never block" — that is the entire audit trail missing.

What

guardrail_enforced_hits is now filled at every terminal UsageEvent: chat, messages, responses (both sites), completions, embeddings, rerank, audio, images, images/edits, videos, jobs (both), realtime, passthrough routes, and usage_attr's shared error-event builder.

The handle is threaded, not re-derived. GuardrailChain::audit_log() clones the request's Arc<GuardrailAuditLog> at the same line applied() is already snapshotted, and every handler carries it exactly the way it carries applied_guardrails.

The two things that decide whether this works at all

1. Streaming emitters run after the handler frame is gone. chat / messages / responses / audio emit from a move closure driven by a Drop guard on the response body; the chain is not in scope there. The audit handle is cloned beside applied_guardrails and read inside the closure. A drain that covers only the non-streaming branch leaves streamed traffic — which is most agent traffic — unattributed, and the two look identical in a diff.

2. chat.rs re-wraps its chain. Around the Arc<dyn Guardrail> erasure it may rebuild with GuardrailChain::new(vec![resolved, local_model]) for the local-model guardrail, and new leaves the new OUTER chain's audit log unset. The handle is taken from the attachment-resolved chain before the erasure — the same reason applied() already is. Read it afterwards and every attachment-row hit on the chat path goes unattributed while every sibling endpoint reports normally.

Both have a dedicated test, and both were mutation-checked: pointing audit_out at a fresh empty chain fails all four chat tests, with the emitted event showing redacted_entity_counts: {"eda_version": 1} beside guardrail_enforced_hits: [] — the exact contradiction the issue describes.

Failure paths carry more weight here than success paths

A guardrail BLOCK leaves through Err, so the refusal — the case an auditor most wants named — is precisely the one a success-only drain misses. Two consequences:

emit_error_usage_event / build_error_usage_event take the hits, and every non-chat handler fills an out-param at chain resolution so both branches can stamp them. This mirrors the applied_out pattern chat.rs already had for the same reason.
The jobs surface resolves its own chain inside scan_input_blob / scan_output_blob and returns Err on a block, so the caller's ? would discard the chain that just recorded the hit. Those helpers accumulate into a Vec before the block branch returns. Jobs is also the one path that can resolve two chains per request (input scan + output scan), which is why it accumulates rather than holding one handle.

Per-attempt vs terminal

Guardrails run once per request, not once per attempt. The three retrying families (chat / messages / responses) share emitters between the terminal event and superseded per-attempt ones, and are told which they are building — usage_attr::terminal_enforced_hits(terminal, audit) states the rule once instead of repeating an if at each of the ~10 emit sites, so it cannot be applied inconsistently across the three. enforced_hits() is non-destructive by design, so reading it on the terminal event after per-attempt events have gone out is safe.

Also in this PR: `blocked` no longer conflates a decision with an outage (AISIX-Cloud#1365)

Found by #1023's own pre-merge audit and deliberately deferred there. A remote guardrail with fail_open: false, or any row marked mandatory: true, returns Block rather than Bypass when its upstream is unreachable. So a 30-second provider outage stamped every request in that window with {"guardrail_name":"lakera-prod","action":"blocked"} and nothing else. The consequences are asymmetric: an operator who under-reads that loses nothing, but one who over-reads it concludes a burst of customer prompts violated policy when the provider was simply down. For a compliance review that is a wrong answer, not a missing one.

GuardrailVerdict::Block now carries the bounded per-kind failure tag (unavailable: Option<String> — the same closed vocabulary bypass_tag() already produces, e.g. lakera_timeout), populated at the eight handle_failure sites and at MandatoryGuardrail's Bypass → Block conversion, which is the one place that knows structurally that the refusal is an outage. Those record action: "blocked_unavailable" plus error_type on the audit event.

Why a third action rather than a flag. The auditor's query is "show me requests blocked by policy". With three values that is action = 'blocked', correct by construction. With blocked + an optional cause it is action = 'blocked' AND error_type IS NULL — correct only if the analyst knows to add the second clause. Making the naive read correct is the entire point of the issue.

Why the Prometheus result label deliberately does NOT split. It is a shipped label (AISIX-Cloud#1076) with operator alerting attached, and a new value would silently stop an existing result="blocked" alert from counting outages. The cause rides error_type, which was already a label on that metric (populated on Bypass) and merely gains values — so sum by (result) is unchanged while error_type != "none" separates the two. The audit event is unreleased and can afford the cleaner shape; the divergence is stated in classify_execution's doc comment so a reader does not file it as drift. A chain unit test pins each half.

