Protegrity announced the free Developer Edition, a lightweight, containerized toolkit aimed at helping developers, data scientists, and security practitioners embed data protection and GenAI guardrails into Python workflows without standing up enterprise infrastructure. The release emphasizes privacy built in rather than bolted on, with an updated repository link provided in the corrected announcement.
What’s Included
- Discovery: Identify sensitive data in text, documents, and logs using ML classifiers and patterns.
- Find & Protect APIs: REST and Python interfaces to tokenize, mask, and protect data across prompts, training sets, RAG, and outputs.
- Semantic Guardrails 1.0: Modular, real-time inspection of inputs, plans, tool calls, and responses to mitigate prompt injection, PII leakage, and off-topic misuse.
Who It’s For
Developers, ML/MLOps engineers, data and security architects, and platform teams who need to prototype privacy controls quickly, validate policies in real workflows, and scale to the commercial platform without rewrites.
Key Benefits
- Frictionless evaluation: No license or heavy infrastructure; runs locally via containers.
- Developer autonomy: Build, test, and validate protections in minutes.
- Real-world protection: Policy-aligned guardrails for prompts, training data, RAG retrieval, and outputs.
- Seamless scalability: The same Find & Protect APIs carry forward to production deployments.
- Community support: Documentation, examples, and discussion on GitHub and PyPI.
Quotes from the release:
“We didn’t build this for the boardroom, we built it for the creators… privacy cannot be bolted on, it must be built in.” — Michael Howard, CEO
“Our goal is to make data protection accessible, actionable, and aligned with how modern teams build.” — Tui Leauanae, Head of Developer Relations
Get Started
- Explore the Developer Edition on GitHub
- Install the Python module from PyPI and run locally with Docker.
- Try Semantic Guardrails 1.0 in chatbots, RAG pipelines, and agentic tools.
Note: This page summarizes information from a Protegrity press release for convenience. For the complete announcement, please refer to the official source below.