> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://openrouter.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get a guardrail

> Get a single guardrail by ID. [Management key](/docs/guides/overview/auth/management-api-keys) required.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi/openapi.yaml get /guardrails/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  contact:
    email: support@openrouter.ai
    name: OpenRouter Support
    url: https://openrouter.ai/docs
  description: OpenAI-compatible API with additional OpenRouter features
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
  title: OpenRouter API
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - description: Production server
    url: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
    x-speakeasy-server-id: production
security:
  - apiKey: []
tags:
  - description: API key management endpoints
    name: API Keys
  - description: Analytics and usage endpoints
    name: Analytics
  - description: Anthropic Messages endpoints
    name: Anthropic Messages
  - description: BYOK endpoints
    name: BYOK
  - description: >-
      Submit, list, poll, and delete asynchronous batches of inference requests.
      See https://openrouter.ai/docs/batch-quickstart.
    name: Batch
  - description: Benchmarks endpoints
    name: Benchmarks
  - description: Chat completion endpoints
    name: Chat
  - description: Task classification market-share endpoints
    name: Classifications
  - description: Containers endpoints
    name: Containers
  - description: Credit management endpoints
    name: Credits
  - description: >-
      Public OpenRouter usage datasets. Data returned by these endpoints is
      licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):
      reuse and republish it, including commercially, with attribution to
      OpenRouter.
    name: Datasets
  - description: Text embedding endpoints
    name: Embeddings
  - description: Endpoint information
    name: Endpoints
  - description: External Users endpoints
    name: External Users
  - description: Files endpoints
    name: Files
  - description: Generation history endpoints
    name: Generations
  - description: Guardrails endpoints
    name: Guardrails
  - description: Images endpoints
    name: Images
  - description: Model information endpoints
    name: Models
  - description: OAuth authentication endpoints
    name: OAuth
  - description: Observability endpoints
    name: Observability
  - description: Organization endpoints
    name: Organization
  - description: Presets endpoints
    name: Presets
  - description: Private Endpoints endpoints
    name: Private Endpoints
  - description: Private Providers endpoints
    name: Private Providers
  - description: Provider information endpoints
    name: Providers
  - description: Rerank endpoints
    name: Rerank
  - description: OpenAI-compatible Responses API endpoints
    name: Responses
  - description: >-
      Management endpoints for SCIM group-to-workspace mappings, authenticated
      with a management key. These are not the SCIM 2.0 connector endpoints for
      your identity provider. In your identity provider, enter the SCIM endpoint
      URL shown when you enable provisioning under Settings > Members > SCIM
      Mappings. See
      https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/scim-mappings#set-up-provisioning.
    name: SCIM
  - description: Speech-to-text endpoints
    name: STT
    x-displayName: Transcriptions
  - description: >-
      System One endpoints for models such as Jev, compatible with the TypeSafe
      SDKs. See https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/community/typesafe-sdk.
    name: SystemOne
    x-displayName: System One
  - description: Text-to-speech endpoints
    name: TTS
    x-displayName: Speech
  - description: >-
      The catalog of server tools OpenRouter runs on behalf of a model: accepted
      `tools[].type` spellings per API format, engines and pricing, and which
      endpoints run each tool natively. See
      https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/server-tools.
    name: Tools
  - description: >-
      Store host-bound secrets for a workspace or for one intern. Scope is
      selected by the API key. Responses return metadata only, never secret
      values. See https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/ori/vault.
    name: Vault
  - description: Video Generation endpoints
    name: Video Generation
  - description: Workspaces endpoints
    name: Workspaces
  - description: Alpha feature endpoints for Decisions requests
    name: alpha.decisions
  - description: Alpha feature endpoints for Extractions requests
    name: alpha.extractions
externalDocs:
  description: OpenRouter Documentation
  url: https://openrouter.ai/docs
paths:
  /guardrails/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Guardrails
      summary: Get a guardrail
      description: >-
        Get a single guardrail by ID. [Management
        key](/docs/guides/overview/auth/management-api-keys) required.