No compatibility registration needed: guardrail_enforced_hits appears in no git tag (it merged after v0.10.0-rc.1, and release candidates never count as shipped), so no released DP emits the field and the action vocabulary could be extended in place.

Deliberately unchanged

Buffer-overflow fail-closed stream aborts (StreamOutputPolicy::BufferFull with on_exceeded_fail_open: false, in chat / responses / passthrough). They set guardrail_blocked directly and never produce a chain verdict, so they record no audit entry — before this PR and after. Attributing them needs a different mechanism than the chain fold and is not in scope.
completions.rs still leaves applied_guardrails empty. Pre-existing gap in a sibling field; noted rather than fixed, since every changed line here traces to the drain.
a2a.rs (resolves no chain), count_tokens.rs (emits no usage event) — exempted by the issue.
Ensemble member and semantic sub-dispatch guardrails keep their tracked parity gaps. The ensemble judge event IS the request's terminal event, so the parent chain's handle is threaded to it beside applied_guardrails — a one-line parallel edit of the kind CLAUDE.md allows, not a piecemeal fix of the reserved design pass.

Verification

cargo test -p aisix-core -p aisix-guardrails -p aisix-obs -p aisix-proxy — green (1026 proxy, 266 guardrails, 608 core, 225 obs). Clippy clean. dump-schema produces no diff. compat_debt green.
Every wired handler has a test that a refusal names the policy on the emitted event, including #153's negative — the blocklist literal never reaches the serialized event. Chat, messages and responses additionally cover the enforcing mask, streaming and not.
Chain unit tests pin the three-way split: a fail-closed member records blocked_unavailable + the tag while an ordinary content block keeps a bare blocked and gains no cause; and the metrics sink still sees result="blocked" with the cause on error_type.
Real stack (tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts): boots the real binary against real etcd and a real SOC export target, drives a masked request through /v1/chat/completions (streaming and not), /v1/messages and /v1/responses, and reads the exported event back — row name, hook, action, per-detector counts, and the masked value absent. One guardrail row governs all four with a per-endpoint detector inside it, so the exported entry says which handler produced it and the cases cannot cross-talk.
A separate app in the same spec covers the fail-closed refusal end to end: a real presidio guardrail pointed at a port nothing listens on, fail_open: false. Recorded as blocked_unavailable with error_type: presidio_5xx, never blocked — and the request is still refused, because separating the two attributions must not weaken the guarantee itself.

Independent audit

Run cold against this branch. One HIGH, two MEDIUM, six LOW; all fixed in 0eec340 except the two deferrals, which are now filed.

The HIGH was mine and embarrassing: cargo fmt --check was red at the PR head, so CI's lint job failed at the fmt step and skipped clippy entirely — nothing had ever linted this branch, and my "clippy clean" claim was unverified because I had run clippy locally without -D warnings and never run fmt --check at all. Fixed: formatting clean, clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passes, and the hand-inserted rest-patterns rustfmt was too wide to reach are indented by hand.

The substantive MEDIUM was the better catch. Every per-handler test drove a guardrail BLOCK, which leaves through the shared error event — so deleting the drain from those handlers' SUCCESS emitters would have left all ten green. That is the same silent shape this PR exists to close, one branch over. There is now a mask case for each handler whose input hook can actually rewrite (completions, embeddings, rerank, images, images/edits, audio); the block-only handlers (videos, jobs, realtime, passthrough) cannot populate the array on success at all, so their refusal test is the complete surface, and realtime's block already lands on the same emitter a successful session uses.

Worst of them was audio: the streamed transcription relay's end-of-stream emit — the one closure on that surface that runs after the handler frame is gone, and the entire reason the audit handle is cloned rather than read from the chain — had no coverage whatsoever, because the audio refusal test drives /v1/audio/speech through a different dispatch. It has its own test now.

The LOWs worth naming: error_type reaches an unsanitized Prometheus label and its type is String, not the &'static str every producer actually passes — clamped at construction to [a-z0-9_]{1,64} so a future free-text bypass reason cannot mint one series per string; the comment justifying audio's cloned handle named a case that cannot occur on that branch; the e2e's hit extractor also matched guardrail_monitor_hits arrays; and the fail-closed e2e waited on a token that rides only the array under test, so a lost drain would have burned the poll timeout instead of failing the assertion.

