Reusable, minimal, dependency-light defensive layer for LLM ingestion (write-time) pipelines — sanitize, fence, tool-less quarantined transform, capability isolation, output-scan-before-persist, fail-secure.
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Kjell Tore Guttormsen 1e63643157 feat(grounding): SourceGroundingCheck protocol + pass-through default — the semantic-poisoning seam (TDD) [skip-docs]
Module 10 of the build order — interface only in the stdlib core (PLAN §67/§94,
BRIEF §7/§10). lexicon and entropy see surface signals; they are structurally
blind to semantic poisoning — a factually false or subtly biased claim, in clean
prose, carrying no suspicious token. Catching that needs grounding against a
source of truth (embedding classifier, retrieval check, LLM judge) — a model
call, and models never live in this core.

So this module ships exactly two things and no detector logic:
- SourceGroundingCheck: the text -> Report protocol a [judge] implementation
  must satisfy to plug in. runtime_checkable for a coarse callable-vs-not
  isinstance gate; a conforming impl may be a plain function or a stateful
  callable holding a retriever/client — the grounding source of truth is the
  impl's concern, never a seam parameter. Its findings flow through disposition
  like any other detector's, with zero grounding-specific plumbing.
- no_grounding_check (bound as DEFAULT_GROUNDING_CHECK): the pass-through
  default returning an empty Report. The honest scope note made structural —
  semantic poisoning is not solved at the text layer, and the core does not
  pretend to.

Design choice, tested: the default returns NO finding (not an INFO "unchecked"
marker). An INFO finding would flip every artifact to found and trip the
quarantine_default floor in disposition, quarantining every upload for a check
that never ran. The seam stays silent; the honesty lives in the contract.

8 new tests (pass-through empties, silence on semantic poison, protocol
conformance incl. a stateful judge stub, and a composition test proving a
plugged-in check's HIGH finding fails secure through disposition unchanged);
169 green total.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HyRCQMocjZ6SmSQ6JidJ2k
2026-07-04 22:44:41 +02:00
docs docs(plan): add end-to-end showcase pipeline test as the final deliverable 2026-07-04 17:23:17 +02:00
src/llm_ingestion_guard feat(grounding): SourceGroundingCheck protocol + pass-through default — the semantic-poisoning seam (TDD) [skip-docs] 2026-07-04 22:44:41 +02:00
tests feat(grounding): SourceGroundingCheck protocol + pass-through default — the semantic-poisoning seam (TDD) [skip-docs] 2026-07-04 22:44:41 +02:00
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README.md docs: design brief for reusable LLM ingestion-pipeline security library 2026-07-04 06:18:32 +02:00

llm-ingestion-pipeline-security

A reusable, minimal, dependency-light defensive layer for LLM ingestion pipelines — the write-time siblings of query-time chatbot guardrails.

Where mature guardrails (LLM Guard, NeMo Guardrails, Rebuff, Vigil, …) sit between a user and a model at query time, this library hardens the other shape: untrusted content flowing through an LLM enrichment/summarization/extraction step into a persisted, downstream-consumed artifact (RAG corpus, knowledge base, wiki). It packages the architectural contract — sanitize → fence → tool-less quarantined transform → per-stage capability isolation → scan output before commit → fail-secure — as composable, framework-agnostic code.

Status: brief / pre-implementation. Start with the design brief:

The contract is extracted from a working reference implementation (the claude-code-llm-wiki Stage B enrichment pipeline).