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POST/api/v1/moderation/text

Moderate text output through the full moderation stack

Customer-facing one-shot output moderation (the moderation analog of /firewall/check): a fused classifier (lexical + multilingual + optional neural tier, max-merged) followed by the tenant policy decision. Returns the flagged verdict, action, per-category scores/evidence, and whether the output is withheld.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/settings/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "text": "<Text to moderate (usually a model output>",
  "thresholds": {},
  "contextAware": false,
  "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "jurisdiction": "GLOBAL"
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "text": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 1000000,
          "description": "Text to moderate (usually a model output). 1 MiB safety cap."
        },
        "thresholds": {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": {
            "type": "number",
            "minimum": 0,
            "maximum": 1
          },
          "description": "Per-category flag thresholds (0..1), e.g. { \"self-harm\": 0.2 }."
        },
        "contextAware": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Down-weight fiction/quotation/negation cues (default true)."
        },
        "projectId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid",
          "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$",
          "description": "Optional — tenant resolution / telemetry (membership verified by the API handler)."
        },
        "jurisdiction": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "GLOBAL",
            "US",
            "EU",
            "DE",
            "FR",
            "GB",
            "IN",
            "BR",
            "AE",
            "SG",
            "CA",
            "AU"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "text"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

200Moderation verdict (flagged, action, blocked, severity, topCategory, drivingCategory, reason, categories, neuralApplied).
400(no description)
401(no description)
403Forbidden — the credential is valid but lacks the API-key scope, member role, or plan entitlement this operation requires.
422Unprocessable Entity — LEDGER_NO_ORG.
429(no description)
500Internal Server Error — an unhandled error was converted to the standard error envelope (INTERNAL_ERROR).
503Service Unavailable — LEDGER_CONTENTION, LEDGER_SIGNER_UNAVAILABLE, LEDGER_WRITE_FAILED.

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/moderation/text \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "text": "<Text to moderate (usually a model output>", "thresholds": {}, "contextAware": false, "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "jurisdiction": "GLOBAL" }'

TypeScript

// The TypeScript SDK (@evalguard/sdk) exposes TYPED methods — runEval,
// getEval, runSecurityScan, checkFirewall, … — not a generic request().
// For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

const res = await fetch("https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/moderation/text", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "text": "<Text to moderate (usually a model output>",
    "thresholds": {},
    "contextAware": false,
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "jurisdiction": "GLOBAL"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());

Python

# The Python SDK (pip install evalguardai) exposes TYPED methods on
# EvalGuardClient — run_eval, get_eval, … — not a generic request().
# For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

import os
import requests

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVALGUARD_API_KEY']}"}
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/moderation/text",
    headers=headers,
    json={
    "text": "<Text to moderate (usually a model output>",
    "thresholds": {},
    "contextAware": False,
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "jurisdiction": "GLOBAL"
},
)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"text":"<Text to moderate (usually a model output>","thresholds":{},"contextAware":false,"projectId":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","jurisdiction":"GLOBAL"}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/moderation/text", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401403422429500503

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