Two deferrals, now filed rather than left in this description:

A stream aborted by the guardrail buffer cap reports guardrail_blocked with no policy named #1029 — a stream aborted by the guardrail buffer cap sets guardrail_blocked: true with an empty hits array, because the abort happens in the relay loop and no member ever returns a verdict. GuardrailEnforcedHit's doc now states that this state is legitimate, so a consumer does not read the array as an inverse of the boolean.
/v1/completions emits an empty applied_guardrails while its chain does run #1030 — /v1/completions still emits an empty applied_guardrails while its chain does run. Pre-existing (refactor: #302 Phase A pure clean cut — delete Provider enum + with_name + per-vendor consts #379), and now visibly inconsistent with the hits this PR adds.

The audit independently confirmed the parts that mattered most: it enumerated every UsageEvent construction in the crate mechanically rather than trusting my list and found no missed site (the two unwired ones — a2a.rs and the background batch cost attribution in jobs.rs — resolve no chain); it verified the chain is resolved exactly once per request at all 16 call sites, none inside a retry loop, so there is no cross-request attribution leak; and it confirmed the new e2e actually ran in CI rather than skipping.

One pre-existing failure, untouched: aisix-mcp's bridge::tests::connect_timeout_bounds_an_unreachable_upstream asserts a dial to TEST-NET-3 is cut inside 8s and takes 12s on this host's network. Verified identical on the merge base (0edebb3) — same 12.01s — so it is environmental, not from this change.

Paired control-plane PR: https://github.com/api7/AISIX-Cloud/pull/1369
Closes #1024. DP half of AISIX-Cloud#1365.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Usage and audit events now include enforced guardrail details for blocked, masked, streamed, and multimodal requests.
- Guardrail events identify unavailable services with a specific action and bounded error type.
- Guardrail attribution is supported across chat, messages, responses, completions, embeddings, images, audio, videos, reranking, and passthrough requests.
Bug Fixes
- Fail-closed guardrail outages are no longer reported as ordinary policy blocks.
- Sensitive matched or masked content remains excluded from responses and telemetry.
- Retry and streaming events avoid duplicating guardrail records.

…e event `UsageEvent.guardrail_enforced_hits` shipped on `/mcp` only. The collection half was already attached to every resolved chain, so the rest of the handler family accumulated hits and then dropped them: an enforcing mask on `/v1/messages` (Claude Code) or `/v1/responses` (Codex) rewrote the response and showed up in Prometheus, while the /logs row for that same request read exactly like "no guardrail acted". Nothing errored, so nothing was red. Drains the request's audit log into the terminal event on chat, messages, responses, completions, embeddings, rerank, audio, images, images/edits, videos, jobs, realtime, passthrough routes, and the shared error-event builder. Two details that decide whether this works at all: - Streaming emitters run from a Drop guard after the handler frame is gone, so the chain is not in scope. The audit handle is cloned at the same line `applied_guardrails` is snapshotted and read inside the closure. Without it, streamed traffic - most agent traffic - stays unattributed. - chat re-wraps its chain with `GuardrailChain::new` for the local-model guardrail, and `new` leaves the new outer chain's audit log unset. The handle is taken from the attachment-resolved chain before the erasure, or every enforced hit on the chat path goes unattributed while every sibling endpoint reports normally. Failure paths matter more than success ones here: a guardrail BLOCK leaves through `Err`, so the refusal case is exactly the one a success-only drain misses. The error-event builder now takes the hits, and the jobs surface accumulates them inside its scan helpers - before the block branch returns, since `?` would otherwise discard the chain that recorded them. Guardrails run once per request, not once per attempt, so the retrying families stamp the terminal event only; `terminal_enforced_hits` states that rule once rather than repeating an `if` at each emitter. Separately, `blocked` no longer conflates a content decision with a fail-closed outage. A remote guardrail with `fail_open: false`, or a `mandatory` row, returns `Block` when its upstream is unreachable, so a 30-second provider outage used to stamp every request in the window as a policy violation - a wrong answer for a compliance review rather than a missing one. `GuardrailVerdict::Block` now carries the bounded per-kind failure tag, and those refusals record `blocked_unavailable` plus the cause, so the naive read of `action = "blocked"` is correct by construction. The Prometheus `result` label deliberately does NOT split: it is a shipped label with operator alerting attached, and a new value would silently stop an existing `result="blocked"` alert from counting outages. The cause rides `error_type`, which was already a label and merely gains values. Buffer-overflow fail-closed stream aborts are unchanged - they set `guardrail_blocked` directly and never produce a chain verdict, so they record no audit entry either way. Verification: an e2e boots the real binary against real etcd and a real SOC export target, drives a masked request through `/v1/chat/completions` (streaming and not), `/v1/messages` and `/v1/responses`, and reads the exported event back; every other wired handler has a unit test asserting the refusal names the policy. The chat tests were mutation-checked - breaking the drain fails all four.

