Yagami AI Context Firewall

Yagami

Open-source AI context firewall for governed model, retrieval, memory, and tool access.

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Try it in 60 seconds

The no-credential demo uses your configured Ollama model when it is installed; otherwise it opens a clearly labeled policy-only fallback. Choose one command:

uvx yagami demo
# or: python -m pip install yagami && yagami demo
# or: docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 ghcr.io/matthewtracy/yagami:latest yagami demo --host 0.0.0.0 --allow-remote

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000, or use docker compose -f compose.demo.yaml up from a clone. Demo mode blocks cloud routing while exercising the UI, policy, lineage, storage, and audit path. For local AI answers, install Ollama and run ollama pull llama3.2:3b-instruct-q4_K_M before starting the demo.

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Yagami is for developers and platform/security teams that need to control where agent context goes and which tools it may execute. For example: a coding agent can keep repository secrets on-device and require an identity-bound, one-time approval before a dangerous tool call.

Yagami sits between software and local models, cloud LLMs, retrieval systems, memory, and tools. Existing OpenAI SDK applications can adopt it by changing one base_url; Yagami then classifies context locally, applies versioned policy, and records content-free evidence for each decision.

Take the no-data security tour or run the flagship security demos for secret containment, poisoned retrieval, and identity-bound tool approval.

Protect an application

Initialize persistent user configuration, check the host, and start Yagami:

yagami init
yagami doctor
yagami serve

Install yagami[providers] when the Yagami process or the example client uses Anthropic/OpenAI-compatible SDKs. PDF ingestion and OS key storage are separate ingest and desktop extras; see configuration.

Then point an OpenAI client at the gateway:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1",
    api_key="your-yagami-project-key",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="yagami-auto",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this document."}],
    metadata={
        "purpose": "internal-documentation",
        "sensitivity": "none",
        "session_id": "example-session",
    },
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Supported caller sensitivity values are none, phi, phi_medical, and secret. A caller hint can make the policy stricter; it cannot lower a sensitivity detected by Yagami.

For production authentication, policy, and deployment settings, follow the deployment guide.

Why teams use Yagami

• Deterministic containment after classification. Once context is labeled as PHI or secret, default policy permits local backends only. Sensitive history and tool results inherit the same restriction.
• One governed data plane. Chat Completions, Responses, the browser chat, and MCP use the same policy, lineage, transformation, output-DLP, budget, and audit pipeline.
• Policy as code. Preview and replay decisions, run regression cases in CI, and promote deterministic Ed25519-signed policy bundles.
• Evidence without prompt logging. Policy passports, hash-chained audit records, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry spans carry labels, hashes, IDs, and counts rather than prompt or completion content.
• Model choice without policy duplication. Route to local engines, direct cloud providers, or an existing OpenAI-compatible gateway behind one enforcement point.
• Governed tools. Evaluate function tools and MCP calls before execution, require short-lived one-time approvals, and keep inbound credentials from being forwarded to downstream servers.

Core capabilities

Area	Included
Compatible APIs	OpenAI Chat Completions, core Responses API, Streamable HTTP MCP
Identity	Scoped project API keys and OIDC/JWT workload identity
Policy	Versioned YAML/JSON rules, restrictive merging, preview, replay, shadow mode, regression tests, signed bundles
Privacy	Local classification, caller sensitivity, context lineage, AES-GCM tokenization, rehydration, output DLP, optional Presidio
Tools	Function calling, governed built-in skills, stdio and remote MCP, one-time approvals
Operations	Spend/rate/concurrency/context limits, health checks, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, SIEM export, approval webhooks
Packaging	Python 3.11-3.14, PyPI, non-root container, Docker Compose, Helm, SBOMs, checksums, and build provenance

Models and integrations

Local generation works with Ollama, llama.cpp through the optional llama-cpp-python runtime, and Microsoft Foundry Local through its loopback OpenAI-compatible service. Direct cloud adapters cover Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Groq, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, and Stability AI image generation.

Yagami also works with LangChain/LangGraph, the Vercel AI SDK, Microsoft Presidio, Splunk HEC and generic SIEM webhooks, Slack and Teams approval notifications, and upstream gateways such as LiteLLM, Portkey, Kong, or Envoy. See the integration recipes.

How it compares

Yagami is not trying to replace every gateway, validator, or security scanner. Its focus is deterministic post-classification containment, governed tool execution, and content-free decision evidence. See the honest comparison guide for when LiteLLM, Guardrails AI, NeMo Guardrails, Presidio, LlamaFirewall, or a direct provider SDK is the better choice—and how to combine them with Yagami.

How enforcement works

flowchart LR
    A["Application or agent"] --> B["Authentication and project limits"]
    B --> C["Local classification and context lineage"]
    C --> D["Versioned policy"]
    D --> E{"Allowed destination or capability"}
    E --> F["Local or approved model"]
    E --> G["Retrieval, memory, or tool"]
    F --> H["Output inspection"]
    G --> H
    H --> I["Response"]
    D --> J["Content-free policy passport and audit chain"]
    H --> J

Policy is the final authority. Slash commands and explicit backend selection cannot override a sensitive-data restriction. Classifier failures fail local by default, and cloud routes can be blocked entirely or stopped at a daily spend cap.

Important limitations

Yagami is an enforcement component, not a compliance certification. Automated detection can miss sensitive data. Strict deployments should declare sensitivity at the caller, use a local-only policy, test organization-specific cases, encrypt storage at the host or volume layer, and review the threat model.

The project is alpha. Validate policy and failure behavior against your own requirements before production use.

Documentation

• Start here
• Gateway API
• Integrations
• Deployment
• Security and threat model

Contributing

Focused issues and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md, the security policy, and the code of conduct.

License

MIT - Copyright (c) 2026 Matthew Tracy and Yagami contributors.