{
  "id": "llama-guard",
  "name": "Llama Guard",
  "category": "evals-observability",
  "summary": "Meta's open-weight safety classifiers that label LLM prompts and responses as safe or unsafe against the MLCommons hazard taxonomy.",
  "description": "Llama Guard 4 is a 12B natively multimodal classifier (text plus multiple images) pruned from Llama 4 Scout, combining Llama Guard 3-8B and 3-11B-vision; it adds a Code Interpreter Abuse category for tool-call use. Weights are gated on Hugging Face under the Llama 4 Community License; earlier versions use the Llama 2/3/3.2 community licenses. Part of Meta's Purple Llama project.",
  "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/llama-guard-4",
  "repo": "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama",
  "docs": "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/blob/main/Llama-Guard4/12B/MODEL_CARD.md",
  "tags": [
    "guardrails",
    "safety",
    "content-moderation",
    "open-weights",
    "meta"
  ],
  "license": "LicenseRef-Llama-4-Community-License",
  "pricing": "free",
  "status": "active",
  "related": [
    "llama-prompt-guard-2",
    "llamafirewall",
    "nemo-guardrails",
    "guardrails-ai"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama",
    "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/blob/main/Llama-Guard4/12B/MODEL_CARD.md",
    "https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B",
    "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/llama-guard-4"
  ],
  "added": "2026-11-02",
  "updated": "2026-11-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-11-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Meta",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/llama-guard/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/llama-guard.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/llama-guard.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/evals-observability/llama-guard.json"
  }
}