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# Glider

A prompt based guardrail from Patronus AI that utilizes pass criteria and a rubric to judge text.

For more information, see the model card:[GLIDER](https://huggingface.co/PatronusAI/glider). It outputs its reasoning, highlights for what determined the score, and an integer score.

Args: pass\_criteria: A question or description of what you are validating. rubric: A scoring rubric, describing to the model how to score the provided data. pass\_threshold: The rubric score at which the text counts as passing. `valid` is `rubric_score >= pass_threshold` (or `<=` when `higher_is_better` is False). model\_id: HuggingFace path to model. provider: Reserved for future extensibility. Currently unused. higher\_is\_better: Whether higher rubric scores mean better/passing text. Set to False for rubrics where higher scores mean worse text. score\_range: Optional `(min, max)` bounds of the rubric scale. GLIDER's rubric is free text, so the bounds can't be inferred; supply them to get a normalized canonical risk in `score`. When omitted, `score` is None and the raw rubric value is still available in `extra["rubric_score"]`.

Raise: ValueError: Can only use model path to GLIDER from HuggingFace.

## Supported Models

* `PatronusAI/glider`

## Constructor

| Parameter          | Type                                                 | Required | Default |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------- |
| `pass_criteria`    | `str`                                                | Yes      | —       |
| `rubric`           | `str`                                                | Yes      | —       |
| `pass_threshold`   | `int`                                                | Yes      | —       |
| `model_id`         | \`str                                                | None\`   | No      |
| `provider`         | `Optional[Provider[dict[str, Any], dict[str, Any]]]` | No       | `None`  |
| `higher_is_better` | `bool`                                               | No       | `True`  |
| `score_range`      | \`tuple\[int, int]                                   | None\`   | No      |

Initialize the GLIDER guardrail.

## validate

Use the provided pass criteria and rubric to judge the input and output text provided.

**Parameters**

| Parameter     | Type  | Required | Default |
| ------------- | ----- | -------- | ------- |
| `input_text`  | `str` | Yes      | —       |
| `output_text` | \`str | None\`   | No      |

**Returns:** `GuardrailOutput`


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