      operationId: getGuardrail
      parameters:
        - description: The unique identifier of the guardrail to retrieve
          in: path
          name: id
          required: true
          schema:
            description: The unique identifier of the guardrail to retrieve
            example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
            format: uuid
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                data:
                  allowed_models: null
                  allowed_providers:
                    - openai
                    - anthropic
                    - google
                  created_at: '2025-08-24T10:30:00Z'
                  description: Guardrail for production environment
                  enforce_zdr: false
                  id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
                  ignored_models: null
                  ignored_providers: null
                  include_byok_in_budgets: false
                  limit_usd: 100
                  name: Production Guardrail
                  reset_interval: monthly
                  updated_at: '2025-08-24T15:45:00Z'
                  workspace_id: 0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetGuardrailResponse'
          description: Guardrail details
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                error:
                  code: 401
                  message: Missing Authentication header
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedResponse'
          description: Unauthorized - Authentication required or invalid credentials
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                error:
                  code: 403
                  message: Only management keys can perform this operation
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ForbiddenResponse'
          description: Forbidden - Authentication successful but insufficient permissions
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                error:
                  code: 404
                  message: Resource not found
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundResponse'
          description: >-
            Guardrail not found, or the workspace default guardrail has not been
            configured yet.
        '500':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                error:
                  code: 500
                  message: Internal Server Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServerResponse'
          description: Internal Server Error - Unexpected server error
components:
  schemas:
    GetGuardrailResponse:
      example:
        data:
          allowed_models: null
          allowed_providers:
            - openai
            - anthropic
            - google
          content_filter_builtins:
            - action: redact
              label: '[EMAIL]'
              slug: email
          content_filters: null
          created_at: '2025-08-24T10:30:00Z'
          description: Guardrail for production environment
          enable_free_model_publication: false
          enable_free_model_training: true
          enable_paid_model_training: true
          enforce_zdr: null
          enforce_zdr_anthropic: true
          enforce_zdr_google: false
          enforce_zdr_openai: true
          enforce_zdr_other: false
          enforce_zdr_xai: false
          id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
          ignored_models: null
          ignored_providers: null
          include_byok_in_budgets: false
          limit_usd: 100
          name: Production Guardrail
          reset_interval: monthly
          updated_at: '2025-08-24T15:45:00Z'
          workspace_id: 0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11
      properties:
        data:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Guardrail'
            - description: The guardrail
      required:
        - data
      type: object
    UnauthorizedResponse:
      description: Unauthorized - Authentication required or invalid credentials
      example:
        error:
          code: 401
          message: Missing Authentication header
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedResponseErrorData'
        openrouter_metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
        user_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
      required:
        - error
      type: object
    ForbiddenResponse:
      description: Forbidden - Authentication successful but insufficient permissions
      example:
        error:
          code: 403
          message: Only management keys can perform this operation
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ForbiddenResponseErrorData'
        openrouter_metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
        user_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
      required:
        - error
      type: object
    NotFoundResponse:
      description: Not Found - Resource does not exist
      example:
        error:
          code: 404
          message: Resource not found
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundResponseErrorData'
        openrouter_metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
        user_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
      required:
        - error
      type: object
    InternalServerResponse:
      description: Internal Server Error - Unexpected server error
      example:
        error:
          code: 500
          message: Internal Server Error
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServerResponseErrorData'
        openrouter_metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
        user_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
      required:
        - error
      type: object
    Guardrail:
      example:
        allowed_data_regions: null
        allowed_models: null
        allowed_providers:
          - openai
          - anthropic
          - google
        content_filter_builtins:
          - action: redact
            label: '[EMAIL]'
            slug: email
        content_filters: null
        created_at: '2025-08-24T10:30:00Z'
        description: Guardrail for production environment
        enable_free_model_publication: false
        enable_free_model_training: true
        enable_paid_model_training: true
        enforce_zdr: null
        enforce_zdr_anthropic: true
        enforce_zdr_google: false
        enforce_zdr_openai: true
        enforce_zdr_other: false
        enforce_zdr_xai: false
        id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
        ignored_models: null
        ignored_providers: null
        include_byok_in_budgets: false
        limit_usd: 100
        name: Production Guardrail
        reset_interval: monthly
        updated_at: '2025-08-24T15:45:00Z'
        workspace_id: 0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11
      properties:
        allow_safety_retention_google:
          description: >-
            Whether ZDR-only requests to google/* models may also use Safety
            Retention endpoints, which may retain prompts and responses from any
            request, only to prevent abuse, and do not use them for training.
