Minimal Guardrails as a Service Implementation

[CalebCourier]

Pull Request Type

• Breaking Change
• Feature
• Bug Fix

Link to Notion Task or Github Issue

https://www.notion.so/guardrailsai/Merge-main-GaaS-4c764274407e440abacb986ac9bc0e8b?pvs=4

Summary of Feature(s)

• Adds API Client and serialization methods to allow running select Guards on the Guardrails as a Service API
• Patch structures to get back and forth between OSS and API to work "as-is"

[CalebCourier]

We'll need to make the api client repo public before we merge/release this

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 42.06897% with 84 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

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guardrails/guard.py	39.43%	43 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/llm_providers.py	46.42%	15 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/rail.py	20.00%	8 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/api_client.py	70.00%	6 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/schema/string_schema.py	16.66%	5 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/datatypes.py	20.00%	4 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/schema/schema.py	33.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
guardrails/prompt/base_prompt.py	50.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[CalebCourier]

We should merge this one first so we can do a gh release and point to that version: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails-api-client/pull/6/files