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Closes #1151

Summary

For the guardrails service being proxied through kaapi-backend to work, we need to add identical routes to kaapi-guardrails in kaapi-backend too. They must mirror the API request schema parsed without error by kaapi-guardrails service. The routes have been added in this PR.

Also, kaapi-backend sends X-ORGANIZATION-ID and X-PROJECT-ID post resolving the X-API-KEY token through the payload for kaapi-guardrails to process i.e REST request verbs are independent of the above two arguments and only concerned with payloads being proxied.

  • Implemented the header decorator to transport X-ORGANIZATION-ID and X-PROJECT-ID over the wire to guardrails service.
  • Ensured compatibility with existing guardrail api routes (mirroring kaapi-guardrails endpoints)

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https://gist.github.com/Prajna1999/ed21768591fcbc4d7a89f4e35ade2ea3

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  • New Features

    • Added management APIs for guardrail validator types, ban lists, prompt configurations, and validator configurations, including create, view, update, and delete operations.
    • Guardrail requests now support tenant context through request headers.
    • Guardrail validation blocks requests and responses reduced to empty content.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Guardrail authentication failures now fail closed instead of bypassing validation.
    • Improved tracing context propagation across background jobs.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guardrail API documentation and routing guidance.

@github-actions github-actions Bot changed the title feat: add header decorator to /guardrails feat(guardrails): Add header decorator functionality Aug 18, 2026
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The change adds authenticated guardrails management proxies, moves tenant identifiers to headers, makes selected validation failures fail closed, blocks empty guarded content, and updates OpenTelemetry and Sentry configuration.

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Guardrails and observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guardrails proxy service
backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py, backend/app/api/routes/guardrails.py
The guardrails client forwards management requests with tenant headers, preserves upstream responses, traces proxy calls, and handles unavailable or invalid upstream responses.
Guardrails management routes
backend/app/api/routes/guardrails.py, backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_guardrails.py, docs/wiki/modules/llm-call.md
The API exposes validator, ban-list, prompt-config, and validator-config catalogue and CRUD proxies. Tests cover forwarding, authentication, response handling, and route ordering.
Validation headers and failure handling
backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py, backend/app/services/llm/jobs.py, backend/app/tests/services/llm/test_guardrails.py
Validation sends tenant identifiers in headers, rejects authentication failures without bypassing, and blocks empty input or output after guardrails processing.
Telemetry propagation and data capture
backend/app/celery/tasks/job_execution.py, backend/app/core/telemetry.py, backend/app/celery/celery_app.py, backend/app/main.py
Celery manually attaches extracted trace context, Sentry propagation uses SentryPropagator, and Sentry request and response body capture is disabled.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Suggested reviewers: nishika26, vprashrex

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant GuardrailsAPI
  participant GuardrailsService
  participant GuardrailsServiceUpstream
  Client->>GuardrailsAPI: Send guardrails management request
  GuardrailsAPI->>GuardrailsService: Forward authenticated request context
  GuardrailsService->>GuardrailsServiceUpstream: Send tenant headers and request data
  GuardrailsServiceUpstream-->>GuardrailsService: Return status and response body
  GuardrailsService-->>GuardrailsAPI: Return upstream result
  GuardrailsAPI-->>Client: Return proxied response
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9dcea

The telemetry changes can fragment traces across service and Celery boundaries, reducing production observability. These issues should be resolved before merge.

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OpenAPI changes   🟢 16 non-breaking changes

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Safe to merge from an API-contract perspective.

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Method Path Change
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/ban_lists endpoint added
🟢 POST /api/v1/guardrails/ban_lists endpoint added
🟢 DELETE /api/v1/guardrails/ban_lists/{ban_list_id} endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/ban_lists/{ban_list_id} endpoint added
🟢 PATCH /api/v1/guardrails/ban_lists/{ban_list_id} endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/llm_prompt_configs endpoint added
🟢 POST /api/v1/guardrails/llm_prompt_configs endpoint added
🟢 DELETE /api/v1/guardrails/llm_prompt_configs/{prompt_config_id} endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/llm_prompt_configs/{prompt_config_id} endpoint added
🟢 PATCH /api/v1/guardrails/llm_prompt_configs/{prompt_config_id} endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/validators/configs endpoint added
🟢 POST /api/v1/guardrails/validators/configs endpoint added
🟢 DELETE /api/v1/guardrails/validators/configs/{config_id} endpoint added
🟢 GET /api/v1/guardrails/validators/configs/{config_id} endpoint added
🟢 PATCH /api/v1/guardrails/validators/configs/{config_id} endpoint added

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❌ Patch coverage is 97.57576% with 8 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
backend/app/celery/tasks/job_execution.py 62.50% 3 Missing ⚠️
backend/app/core/telemetry.py 33.33% 2 Missing ⚠️
backend/app/services/llm/jobs.py 66.66% 2 Missing ⚠️
backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py 97.95% 1 Missing ⚠️

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Prajna1999 and others added 6 commits August 18, 2026 10:58
Expose the internal kaapi-guardrails management API (validator catalogue,
ban lists, LLM prompt configs, validator configs) through 16 passthrough
routes behind project auth. Tenant travels only in X-ORGANIZATION-ID /
X-PROJECT-ID headers set from the auth context; 401/403/422 from the
service fail the job instead of bypassing, with client-visible errors
sanitized to status codes only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Prajna1999 Prajna1999 changed the title feat(guardrails): Add header decorator functionality feat(guardrails): implement new auth via kaapi-backend to kaapi-guardrails Sep 6, 2026
@Prajna1999 Prajna1999 self-assigned this Sep 6, 2026
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backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py (1)

40-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use narrow types at the guardrails boundary.

