AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems

What changed

In this work, we introduce AprielGuard, an 8B parameter safety–security safeguard model designed to detect: - 16 categories of safety risks, spanning toxicity, hate, sexual content, misinformation, self-harm, illegal activities, and more. - Wide range of adversarial attacks, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, chain-of-thought corruption, context hijacking, memory poisoning, and multi-agent exploit sequences. - Safety violations and adversarial attacks in agentic workflows, including tool calls and model reasoning traces.

Why it matters

A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.

How it compares

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