NeMo Guardrails

Generated Evaluation Status

This section is generated from the framework manifest and compatibility report. Do not edit it manually.

• Framework ID: nemo-guardrails
• Manifest: docs/external-frameworks/nemo-guardrails.json
• Compatibility report: ./reports/nemo-guardrails.compatibility.json
• Evidence class: SOURCE_REVIEWED
• Independently reproducible: False
• Comparative-testing claim allowed: False
• Missing reproducibility gates: shared_test_vector, raw_output, timestamp, runtime_configuration, source_version_or_hash, replay_commands, declared_expected_outcome, independent_reproduction
• Evaluation result: COMPATIBILITY_EVIDENCE_ONLY
• Cycle status: FIRST_FRAMEWORK_CYCLE_COMPLETE
• Execution authority claim: False
• Next bounded action: Add executable observations, raw outputs, pinned versions, replay commands, and independent reproduction before making comparative-testing claims.
• Posting source: generated compatibility report
• Generated status is descriptive compatibility evidence only.

Generated Authored Analysis Boundary

This section is generated. Do not edit it manually.

• Framework ID: nemo-guardrails
• Framework name: NeMo Guardrails
• Generated sections above this boundary may be rebuilt from registry, manifest, compatibility-report, and result artifacts.
• Authored analysis below this boundary may contain interpretation, notes, and framework-specific discussion.
• Generators must preserve authored analysis unless a future validator explicitly declares a migration path.
• Boundary rule: generated material is descriptive compatibility evidence only and does not create certification, endorsement, adoption, proof, or operational permission.

Generated Transition Mapping

This section is generated from the framework manifest. Do not edit it manually.

Field	Generated Value
framework_identity	NeMo Guardrails
source_reference	https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/guardrails/home
source_version	official NVIDIA documentation recorded
allowed_use_boundary	runtime rail and intervention evidence only
claims	programmable controls for flows, content, topics, retrieval, and tool interactions
non_claims	no policy legitimacy, delegation, standing, certification, or execution authority
input_artifact_type	rail configuration, model input, retrieval context, or tool interaction
output_artifact_type	rail pass, block, redirection, or intervention evidence
actor_or_authority_model	configured runtime actors and integrations; authority not established
evidence_model	official documentation plus local bounded crosswalk
policy_or_rule_model	configured rails and runtime integrations
delegation_model	must be reconstructed independently
decision_or_result_model	rail result or intervention only
execution_authority_claim	false
receipt_or_trace_model	rail configuration, runtime trace, and local compatibility record
reconstruction_model	configuration, models, integrations, context, and output required
SPE_overlap	rail evidence may inform standing and policy review
StegVerse_ecosystem_overlap	preparation, commitment, execution-boundary, and unknown-trajectory evidence
fail_closed_conditions	missing rail configuration, model or integration version, runtime context, raw output, or authority overclaim

Generated mapping is compatibility evidence only.

Generated Framework Metadata

This section is generated from the external-framework registry. Do not edit it manually.

• Framework ID: nemo-guardrails
• Name: NeMo Guardrails
• Registry status: SOURCED-CROSSWALK-PROVISIONAL
• Testbench state: SOURCE_RECORDED_CROSSWALK_PROVISIONAL
• Manifest path: docs/external-frameworks/nemo-guardrails.json
• Source reference: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/guardrails/home
• Metadata boundary: generated metadata is descriptive only; it does not create certification, endorsement, formalism adoption, admissibility proof, or execution authority.

Evidence posture

evidence_class: SOURCE_REVIEWED
page_completeness: COMPLETE_WITH_EXTERNAL_GATES
runtime_observation: none attached
independent_reproduction: false
comparative_testing_claim_allowed: false
execution_authority_claim_allowed: false

Published scope

NeMo Guardrails is a programmable framework for controlling conversational flows, content, topics, retrieval, and tool interactions around LLM applications.

Canonical source: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/guardrails/home

Source snapshot posture: official documentation is recorded, but no pinned package, rail configuration, model and retrieval stack, tool integration, raw event trace, or independent replay receipt is attached.