            false allows only ZDR endpoints. A guardrail can only be more
            restrictive than the account setting. Inherits the account setting
            when not provided.
          example: true
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        allow_safety_retention_other:
          description: >-
            Whether ZDR-only requests to models outside the named providers (for
            example open-weight models on Vertex) may also use Safety Retention
            endpoints, which may retain prompts and responses from any request,
            only to prevent abuse, and do not use them for training. false
            allows only ZDR endpoints. A guardrail can only be more restrictive
            than the account setting. Inherits the account setting when not
            provided.
          example: true
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        allowed_data_regions:
          description: >-
            Data regions through which requests governed by this guardrail must
            arrive. `global` is https://openrouter.ai, `europe` is
            https://eu.openrouter.ai, and `us` is https://us.openrouter.ai.
            Requests arriving through any other region are rejected. `null`
            leaves the ingress region unrestricted. When several guardrails
            apply (workspace default, member, API key), the effective regions
            are the intersection of every non-null value.
          example:
            - europe
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailDataRegion'
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        allowed_models:
          description: Array of model canonical_slugs (immutable identifiers)
          example:
            - openai/gpt-5.2-20251211
            - anthropic/claude-4.5-opus-20251124
            - deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528:free
          items:
            type: string
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        allowed_providers:
          description: List of allowed provider IDs
          example:
            - openai
            - anthropic
            - google
          items:
            type: string
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        content_filter_builtins:
          description: >-
            Builtin content filters applied to requests. Includes PII detectors
            and the regex-based prompt injection detector.
          example:
            - action: redact
              label: '[EMAIL]'
              slug: email
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentFilterBuiltinEntry'
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        content_filters:
          description: Custom regex content filters applied to request messages
          example:
            - action: redact
              label: '[API_KEY]'
              pattern: \b(sk-[a-zA-Z0-9]{48})\b
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentFilterEntry'
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        created_at:
          description: ISO 8601 timestamp of when the guardrail was created
          example: '2025-08-24T10:30:00Z'
          type: string
        description:
          description: Description of the guardrail
          example: Guardrail for production environment
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        enable_free_model_publication:
          description: Whether this guardrail allows free endpoints that publish prompts.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enable_free_model_training:
          description: >-
            Whether this guardrail allows free endpoints that train on request
            data.
          example: true
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enable_paid_model_training:
          description: >-
            Whether this guardrail allows paid endpoints that train on request
            data.
          example: true
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_first_party_harness_models:
          description: >-
            Whether coding harnesses list only their vendor's own models: Codex
            lists OpenAI models and Claude Code and Claude Desktop list
            Anthropic models. Affects only the model list those harnesses
            request from GET /models; a model the client names directly is still
            routed. Any true across the workspace default, member, and API key
            guardrails applies.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr:
          deprecated: true
          description: >-
            Deprecated. Use enforce_zdr_anthropic, enforce_zdr_openai,
            enforce_zdr_google, enforce_zdr_xai, and enforce_zdr_other instead.
            When provided, its value is copied into any of those per-provider
            fields that are not explicitly specified on the request.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr_anthropic:
          description: >-
            Whether to enforce zero data retention for Anthropic models. Falls
            back to enforce_zdr when not provided.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr_google:
          description: >-
            Whether to enforce zero data retention for Google models. Falls back
            to enforce_zdr when not provided.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr_openai:
          description: >-
            Whether to enforce zero data retention for OpenAI models. Falls back
            to enforce_zdr when not provided.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr_other:
          description: >-
            Whether to enforce zero data retention for models that are not from
            Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI. Falls back to enforce_zdr when
            not provided.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        enforce_zdr_xai:
          description: >-
            Whether to enforce zero data retention for xAI models. Falls back to
            enforce_zdr when not provided.
          example: false
          type:
            - boolean
            - 'null'
        id:
          description: Unique identifier for the guardrail
          example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
          format: uuid
          type: string
        ignored_models:
          description: Array of model canonical_slugs to exclude from routing
          example:
            - openai/gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
          items:
            type: string
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        ignored_providers:
          description: List of provider IDs to exclude from routing
          example:
            - azure
          items:
            type: string
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        include_byok_in_budgets:
          description: >-
            Whether BYOK (bring-your-own-key) inference spend counts toward this
            guardrail's limit_usd, in addition to OpenRouter credit spend.
