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Greptile SummaryThe PR corrects documentation for direct
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| Filename | Overview |
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| docs/integration/tools-integration.mdx | Corrects both direct-generation tool loops to use the nested function-call schema and replaces unsafe expression evaluation. |
| docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx | Accurately distinguishes propagated exceptions from ordinary internal-error responses and explicitly rejects content sentinels. |
| docs/integration/langchain/langgraph-integration.mdx | Clarifies the separate failure boundaries of RunnableRails and ToolNode while removing the previously unsafe content check. |
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe documentation expands guarded LangGraph tool-calling flows, RunnableRails prompt and rejection behavior, failure handling, streaming limitations, calculator safety, and LangChain tool-call schemas. ChangesLangChain integration documentation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The updated integration documentation still contains security-relevant and behavioral inaccuracies that could lead users to skip validation or mishandle supported APIs and tool-call fields. These issues should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6✅ Passed checks (6 passed)
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/langgraph-integration.mdx`:
- Line 281: Update the error descriptions in
docs/integration/langchain/langgraph-integration.mdx lines 281-281 and
docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx lines 250-252: remove bound-tool
failures from the RunnableRails error scope, and document tool failures
separately under the ToolNode flow, noting that ToolNode requires independent
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- Line 505: The LangGraph streaming limitation statement should be scoped to the
documented runnable_with_guardrails.invoke(state) integration path, rather than
claiming all LangGraph nodes cannot emit intermediate events. Update the
surrounding documentation to state that RunnableRails.invoke calls
LLMRails.generate and returns one formatted result, while RunnableRails.astream
only yields chunks to its direct caller and does not write LangGraph events;
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx`:
- Line 314: Update the SimpleEval configuration in the calculator setup to
prevent unbounded exponentiation through the mapped pow function: remove pow
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In `@docs/integration/tools-integration.mdx`:
- Line 55: Update the ToolCall contract documentation to mark name and args as
required, id as nullable (str or None), and type as optional, reflecting
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220-221: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse the nested keys for direct
LLMRails.generate()results.The returned
tool_callsusefunction.nameandfunction.arguments, so the current flat lookups can raiseKeyErrorbefore tool invocation. Usetool_call["function"]["name"]andtool_call["function"]["arguments"].🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/integration/tools-integration.mdx`:
- Line 55: Update the documentation sentence to use the exact product name “the
NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails library” instead of “The NeMo Guardrails library,”
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In `@docs/integration/tools-integration.mdx`:
- Around line 220-221: Update the tool-call parsing in the direct
LLMRails.generate() integration example to read the nested function.name and
function.arguments fields instead of the flat name and args keys, while
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx`:
- Line 252: Update the RunnableRails failure documentation to remove the
reference to binding tools directly on the LLM as an error example, since
llm.bind_tools(...) is supported; replace it with a genuinely invalid
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- Line 303: Update the optional LangChain setup documentation near the
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| `RunnableRails.invoke()`/`ainvoke()` wrap the underlying rails call in a `try`/`except`, but whether a failure reaches that `except` block depends on where the failure happens: | ||
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| - **Failures that `RunnableRails` itself surfaces** raise a `ValueError`, with the original exception chained through `from e`. This covers LLM provider failures (the main model or a safety-check model call fails, for example a timeout or an API error), unsupported input types, and any other error that escapes the underlying rails call. A few recognized cases raise a more specific message, such as binding tools directly on the LLM. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the tool-binding example from the failure list.
RunnableRails explicitly recognizes llm.bind_tools(...) as a supported LLM binding. The current wording makes this supported path sound like an error condition. Describe a concrete invalid configuration instead, or omit the example.
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- A few recognized cases raise a more specific message, such as binding tools directly on the LLM.
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| - **Failures that `RunnableRails` itself surfaces** raise a `ValueError`, with the original exception chained through `from e`. This covers LLM provider failures (the main model or a safety-check model call fails, for example a timeout or an API error), unsupported input types, and any other error that escapes the underlying rails call. A few recognized cases raise a more specific message, such as binding tools directly on the LLM. | |
| - **Failures that `RunnableRails` itself surfaces** raise a `ValueError`, with the original exception chained through `from e`. This covers LLM provider failures (the main model or a safety-check model call fails, for example a timeout or an API error), unsupported input types, and any other error that escapes the underlying rails call. Some recognized configuration errors may raise a more specific message. |
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx` at line 252, Update the
RunnableRails failure documentation to remove the reference to binding tools
directly on the LLM as an error example, since llm.bind_tools(...) is supported;
replace it with a genuinely invalid configuration example or omit the example
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| Avoid Python's built-in `eval()` for evaluating LLM-provided expressions, even with a `__builtins__` whitelist. Sandbox-escape techniques (for example, attribute traversal through `__class__`) can bypass a manually constructed whitelist. Use a restricted expression evaluator such as [`simpleeval`](https://github.com/danthedeckie/simpleeval) instead. `simpleeval` is already an NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails library dependency, so no extra install is required. |
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Document the optional LangChain setup.
The examples import langchain_openai.ChatOpenAI, but this page does not state that langchain-openai is required or that OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Add these steps or link to setup documentation that includes both requirements.
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/runnable-rails.mdx` at line 303, Update the
optional LangChain setup documentation near the langchain_openai.ChatOpenAI
examples to state that the langchain-openai package must be installed and
OPENAI_API_KEY must be configured, or link to setup documentation containing
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/langgraph-integration.mdx`:
- Line 516: Remove the repository-status assertion stating that no tracking
issue exists from the LangGraph token streaming documentation, leaving the
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- Line 193: Update the LangGraph integration documentation around chatbot
guardrails to remove the claim that ToolNode results pass through guardrail
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| `tools_condition` inspects the `AIMessage` that `chatbot` returns. Because guardrails wrap the model call inside `chatbot`, both the decision to call a tool and the tool's result pass through guardrail checks on every trip through the `chatbot` node, not just on the final answer. |
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LLM Security (CWE-20): Improper Input Validation
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Do not state that ToolNode results pass through guardrail checks.
Guardrails apply to each model call. Validate ToolNode results before adding them to the message history because tool messages bypass input rails.
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In `@docs/integration/langchain/langgraph-integration.mdx` at line 193, Update the
LangGraph integration documentation around chatbot guardrails to remove the
claim that ToolNode results pass through guardrail checks. State that guardrails
apply to each model call, and instruct readers to validate ToolNode results
before adding them to message history because tool messages bypass input rails.
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| The `chatbot` node in the examples above calls `runnable_with_guardrails.invoke(state)`. `RunnableRails.invoke()` calls `LLMRails.generate()`, which makes a single blocking call and returns one fully formatted result; no incremental LLM callback events fire during it for LangGraph's `messages` mode to observe. `RunnableRails.astream()` does stream token-by-token, but it yields chunks directly to whatever calls it; it does not forward those chunks into LangGraph's callback-based streaming machinery. Calling `astream()` from inside a node, instead of `invoke()`, would still not surface as `messages`-mode events without additional wiring. | ||
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| No tracking issue currently exists in the [`NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails`](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails) repository for LangGraph token streaming support. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the repository-status assertion.
No tracking issue currently exists gives a dynamic repository-wide result without a defined scope. The repository has open streaming-related issues, so readers can interpret this statement as false. Remove it, or define the exact excluded scope and link the tracking item. (github.com)
As per coding guidelines, “Do not commit secrets, credentials, sensitive provider data, fabricated results, approvals, or citations.”
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Our VDR process found several issues in our docs in v0.17. This PR addresses the remaining ones which weren't already fixed.
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