Opik Guardrails Backend

This is the backend service for Opik Guardrails.

There are two Dockerfiles:

Dockerfile (default) — GPU image built on the NVIDIA CUDA runtime. Uses the GPU when one is available and falls back to CPU automatically otherwise.
Dockerfile.cpu — CPU-only image on a slim, multi-arch (amd64 + arm64) Python base. No GPU or NVIDIA Container Toolkit required, and it builds on machines without CUDA (e.g. Apple Silicon). Intended for local development and CPU-only self-hosting.

Running as part of the Opik stack

From the repository root:

bash

# GPU (default) — requires an NVIDIA GPU with a driver and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit
./opik.sh --guardrails

# CPU — builds Dockerfile.cpu from source, no GPU required
./opik.sh --guardrails-cpu

The guardrails service is then reachable through the frontend proxy at http://localhost:5173/guardrails. Point the guardrails client at it with OPIK_GUARDRAILS_URL_OVERRIDE=http://localhost:5173/guardrails (or leave it unset when url_override already targets the local stack — the client derives the guardrails URL from it). Add --port-mapping to also expose the service directly on http://localhost:5000.

Running standalone with Docker

Prerequisites

Docker.
For the GPU image only: an NVIDIA GPU with a driver and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit.

GPU mode

bash

cd apps/opik-guardrails-backend
docker build -t opik-guardrails-backend:latest .
docker run -p 5000:5000 --gpus all opik-guardrails-backend:latest

CPU mode

bash

cd apps/opik-guardrails-backend
docker build -f Dockerfile.cpu -t opik-guardrails-backend:cpu .
docker run -p 5000:5000 opik-guardrails-backend:cpu

The server will be available at http://localhost:5000

Device selection

OPIK_GUARDRAILS_DEVICE selects the inference device (defaults to cuda:0 on the GPU image, cpu on the CPU image). The GPU image detects at startup whether a CUDA GPU is available and falls back to CPU when it is not, so it also runs on CPU-only hosts. On a multi-GPU host, CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES controls which GPUs are visible to the container.

API Endpoints

Validation

This endpoint allows you to perform multiple validations on the same text in a single request.

bash

curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/api/v1/guardrails/validations \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "This text is about artificial intelligence. My name is John Doe and my email is [email protected].",
    "validations": [
      {
        "type": "TOPIC",
        "config": {
          "topics": ["politics", "religion", "artificial intelligence"],
          "threshold": 0.5,
          "mode": "restrict"
        }
      },
      {
        "type": "PII",
        "config": {
          "entities": ["PERSON", "EMAIL_ADDRESS"],
          "language": "en",
          "threshold": 0.5
        }
      }
    ]
  }'

Parameters:

text: The text to validate (required)
validations: Array of validation instructions (required)
- Each validation requires:
  - type: Type of validation to perform (TOPIC or PII)
  - config: Configuration specific to the validation type
    - For TOPIC type: A TopicValidationConfig object with parameters:
      - topics: Array of topics to check against (required)
      - threshold: Confidence threshold for topic detection (default: 0.5)
      - mode: Mode for topic matching, either "restrict" or "allow" (required)
        
        restrict: Validation passes if NONE of the topics match (used for content filtering)
        
        allow: Validation passes if at least one of the topics matches (used for content classification)
    - For PII type: A PIIValidationConfig object with parameters:
      - entities: Array of specific entity types to detect (if not provided, all supported entity types will be detected). Default entities include: "IP_ADDRESS", "PHONE_NUMBER", "PERSON", "MEDICAL_LICENSE", "URL", "EMAIL_ADDRESS", "IBAN_CODE". Supported entities can be found here: https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/supported_entities/
      - language: Language of the text (default: "en")
      - threshold: Confidence threshold for PII detection (default: 0.5)

Example response:

json

{
  "validation_passed": false,
  "validations": [
    {
      "validation_passed": false,
      "type": "TOPIC",
      "validation_config": {
        "topics": ["politics", "religion", "artificial intelligence"],
        "threshold": 0.5,
        "mode": "restrict"
      },
      "validation_details": {
        "matched_topics_scores": {
          "artificial intelligence": 0.85
        },
        "scores": {
          "politics": 0.12,
          "religion": 0.05,
          "artificial intelligence": 0.85
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "validation_passed": false,
      "type": "PII",
      "validation_config": {
        "entities": ["PERSON", "EMAIL_ADDRESS"],
        "language": "en",
        "threshold": 0.5
      },
      "validation_details": {
        "detected_entities": {
          "PERSON": [
            {
              "start": 51,
              "end": 59,
              "score": 0.85,
              "text": "John Doe"
            }
          ],
          "EMAIL_ADDRESS": [
            {
              "start": 73,
              "end": 92,
              "score": 1.0,
              "text": "[email protected]"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}