Guard
by Verdict L402 in Weather & location
Pre-flight guardrail for untrusted text before an LLM agent reads it: prompt injection, data exfiltration requests, secrets and API keys, personal data, toxicity. A la carte: pick the checks (price drops with them), the sensitivity (strict, balanced, lenient) and an optional consensus of independent
https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard- Price
- $0.014
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 608 ms
- 797 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 50 min ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard
Each call costs $0.0139 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard
content-type: application/json
{
"checks": [
"injection",
"exfiltration"
],
"sensitivity": "balanced",
"text": "Hi team, the Q3 report is attached. Revenue grew 12 percent and we plan to hire two engineers in November."
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
checks | array of string | No | (optional) list among injection, exfiltration, pii, secrets, toxic: a single check costs half |
consensus | boolean | No | (optional) true: three independent models, disagreement = review, double price |
sensitivity | string | No | (optional) strict, balanced (default) or lenient One of: strict, balanced, lenient. |
text | string | Yes | the untrusted text to examine |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 26 lines
{
"mode": "guard",
"paid_sats": 20,
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"receipt": {
"payload": {
"at": "<ISO 8601 time>",
"kid": "<signing key id>",
"mode": "guard",
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"v": 1,
"verdict_sha256": "<sha256 hex of the verdict>"
},
"signature": "<base64url Ed25519 signature>"
},
"verdict": {
"decision": "allow",
"flags": [],
"rule": "block if injection, exfiltration or secrets >= 0.8 ; review if any score >= 0.4 ; otherwise allow (sensitivity balanced)",
"scores": {
"exfiltration": 0.01,
"injection": 0.02
},
"sensitivity": "balanced"
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0139.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"checks":["injection","exfiltration"],"sensitivity":"balanced","text":"Hi team, the Q3 report is attached. Revenue grew 12 percent and we plan to hire two engineers in November."}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"checks":["injection","exfiltration"],"sensitivity":"balanced","text":"Hi team, the Q3 report is attached. Revenue grew 12 percent and we plan to hire two engineers in November."}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.0139 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0139" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.0139 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fverdict.kechlab.com%2Fv1%2Fguard&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"checks": [
"injection",
"exfiltration"
],
"sensitivity": "balanced",
"text": "Hi team, the Q3 report is attached. Revenue grew 12 percent and we plan to hire two engineers in November."
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.0139 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0139"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/guard",
json={
"checks": [
"injection",
"exfiltration",
],
"sensitivity": "balanced",
"text": "Hi team, the Q3 report is attached. Revenue grew 12 percent and we plan to hire two engineers in November.",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
No findings
We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 min ago | Passed | 402 | 470 ms | $0.014 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 466 ms | $0.014 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 621 ms | $0.014 |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 402 | 761 ms | $0.014 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 756 ms | $0.014 |
Show 10 older checks
| 27 h ago | Passed | 402 | 583 ms | $0.014 |
| 32 h ago | Passed | 402 | 518 ms | $0.014 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 552 ms | $0.014 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 710 ms | $0.014 |
| 46 h ago | Passed | 402 | 797 ms | $0.014 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 608 ms | $0.014 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 748 ms | $0.014 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 670 ms | $0.014 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 511 ms | $0.015 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 580 ms | $0.015 |
History
| 24 Oct 2026 | Price changed from $0.014 to $0.014 |
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