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What changed?

E2E parity test suite verifying that the middleware API (create_agent(middleware=[...])) and the decorator API (@pii_detection_guardrail, @prompt_injection_guardrail, @deterministic_guardrail) produce identical runtime behaviour for every guardrail scenario.

New files:

  • tests/cli/mocks/parity_agent_decorator.py — joke agent with 8 guardrails configured via decorators
  • tests/cli/mocks/parity_agent_middleware.py — same agent and same 8 guardrails configured via middleware
  • tests/cli/test_guardrails_in_langgraph.py — 6 scenarios × 2 flavors = 12 parametrized test runs

How has this been tested?

uv run pytest tests/cli/test_guardrails_in_langgraph.py — 12/12 pass.

Tests mock UiPathChatOpenAI.ainvoke and GuardrailsService.evaluate_guardrail; no real API calls. Blocking tests assert all 5 fields of exc.__cause__.error_info (code, title, detail, category, status).

Scenarios covered (× 2 flavors each):

# Test What is verified
1 test_happy_path All guardrails configured, none trigger — agent completes, output file produced
2 test_agent_pii_block AGENT-scope PII (PERSON) → BlockActionAgentRuntimeError
3 test_llm_prompt_injection_block LLM-scope prompt injection → BlockAction before LLM is ever called (llm_call_count == 0)
4 test_tool_pii_block TOOL-scope PII (PERSON) in tool args → BlockAction before tool runs
5 test_tool_deterministic_word_filter Deterministic PRE filter replaces "donkey" → agent completes, ToolMessage has no "donkey"
6 test_tool_deterministic_length_block Deterministic PRE block for joke > 1000 chars → AgentRuntimeError

Are there any breaking changes?

  • None
  • Under Feature Flag
  • DB migrations required
  • API removals / renamed symbols

apetraru-uipath and others added 2 commits March 26, 2026 11:18
Add stage parameter to pii_detection_guardrail and prompt_injection_guardrail
decorators, matching the flexibility already available in deterministic_guardrail.
pii_detection_guardrail defaults to PRE_AND_POST; prompt_injection_guardrail
defaults to PRE and raises pydantic.ValidationError for POST or PRE_AND_POST
(prompt injection is input-only).

Fix _apply_llm_input_guardrail and _apply_guardrail_to_message_list: previously
concatenated the full conversation history and tried to replace the joined text
inside a single message, which silently failed in any multi-turn conversation.
Now evaluates only the last HumanMessage (PRE/input) or last AIMessage
(POST/output) — semantically correct and replacement works reliably.

Replace _extract_text_from_messages with focused helpers: _get_last_human_message,
_get_last_ai_message, _extract_message_text, _apply_message_text_modification.
Add target_type parameter to _apply_guardrail_to_message_list so input and output
graph-scope wrappers target the correct message type.

PII decorator, joke-agent-decorator sample, BlockAction uses AgentRuntimeError.

Fix _wrap_llm_with_guardrail: factory functions returning BaseChatModel were not
wrapped (fell through StateGraph/dict branches). Also fix Pydantic setattr block
on UiPathChat by using __class__ swap to a dynamic subclass instead of
monkey-patching invoke/ainvoke.

Fix BlockAction swallowed by bare except: split try/except so only guardrail API
errors are suppressed; action exceptions (AgentRuntimeError) now propagate.

Fix CompiledStateGraph not recognised: add _wrap_compiled_graph_with_guardrail
and handle CompiledStateGraph return type from factory functions.

Fix mypy errors in decorators.py: typed list[BaseMessage], CompiledStateGraph
type params, type: ignore[valid-type, misc] for dynamic subclass, and
type: ignore[method-assign] for CompiledStateGraph method patching.

Add prompt_injection_guardrail decorator: _create_prompt_injection_guardrail,
_apply_prompt_injection_guardrail, public prompt_injection_guardrail function;
exported from guardrails/__init__.py; stacked on create_llm() in
joke-agent-decorator/graph.py with BlockAction to block on detection.

Reformat decorators.py for consistency.

Middleware cleanup: delete monolithic middleware.py (duplicate of middlewares/
split files); update guardrails/__init__.py to import from .middlewares; update
joke-agent/graph.py to use new split-file API (tool_names -> tools, optional
scopes on PromptInjection, unconditional POST filter comment).