…ateway Boots the real binary against real etcd and a real SOC export target, then reads the exported usage event back for `/v1/chat/completions` (streaming and not), `/v1/messages` and `/v1/responses` — the two families named by hand because they carry Claude-Code and Codex traffic, and a chat-only test would stay green forever while they misbehave. One guardrail row governs every endpoint, with a per-endpoint detector inside it, so the exported entry's `counts` key says which handler produced it. No ordering assumptions between cases, and no cross-talk. A separate app covers the fail-closed refusal: a real remote guardrail pointed at a port nothing listens on, with `fail_open: false`. The recorded action is `blocked_unavailable` with the bounded cause, never `blocked` — and the request is still refused, because separating the two attributions must not weaken the guarantee itself.

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Guardrail failures now use blocked_unavailable with bounded error types. Guardrail audit data flows through proxy endpoints and terminal usage events. Tests cover serialization, masking, blocking, streaming, and unavailable-provider failures.

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Guardrail enforcement audit

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Availability verdict and audit contracts `crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs`, `crates/aisix-guardrails/*`	Fail-closed failures preserve bounded availability tags. Audit records distinguish `blocked_unavailable` from ordinary policy blocks and store `error_type`.
Request audit and endpoint propagation `crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs`, `crates/aisix-proxy/src/{chat,completions,embeddings,images*,messages,responses,passthrough_route,realtime,audio,jobs,rerank,videos}.rs`	Request audits now pass through dispatch, success, failure, buffered, streamed, and terminal telemetry paths.
Serialization and end-to-end validation `crates/aisix-obs/src/*`, `crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs`, `tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts`	Tests validate enforced-hit serialization, sensitive-value redaction, policy attribution, and unavailable-provider responses.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd5c7

This PR expands guardrail attribution across LLM handlers and distinguishes policy blocks from provider outages. It is mergeable with owner awareness, but follow-up remains warranted because one end-to-end assertion may not detect stray block records and local-model masking may still be missing from the enforced-hit audit field.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ProxyEndpoint
  participant GuardrailChain
  participant UsageEvent
  participant SOCExporter
  Client->>ProxyEndpoint: submit request
  ProxyEndpoint->>GuardrailChain: resolve and evaluate guardrails
  GuardrailChain-->>ProxyEndpoint: verdict and audit log
  ProxyEndpoint->>UsageEvent: emit terminal event with enforced hits
  UsageEvent->>SOCExporter: serialize guardrail audit data

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The merge blocker was mine and embarrassing: `cargo fmt --check` was red at the PR head, so CI skipped clippy entirely and nothing had ever linted the branch. Formatting is clean now, `clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings` passes, and the hand-inserted rest-patterns rustfmt was too wide to reach are indented by hand. The substantive finding: every per-handler test drove a guardrail BLOCK, which leaves through the shared error event — so deleting the drain from those handlers' SUCCESS emitters would have left all ten green. That is the same silent shape this PR exists to close, one branch over. Added a mask case for each handler whose input hook can actually rewrite (completions, embeddings, rerank, images, images/edits, audio), which is the case a masking deployment lives on: the request is served, nothing errors, and without the drain the row is indistinguishable from one no guardrail touched. The block-only handlers (videos, jobs, realtime, passthrough) cannot populate the array on success at all, so their refusal test is the complete surface. Worst of them was audio: the streamed transcription relay's end-of-stream emit — the one closure on that surface that runs after the handler frame is gone, and the whole reason the audit handle is cloned rather than read from the chain — had no coverage whatsoever, because the audio refusal test drives `/v1/audio/speech` through a different dispatch. It has its own test now. Also from the audit: - `error_type` reaches an unsanitized Prometheus label. Every producer passes a `bypass_tag()` constant today, but the field's type is `String` and cannot say so — `MandatoryGuardrail` forwards whatever reason the inner `Bypass` carried. Clamped at construction to lowercase alphanumerics and underscores, 64 bytes, so a future free-text bypass reason cannot mint one metric series per distinct string or put content on an event #153 governs. - The comment justifying the audio relay's cloned handle named a case that cannot occur on that branch: a mask-capable chain never takes the live relay. It carries the input-side hits; the wording now says so. - `GuardrailEnforcedHit`'s doc still described the old three-part coalescing key, and did not say that `guardrail_blocked: true` with an empty array is legitimate — a stream aborted by the guardrail buffer cap is refused without any member returning a verdict, so there is no policy to name. Filed as #1029 rather than left as a sentence. - The e2e's hit extractor also matched a `guardrail_monitor_hits` array; staged entries are now dropped by their `would_*` actions. The fail-closed case waited on the guardrail row name, which rides only the array under test — a lost drain would have burned the poll timeout instead of failing the assertion. It waits on the requested model now. `/v1/completions` still emits an empty `applied_guardrails` — a sibling field with its own issue number, filed as #1030.

