Rebuff

Palo Alto Networks

Open Source

Prompt injection defense project archived in May 2025 and not recommended for new projects.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

Apache 2.0Version 0.1.11,522

Strengths

  • Prompt-injection focus
  • Archived OSS reference point
  • Historically notable

Practitioner note

Most relevant as a lightweight prompt-injection defense layer in custom stacks, not as a broad end-to-end AI governance product.

Warning

Rebuff: Archived May 16, 2025. Do not recommend for new projects.

Where it sits in the stack

Listed under Guardrails & security in the Control plane layer.

  1. Build & orchestrate
  2. Control plane
  3. Use

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
N/AData residency

Archived OSS library; operator-controlled if used.

YesDeployment model

Archived (2025-05-16); self-hosted if used; not recommended for new deployments. (self-hosted)

Source
N/AAudit logging

Archived library; no infrastructure.

N/ASOC 2

Archived OSS library.

N/AISO 27001

Archived OSS library.

N/AISO 42001

Archived OSS library.

N/AEU AI Act

Archived prompt-injection defense library; not an active AI system. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

Apache-2.0 — permissive; archived (abandonment risk). (low)

Source

EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Not applicable · as of 2026-10-10

Source-backed information mapped from Rebuff'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: 1516 → 1522

    From snapshot diff 2026-08-22 → 2026-09-13.

  2. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 1510 → 1516

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

  3. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 1498 → 1510

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

Explore the category

Compare this tool against the rest of its category and the cloud platform foundation layer.