Native terms

NeMo Guardrails term	Meaning here	StegVerse relationship
Rail	Configured conversational or execution constraint.	Runtime boundary evidence; not inherited authority.
Colang or rail configuration	Logic defining flows and interventions.	Policy-like artifact requiring version and scope checks.
Input or output rail	Check around user input or model output.	Validation evidence; not commit-time admissibility.
Retrieval or execution rail	Constraint around retrieval or tools.	Preparation or execution evidence requiring separate authorization.

Relationship to admissibility

NeMo Guardrails asks: Does this interaction follow the configured rails and flows?
StegVerse asks: May the resulting transition bind consequence under current authority and evidence?

Configured rails can contribute runtime-boundary and intervention evidence. Rail configuration, model behavior, retrieval state, policy legitimacy, delegation, and consequence authority remain separately reconstructable.

Observation boundary

No public StegVerse NeMo Guardrails runtime observation is claimed.

shared test vector: missing
raw rail event trace: missing
timestamp: missing
rail, model, retrieval, and tool configuration: missing
package and configuration hashes: missing
replay commands: missing
declared expected outcome: missing
independent reproduction: missing

StegVerse analysis

Criterion	Current result
Identity	Rails evaluate interaction state; they do not establish actor standing.
Authority	A rail pass or block does not grant or revoke execution authority.
Policy	Rail logic may encode policy fragments, but legitimacy and current applicability remain external.
Delegation	Tool or retrieval access must be reconstructed separately.
Evidence	Rail events, model calls, retrieval records, tool traces, and configuration can become evidence.
Replayability	Requires pinned package, rail files, models, prompts, retrieval corpus, tools, and runtime.
Reconstructability	Partial until the full intervention and execution trace is retained.
Failure behavior	Missing rail, exception, unknown flow, or tool ambiguity must fail closed.
Interoperability	Rail outcomes can enter a Commitment Candidate as non-authorizing runtime evidence.

Commit-time interoperability contract

transition_id
actor
requested_action
target_system
input_hash
rail_configuration_reference
rail_configuration_hash
nemo_guardrails_version
model_references
prompt_hashes
retrieval_context_reference
tool_registry_reference
raw_rail_events
intervention_result
policy_reference
delegation_reference
execution_context
validity_window
source_timestamp

Failure classes

Failure class	Applies	Current boundary
Rail coverage gap	Yes	Unconfigured paths cannot be treated as governed.
Configuration drift	Yes	Rail, prompt, model, retrieval, or tool changes can alter behavior.
Semantic equivalence divergence	Yes	Rail pass or block is not StegVerse ALLOW or DENY.
Delegation leakage	Yes	Tool or retrieval access may exceed current delegation.
Replay divergence	Yes	External model, corpus, or integration changes can alter results.
Recoverability loss	Yes	Hidden intervention state can prevent reconstruction.
Fail-open runtime error	Yes	Exceptions and unknown flows must not authorize execution.

Machine-readable companions

manifest: docs/external-frameworks/nemo-guardrails.json
compatibility report: docs/external-frameworks/reports/nemo-guardrails.compatibility.json
canonical registry: docs/external-frameworks/index.json
canonical union: static/external-frameworks/canonical-union-inventory.v1.json

Maintenance and challenge path

Maintenance owner: StegVerse-Labs/admissibility-wiki, External Frameworks audit surface.

A challenge must identify nemo-guardrails, the disputed rail, configuration, integration, event, source, or claim and provide public evidence supporting correction. No evidence-strength increase is allowed without a complete replayable runtime trace.

Validation completion criteria

pinned package and rail configuration
pinned models, prompts, retrieval corpus, and tools
shared interaction vectors
predeclared expected boundaries
raw rail events and intervention traces
timestamps and runtime configuration
replay commands
independent rerun receipt
non-claim language preserved

Benchmark relevance

execution_boundary, preparation_boundary, commitment_boundary, unknown_trajectory_boundary

Non-claims

A rail pass is not transition admissibility. A rail block is not certification. Observed behavior depends on configuration, models, retrieval, integrations, and runtime context. This page does not claim live integration or general compatibility.

Next safe build target

Attach one pinned rail configuration with shared interaction vectors, model and retrieval identities, raw events, expected StegVerse boundary, replay command, and independent rerun receipt.

This page reflects a bounded admissibility packet. Publication does not create standing. The reflected claim inherits only the standing reconstructable from the referenced evidence, authority, and admissibility conditions.