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1273-1311: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Attribute local-model masks in enforced-hit telemetry.

LocalModelGuardrail masks through segment hooks, but the outer GuardrailChain::new has no audit log. Therefore, UsageEvent.guardrail_enforced_hits records attachment guardrails but omits local_model masks. Add a regression test and propagate the request audit handle to the wrapper chain.
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs` around lines 1273 - 1311, Update the chat
guardrail composition around resolved_chain and GuardrailChain::new so the
wrapper retains and propagates the request audit handle from
resolved.audit_log(), allowing LocalModelGuardrail segment masks to appear in
UsageEvent.guardrail_enforced_hits. Add a regression test covering an enforced
local-model mask and asserting its telemetry attribution is recorded.

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tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts (1)
82-93: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Parse the SLS record before extracting guardrail_enforced_hits.

MockSls exposes compressed request bodies and decoded text only. Add a structured decoder in tests/e2e/src/harness/sls-mock.ts. Read guardrail_enforced_hits from the parsed record instead of depending on key order and the first }]. The current catch can turn changed output into an empty hit list.
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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts` around
lines 82 - 93, Replace the regex-based hitsIn extraction with a structured
decoder in MockSls within sls-mock.ts: parse the compressed request body or
decoded SLS record, then read guardrail_enforced_hits from the parsed record
regardless of key order. Update the test to use that decoder and preserve
filtering of would_ actions, without converting malformed or changed output into
a silently empty hit list.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/chain.rs`:
- Around line 200-217: Update the documentation for
GuardrailExecution.error_type in the guardrail model to state that it may be
populated for both bypassed executions and fail-closed blocked executions, while
preserving the existing explanation of the error tag’s meaning.

In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/rerank.rs`:
- Around line 2013-2017: Extend the test assertions for the first entry in
ev.guardrail_enforced_hits to verify that guardrail_name equals "t", alongside
the existing hook and action checks, so the test confirms the intended policy
produced the enforcement record.

In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs`:
- Around line 42-50: Update the documentation for enforced_hits to say
“Snapshot” instead of “Drain,” accurately describing its non-destructive call to
GuardrailAuditLog::snapshot and avoiding the implication that the audit log is
consumed.

In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 261-271: Update expectAuditedMask to wait on the independent model
display name rather than detector, then continue filtering
guardrail_enforced_hits by detector for the assertion. Apply the same change to
all four call sites, preserving the existing descriptive hits.length assertion.
- Around line 459-474: Keep the existing filtered hits validation for the
presidio-prod guardrail, but evaluate the no-blocked invariant against the full
result of hitsIn(decoded) rather than the filtered hits variable. Ensure any
entry in the request is rejected when action is "blocked", while preserving the
current per-guardrail assertions.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs`:
- Around line 1273-1311: Update the chat guardrail composition around
resolved_chain and GuardrailChain::new so the wrapper retains and propagates the
request audit handle from resolved.audit_log(), allowing LocalModelGuardrail
segment masks to appear in UsageEvent.guardrail_enforced_hits. Add a regression
test covering an enforced local-model mask and asserting its telemetry
attribution is recorded.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 82-93: Replace the regex-based hitsIn extraction with a structured
decoder in MockSls within sls-mock.ts: parse the compressed request body or
decoded SLS record, then read guardrail_enforced_hits from the parsed record
regardless of key order. Update the test to use that decoder and preserve
filtering of would_ actions, without converting malformed or changed output into
a silently empty hit list.