          example: false
          type: boolean
        limit_usd:
          description: Spending limit in USD
          example: 100
          format: double
          type:
            - number
            - 'null'
        name:
          description: Name of the guardrail
          example: Production Guardrail
          type: string
        reset_interval:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailInterval'
        updated_at:
          description: ISO 8601 timestamp of when the guardrail was last updated
          example: '2025-08-24T15:45:00Z'
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        workspace_id:
          description: >-
            The workspace this guardrail belongs to, or `null` for an unscoped
            legacy guardrail predating workspaces. Workspace membership
            organizes the guardrail; it does not apply the guardrail to the
            workspace's traffic. A `null` value does not mean the default
            workspace, and does not apply the guardrail across every workspace.
          example: 0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - include_byok_in_budgets
        - created_at
        - workspace_id
      type: object
    UnauthorizedResponseErrorData:
      description: Error data for UnauthorizedResponse
      example:
        code: 401
        message: Missing Authentication header
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
      required:
        - code
        - message
      type: object
    ForbiddenResponseErrorData:
      description: Error data for ForbiddenResponse
      example:
        code: 403
        message: Only management keys can perform this operation
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
      required:
        - code
        - message
      type: object
    NotFoundResponseErrorData:
      description: Error data for NotFoundResponse
      example:
        code: 404
        message: Resource not found
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
      required:
        - code
        - message
      type: object
    InternalServerResponseErrorData:
      description: Error data for InternalServerResponse
      example:
        code: 500
        message: Internal Server Error
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: {}
          type:
            - object
            - 'null'
      required:
        - code
        - message
      type: object
    GuardrailDataRegion:
      description: >-
        An OpenRouter data region: `global` (https://openrouter.ai), `europe`
        (https://eu.openrouter.ai), or `us` (https://us.openrouter.ai)
      enum:
        - global
        - europe
        - us
      example: europe
      type: string
    ContentFilterBuiltinEntry:
      description: >-
        A builtin content filter entry. Builtin filters include PII detectors,
        API-key and secret detectors, and the regex-based prompt injection
        detector.
      example:
        action: redact
        label: '[EMAIL]'
        slug: email
      properties:
        action:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentFilterBuiltinAction'
        label:
          description: >-
            Read-only, system-assigned redaction placeholder derived from the
            slug (e.g. "[EMAIL]", "[PHONE]"). Not settable by the caller.
          example: '[EMAIL]'
          maxLength: 100
          type: string
        scan_scope:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptInjectionScanScope'
        slug:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentFilterBuiltinSlug'
      required:
        - slug
        - action
      type: object
    ContentFilterEntry:
      description: >-
        A custom regex content filter that scans request messages for matching
        patterns.
      example:
        action: redact
        label: '[API_KEY]'
        pattern: \b(sk-[a-zA-Z0-9]{48})\b
      properties:
        action:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentFilterAction'
        label:
          description: Optional label used in redaction placeholders or error messages
          example: '[API_KEY]'
          maxLength: 100
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        pattern:
          description: A regex pattern to match against request content
          example: \b(sk-[a-zA-Z0-9]{48})\b
          minLength: 1
          type: string
      required:
        - pattern
        - action
      type: object
    GuardrailInterval:
      description: Interval at which the limit resets (daily, weekly, monthly)
      enum:
        - daily
        - weekly
        - monthly
        - null
      example: monthly
      type:
        - string
        - 'null'
    ContentFilterBuiltinAction:
      description: Action taken when the builtin filter triggers
      enum:
        - redact
        - block
        - flag
      example: block
      type: string
    PromptInjectionScanScope:
      description: >-
        Which message roles to scan for prompt injection. Only applies to the
        regex-prompt-injection builtin. Defaults to all_messages.
      enum:
        - user_only
        - all_messages
      example: user_only
      type: string
    ContentFilterBuiltinSlug:
      description: The builtin filter identifier
      enum:
        - email
        - phone
        - ssn
        - credit-card
        - ip-address
        - secrets
        - person-name
        - address
        - regex-prompt-injection
      example: regex-prompt-injection
      type: string
    ContentFilterAction:
      description: Action taken when the pattern matches
      enum:
        - redact
        - block
        - flag
      example: block
      type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      description: API key as bearer token in Authorization header
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

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