Revert renames: restore LoggingSeverityLevel as proper int Enum (ERROR, INFO,
WARNING, DEBUG) in actions.py; remove PromptInjectionValidatorType from enums.py;
fix pii_detection.py docstring to use Entity+PIIDetectionEntity; export
LoggingSeverityLevel from guardrails/__init__.py; update both samples to use
LoggingSeverityLevel instead of AgentGuardrailSeverityLevel.

Manual refinements: updates to actions.py, decorators.py, enums.py, models.py,
middlewares/pii_detection.py, guardrails/__init__.py, and joke-agent/graph.py.

Remove joke-agent/.agent/REQUIRED_STRUCTURE.md; further manual edits to
joke-agent/graph.py.

Refactor decorators.py into decorators/ package (pii.py, prompt_injection.py,
deterministic.py, _base.py) with tool-level guardrail support:
- Split monolithic decorators.py into decorators/ subpackage
- Add _wrap_tool_with_guardrail using __class__ swap (Pydantic-safe)
- Add deterministic_guardrail decorator (TOOL scope, local rules, no API call)
- Extend pii_guardrail to support BaseTool and optional tools= kwarg
- Extend _detect_scope to return GuardrailScope.TOOL for BaseTool instances
- Export deterministic_guardrail and RuleFunction from guardrails/__init__.py
- Update joke-agent-decorator/graph.py to demonstrate all three decorator types
  on analyze_joke_syntax tool (3x @deterministic_guardrail + @pii_guardrail)
- Add local CustomFilterAction to joke-agent-decorator sample

Tool guardrail fixes and sample updates:
- _base.py: unwrap LangGraph tool-call envelope (args) for rule evaluation;
  rewrap modified args so super().invoke() receives valid input; handle
  ToolMessage/Command in _extract_output for POST-stage deterministic rules.
- joke-agent-decorator: Agent PII uses LogAction(WARNING) with custom message;
  README aligned with current guardrails and verification scenarios.

Deps and lockfiles: pyproject.toml updates (root and joke-agent-decorator);
remove samples/joke-agent-decorator/uv.lock and samples/joke-agent/uv.lock;
uv.lock at repo root updated.

Refactor _base.py: remove unnecessary casts in _evaluate_rules; catch only
ValueError (JSONDecodeError is subclass); extract _apply_guardrail_to_message_list,
_apply_guardrail_to_input_messages, _apply_guardrail_to_output_messages and use
them in _wrap_stategraph_with_guardrail, _wrap_compiled_graph_with_guardrail,
and _wrap_function_with_guardrail to reduce cognitive complexity.

Made-with: Cursor

Enable enabled_for_evals override across decorators and middlewares for PII,
prompt injection, and deterministic guardrails (default true, user-overridable),
plus docs/sample updates for the new parameter.

Fix mypy errors in pii_detection.py and prompt_injection.py: rebind guardrail
to a typed non-optional local variable so mypy can narrow the type inside
nested class closures.

Made-with: Cursor

Fix _wrap_compiled_graph_with_guardrail: output guardrail (POST stage) was never
applied — invoke/ainvoke discarded the graph output without running
_apply_guardrail_to_output_messages. Now captures the output and evaluates it,
matching the behaviour of _wrap_stategraph_with_guardrail.

Update pyproject.toml and uv.lock.

Fix double POST guardrail application on StructuredTool: remove ainvoke override
from _GuardedTool in deterministic.py and pii_detection.py. StructuredTool.ainvoke
delegates to self.invoke via run_in_executor, so the guardrail chain in invoke
already runs once; the ainvoke override caused a second POST application, producing
"words++++" instead of "words++".

Fix LogAction double-logging: replace print()+logger.log() with a single
logger.log() call using the guardrail name as context prefix.

Fix _evaluate_rules violation message: include guardrail name instead of
positional index so errors read "Rule <name> detected violation" rather than
"Rule 1 detected violation". Pass guardrail_name through _apply_pre/_apply_post
call sites in deterministic.py.

Fix AgentRuntimeError swallowed in guardrail middleware/decorator except handlers:
add explicit except AgentRuntimeError: raise before the generic except Exception
in pii_detection decorator (_apply_pre, _apply_post), pii_detection middleware
(_wrap_tool_call_func, _check_messages), and prompt_injection middleware
(_check_messages) so BlockAction errors propagate instead of being silently logged.
…entation [AL-288] (#732)

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
@apetraru-uipath apetraru-uipath changed the title chore: add E2E guardrails parity tests and decorator guardrail implementation [AL-288] chore: add E2E guardrails parity tests [AL-288] Mar 26, 2026
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