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LLM Guard

Palo Alto Networks (Protect AI)

Open Source

Open source safety filtering toolkit whose development has slowed following acquisition activity.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

MITVersion 0.3.163,202
DocsRepository

Strengths

  • Prompt/output scanning
  • PII and toxicity detectors
  • Useful safety primitives

Practitioner note

Best for security-minded teams that want open source scanning around prompts and outputs and are comfortable assembling their own policy pipeline.

Warning

LLM Guard: Development slowed significantly post acquisition. Last meaningful commit noted as December 2025 in the guide.

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
YesData residency

Self-hosted library; data stays on operator infrastructure.

Source
YesDeployment model

Open-source Python library; maintenance mode, no managed service. (self-hosted)

Source
N/AAudit logging

No built-in audit log in the OSS library.

N/ASOC 2

Self-hosted library; certification applies to the operator.

N/AISO 27001

Self-hosted library; applies to the operator's ISMS.

N/AISO 42001

Self-hosted library; applies to the operator.

N/AEU AI Act

OSS safety-filtering library; not itself an AI system. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

MIT — permissive; note maintenance-mode operational risk. (low)

Source

EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Not applicable · as of 2026-08-23

Source-backed information mapped from LLM Guard's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

This record's EU AI Act risk tier is marked not applicable, so no tier-specific obligations attach. Deployers embedding it in an AI system in scope of the Act should assess that system's own tier.

Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

  1. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 3163 → 3202

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  2. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 3045 → 3163

    From snapshot diff 2026-06-07 → 2026-07-17.

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