These API keys authenticate the guardrails CLI against Guardrails' hosted services.
You don't need a key — or an account — to install or use validators. Every validator is a public PyPI package:
To use a key with the CLI, run:
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Note: These API keys only work with
guardrails-ai>=0.4.2. To upgrade, please run:pip install guardrails-ai --upgrade