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crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/aliyun.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/aliyun_ai_guardrail.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/audit.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/bedrock.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/build.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/chain.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/lakera.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/lib.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/openai_moderation.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/presidio.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/prompt_shield.rs
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/text_moderation.rs
crates/aisix-obs/src/sink/record.rs
crates/aisix-obs/src/usage.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/completions.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/embeddings.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/images.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/images_edits.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/jobs.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/realtime.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/rerank.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses_bridge.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/videos.rs
tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts

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- `GuardrailExecution.error_type`'s doc still said the tag exists only on a fail-OPEN bypass. It now rides a fail-CLOSED block too, and that doc renders into the generated API reference. Says so now, including why `result` deliberately does not split. - Six tests named "names the policy" asserted the count, hook and action but not the name — the one field the title promises and the one an auditor reads. Each asserts its own row's name now. - `enforced_hits`'s doc said "drain". It snapshots: the read does not consume the log, and that is load-bearing rather than incidental, since the retrying families call it from emitters that also serve superseded attempts. - The e2e's masking cases waited on the detector name. That is present independently of the array under test (it also rides `redacted_entity_counts`) so the gate was sound, but it coupled the wait to a second field that could itself regress. Gated on the requested model instead, which every event carries, so a lost drain fails by assertion rather than by burning the poll.

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1276-1344: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the misleading audit-clone comment on emit_usage_event.

The comment at lines 2058-2062 says the audit handle is "cloned into the streaming closure ... so the held-back relay's end-of-stream emit reports the output-hook mask that ran after the handler frame was already gone."

This mixes up the two relay branches:

"held-back relay" names the BUFFERED path (block/mask-capable output chains), per the comment at lines 903-914. That path emits synchronously inside the same handler call — it has no "end-of-stream emit" running "after the handler frame was already gone."

The branch that does clone the audit into a closure running after the handler frame ends is the Live relay (lines 1276-1284). The comment there explicitly states that branch carries only INPUT-side hits and that its own end-of-stream scan "writes no enforced hit of its own" — the opposite of an "output-hook mask."

The tests confirm the real behavior: streamed_transcription_mask_names_the_policy_on_the_usage_event asserts hook: "input" on the streamed emit, not "output". Update the parameter comment to reference the Live relay branch and the input-hook hit, not "held-back relay" and "output-hook mask", so future edits to this audit-threading logic are not guided by an inaccurate description.
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-    // The request's enforced-guardrail audit handle (AISIX-Cloud#1330).
-    // Cloned into the streaming closure at the same point `applied` is,
-    // so the held-back relay's end-of-stream emit reports the output-hook
-    // mask that ran after the handler frame was already gone.
+    // The request's enforced-guardrail audit handle (AISIX-Cloud#1330).
+    // On the LIVE relay branch, cloned into the streaming closure at the
+    // same point `applied` is (see the branch above), so the end-of-stream
+    // emit — which runs after the handler frame is already gone — can
+    // still report the INPUT-hook hit (e.g. a masked `prompt` field) that
+    // ran before the stream started. That branch's own end-of-stream scan
+    // is monitor-only and adds no enforced hit of its own.
     audit: &crate::usage_attr::GuardrailAudit,
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs` around lines 1276 - 1344, Update the
audit-handle parameter comment for emit_usage_event to describe the Live relay
closure, which runs after the handler frame ends and carries the input-hook hit;
remove references to the held-back/buffered relay and any output-hook mask.

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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs`:
- Around line 1276-1344: Update the audit-handle parameter comment for
emit_usage_event to describe the Live relay closure, which runs after the
handler frame ends and carries the input-hook hit; remove references to the
held-back/buffered relay and any output-hook mask.

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crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/completions.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/images.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/images_edits.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/rerank.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs
crates/aisix-proxy/src/videos.rs
tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-enforced-hits-llm-family-e2e.test.ts

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… hits The assertion was a tautology: it re-checked the set the loop above had just established was entirely `blocked_unavailable`, so it could not fail once the loop passed. The comment above it claimed the wider property — that nothing on this request claims a policy decision — so evaluate that, against every entry the exporter rendered. This app's exporter serves only this test, so the unfiltered set is scoped to the request under test.

