Guardrails & Moderation

Replacing the LLM guardrail with a probabilistic judge

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WHAT IT DOES

The usual guardrail is a frontier LLM judging every agent action: slow, expensive, and capable of inventing a reason. This write-up swaps in JEV, which returns probabilities instead of prose.

The author reports 5–18× faster classification on Vercel's safety classifier and argues the output shape itself removes a class of failure, because there is no free text to hallucinate.

Reported by the creator on X; the benchmark was not rerun here.

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FROM THE ORIGINAL POST
Your agent's guardrail is a frontier LLM judging every action. TypeSafe's Jev — probabilities, not prose — ran Vercel's safety classifier 5–18x faster, and can't hallucinate by construction. — IdeaBosque · Original post
JEV ROLE
Guardrail Score #guardrail#security#benchmark#latency
WHERE IT SITS
HOW IT WORKS
INPUTan action or message to be screened
JEVGuardrail
OUTPUTa probability that it is unsafe
REPORTED RESULT
Latency5–18× faster than the LLM classifier

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