The project requires narrow annotations for every parameter and return value, and backend/pyproject.toml configures strict mypy. Replace Any in proxy_guardrails_request and _upstream_response with JsonObject/JsonValue or stable request models. Use narrow query types and request-body types in the management routes. Annotate _mock_upstream with its yielded iterator, and type mock_client_cls and status_code in the affected tests.

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In `@backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py` around lines 40 - 48, Replace broad
Any annotations in proxy_guardrails_request and _upstream_response with
JsonObject/JsonValue or stable request models, and use narrow query and
request-body types in the management routes. Annotate _mock_upstream with its
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In `@backend/app/api/routes/guardrails.py`:
- Line 101: Update _upstream_response so both the Response and JSONResponse
return branches include the Cache-Control header set to no-store. Apply this
explicitly to each tenant-specific proxy response and do not use private as a
substitute.

In `@backend/app/celery/tasks/job_execution.py`:
- Around line 76-78: Update _run_with_otel_parent to preserve the active Celery
task span while applying the extracted parent context, ensuring spans created by
fn remain children of the task span. Capture the external parent context before
Celery creates its task span or supply it during task-span creation, and add
regression coverage for valid task-span and valid-header scenarios.
- Line 65: Update _run_with_otel_parent by annotating task_instance as Task and
the callback as Callable[[], T], using a TypeVar T so the function return type
preserves the callback’s result type.

In `@backend/app/core/telemetry.py`:
- Line 203: Update the propagator configuration around set_global_textmap and
SentryPropagator to use a composite propagator that injects and extracts both
Sentry and W3C formats, preserving parent context at HTTP and Celery boundaries.

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In `@backend/app/services/llm/guardrails.py`:
- Around line 40-48: Replace broad Any annotations in proxy_guardrails_request
and _upstream_response with JsonObject/JsonValue or stable request models, and
use narrow query and request-body types in the management routes. Annotate
_mock_upstream with its yielded iterator, and add explicit types for
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Comment thread backend/app/api/routes/guardrails.py Outdated
"""An empty upstream body must stay empty (204s cannot carry one)."""
if payload is None:
return Response(status_code=status_code)
return JSONResponse(status_code=status_code, content=payload)

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n -i -C 3 'cache[-_ ]control|no-store|no-cache|expires|middleware' backend --glob '*.py' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.toml' --glob '*.json' || true

printf '%s\n' '--- application entrypoints and middleware declarations ---'
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Prevent cache reuse of tenant-specific proxy responses.

_upstream_response returns a new Response or JSONResponse, and the application middleware does not add cache directives. Add Cache-Control: no-store to both branches. Do not rely on private for tenant isolation.

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@@ -63,19 +63,21 @@ def _extract_parent_context(task_instance) -> otel_context.Context:


def _run_with_otel_parent(task_instance, fn):

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add narrow type hints to _run_with_otel_parent.

backend/pyproject.toml enables strict mypy checks, and this untyped helper violates the repository’s typing contract. Annotate task_instance as Task and use Callable[[], T] with a TypeVar for the callback and return value.

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Comment thread backend/app/celery/tasks/job_execution.py
Comment thread backend/app/core/telemetry.py
@Prajna1999 Prajna1999 changed the title feat(guardrails): implement new auth via kaapi-backend to kaapi-guardrails feat(guardrails): implement new auth and endpoint proxy routing to kaapi-guardrails Sep 6, 2026
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@Prajna1999 codecov report is failing, please check this.

- Add test coverage for the 16 new guardrails proxy routes (forwarding,
  filters, UUID normalization, pagination bounds, route ordering, auth).
- Set Cache-Control: no-store on guardrails proxy responses to prevent
  caching of tenant-scoped data (CWE-525).
- Add narrow type hints to _run_with_otel_parent/_extract_parent_context
  per repo's strict mypy contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment on lines +416 to +419
# A fix-mode validator that supplies no fix_value (e.g. topic_relevance
# with no built-in fix) falls back to "" — forwarding that to the LLM
# provider fails with a confusing provider-side error instead of a
# clear guardrails-blocked one.

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remove these longs comments and also add testacse for this thing where if guardrails strip a prompt down to nothing, we now stop and fail the job with a clear "guardrails removed everything" message instead of forwarding an empty prompt to the provider and getting back a confusing provider-side error.

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approved with minor comments. please take care of these cleanups before merging.

Comment thread backend/app/api/routes/guardrails.py Outdated
Comment on lines +109 to +114
# ROUTE ORDERING: every fixed single-segment path below collides with the
# GET /guardrails/{job_id} route declared after this section. FastAPI matches in
# declaration order and does not fall through when {job_id} fails UUID parsing,
# so these must stay above it.


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please make this a single-liner.

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try to use the less comment lines

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"""Attach the extracted parent context and execute `fn` under it.

We only attach extracted context as a fallback when no active span exists.
opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery's own extraction (CeleryGetter)
reads headers via getattr(task.request, key), but propagation headers
live in task.request.headers — so it never finds them and its `run/...`
span is always an unparented root. We extract from `.headers` ourselves
(see _extract_parent_context) and attach that as current before running
the task body, so spans created inside `fn` correctly nest under the
enqueueing request's trace instead of starting a disconnected one.
"""

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this is too long comment, make this also bit sorter.

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# LLM input/output is end-user text; never attach request/response
# bodies to error events or trace transactions.

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not needed.

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Prajna1999 merged commit f252574 into main Sep 11, 2026
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