… local-model runtime (#1033) Implements the data-plane half of AISIX-Cloud#1363 (#1031): the local CPU embedding-model guardrail graduates from an env-activated, compile-time-constant MVP into the standard `kind: "semantic"` — categories are user config, rows resolve through guardrail_attachments, and the capability ships in the default build and image. Config model (aisix-core): - GuardrailKind::Semantic(SemanticConfig): 1..=30 categories, each {name (unique in row), description, candidate_patterns, negative_patterns, hotword_groups, action (mask only), replacement, threshold in [-1,1]}; strict write schema closes the branch and pins action to ["mask"]; lenient loads stay tolerant. Schema regenerated. Runtime (aisix-guardrails): - One process-wide SemanticRuntime: boot verifies the model bundle's manifest.json (per-file sha256, embedding dim, calibrated default threshold — the model/prototype/threshold consistency unit); ONNX sessions and description prototypes load lazily on first use, cached by content, so nodes without semantic rows spend no model memory. - SemanticGuardrail rows compile per category (three-layer pipeline: candidate regexes -> hotword/negative rule scoring -> embedding cosine vs the category description); categories compose in order; every cap and failure degrades open (release + a counted degrade), never blocks or stalls. Lane waits time out at 500ms. - Engine failure flips a capability flag; the heartbeat advertises "semantic" in supported_guardrail_kinds only while the bundle stays verified (readiness = "could serve": creating a row is what triggers the lazy load, so the advert cannot deadlock the create flow). - The MVP category constants become the factory EDA-version template, kept as the test fixture; the retired GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_ THRESHOLD/PROTOTYPES/RULE_WINDOW env vars warn and are ignored. Wiring (aisix-proxy, aisix-server): - Semantic rows ride the standard chain: chat, /v1/messages, /v1/responses and legacy completions come via the existing moderate_body segment pass; /mcp gains an async segment-moderation pass (both directions) that collects, moderates and splices through the same byte-splice walker as the sync write-back — one slot set, no new text shape (aisix#1027 stays independent). /mcp checks move to the check_*_non_segment variants, so segment members are consulted exactly once per hook. - The chat-only env-injected re-wrap (the #1028/#1024 audit-handle workaround) is deleted; enforced hits now attribute the semantic ROW name with per-category counts like every other kind. - Metrics: aisix_guardrail_semantic_model_calls_total and aisix_guardrail_semantic_degraded_total{reason} (bounded vocabulary), asserted in GET /metrics by e2e; per-execution latency series come free from the chain fold. - Feature default flipped ON (server + forwarded proxy feature); remaining families without a segment walker (embeddings, rerank, audio, images, passthrough) are tracked in #1032. Packaging (Dockerfile): - New guardrail-model stage downloads the pinned upstream revision and verifies it against docker/guardrail-model.manifest.json (the same document the gateway re-verifies at boot), then bakes the bundle at the binary's default path — kind "semantic" works out of the box; GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR overrides for model upgrades. Compatibility: a new kind enum value row-rejects on older data planes (visible in rejected_resources); the paired control-plane change (AISIX-Cloud#1371) registers the dpCompatGate entry and the save-time capability warning. Upgrade order: control plane first. Tests: unit coverage for schema/compile/manifest/degrade paths and the ported rule-layer acceptance matrix (the adversarial corpus instrument keeps its rule-exactness floor; the v1 description-form model band is pinned to never mis-mask); e2e guardrail-semantic-kind (model-free fake bundle: chat + messages + responses + mcp masking, scope isolation, monitor mode, degrade metrics) and the real-model opt-in suite now drives a semantic row and asserts the model-call metric family. Follow-up commits squashed in: Docker builder/runtime moved to Debian trixie (prebuilt onnxruntime needs glibc >= 2.38); independent-audit fixes (detached engine warm at chain build + bounded request-side wait, no caching of transient prototype failures, candidate_patterns required in the strict schema); CodeRabbit review fixes (semantic branch requires categories and pins fail_open, window-clipped negative scans, mcp drift fails closed, corpus corruption classification, model LICENSE in the image bundle, e2e self-sufficiency). Cross-plane counterpart: api7/AISIX-Cloud#1372. Deferred endpoint families tracked in #1032.

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A stream aborted by the guardrail buffer cap reports guardrail_blocked with no policy named #1029

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/v1/completions emits an empty applied_guardrails while its chain does run #1030

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Also in this PR: blocked no longer conflates a decision with an outage (AISIX-Cloud#1365)

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