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# Python SDK
> Complete Python SDK reference
## Installation
```bash theme={null}
pip install raxe
```
## Basic Usage
```python title="basic.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe
# Initialize RAXE client
raxe = Raxe()
# Scan a prompt
result = raxe.scan("Ignore all previous instructions")
# Check for threats
if result.has_threats:
print(f"Threat detected!")
print(f"Severity: {result.severity}") # "critical", "high", "medium", "low"
print(f"Total detections: {result.total_detections}")
```
## ScanPipelineResult Object
The `scan()` method returns a `ScanPipelineResult`:
```python title="result_example.py" theme={null}
result = raxe.scan("test prompt")
# Boolean evaluation - True when SAFE
if result: # True when no threats
print("Safe to proceed")
else:
print("Threat detected")
# Properties
result.has_threats # bool: True if any threat detected
result.severity # str | None: "critical", "high", "medium", "low", "info"
result.total_detections # int: Number of detections (L1 + L2)
result.detections # list[Detection]: All L1 detections
result.duration_ms # float: Total scan time in milliseconds
result.should_block # bool: True if policy says to block
result.l1_detections # int: Count of L1 detections
result.l2_detections # int: Count of L2 predictions
result.text_hash # str: SHA256 hash of scanned text (for logging)
```
## Detection Object
Each detection contains:
```python title="detection_example.py" theme={null}
for detection in result.detections:
detection.rule_id # str: "pi-001" - unique rule identifier
detection.rule_version # str: "1.0.0" - rule version
detection.severity # Severity: Severity.HIGH - enum value
detection.confidence # float: 0.95 - detection confidence (0.0-1.0)
detection.category # str: "PI" - threat family code
detection.matches # list[Match]: Matched text spans
```
## Match Object
```python title="match_example.py" theme={null}
for detection in result.detections:
for match in detection.matches:
match.matched_text # str: The matched content (for debugging only)
match.start # int: Start position in original text
match.end # int: End position in original text
```
## Configuration Options
```python title="config.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe
raxe = Raxe(
# API key (optional - reads from config or RAXE_API_KEY env var if not provided)
api_key="raxe_...",
# Telemetry (privacy-preserving - never transmits prompts)
telemetry=True, # Enable telemetry for threat intelligence
# Detection layers
l2_enabled=True, # Enable ML detection (neural classifier)
# L2 voting preset for threshold tuning
voting_preset="balanced", # "balanced" | "high_security" | "low_fp"
)
```
## Background Scanning
For latency-sensitive applications (FastAPI, real-time APIs), use background scan mode. The scan runs asynchronously on a worker thread -- your code continues immediately with \~0ms overhead.
```python title="background_mode.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe
from raxe.sdk.agent_scanner import AgentScannerConfig, create_agent_scanner
raxe = Raxe()
scanner = create_agent_scanner(
raxe,
AgentScannerConfig(
on_threat="log",
execution_mode="background",
on_threat_callback=lambda r: print(
f"Threat: severity={r.severity}, hash={r.prompt_hash}"
),
),
)
# Returns in <1ms — scan runs in background
scanner.scan_prompt("user input")
# Your code continues immediately
result = call_llm(prompt)
```
### Execution Modes
| Mode | Overhead | Threat Result | Use Case |
| ------------------ | --------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `"sync"` (default) | \~5-200ms | Inline | When you need to block on threats |
| `"background"` | \~0ms | Via callback | Log-only monitoring, latency-sensitive apps |
Background mode is incompatible with `on_threat="block"`. If both are set, RAXE auto-corrects to sync mode with a warning.
## Decorator Pattern
Protect functions automatically:
```python title="decorated.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe, RaxeBlockedError
raxe = Raxe()
@raxe.protect
def generate_response(prompt: str) -> str:
"""Scanned before execution."""
return llm.generate(prompt)
# Usage
try:
response = generate_response(user_input)
except RaxeBlockedError as e:
print(f"Blocked: {e.severity}")
print(f"Rule: {e.rule_id}")
```
## Custom Threat Handling
```python title="custom_handling.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe, RaxeException
raxe = Raxe()
def process_with_custom_logic(user_input: str) -> str:
try:
result = raxe.scan(user_input)
except RaxeException as e:
# Handle scan errors - decide fail open or fail closed
logger.error(f"RAXE scan error: {e}")
return generate_normally(user_input) # Fail open example
if result.has_threats:
severity = result.severity
if severity == "critical":
# Block and alert security team
alert_security_team(result)
return "Request blocked."
elif severity == "high":
# Log and proceed with additional guardrails
log_suspicious_activity(result)
return generate_with_guardrails(user_input)
else:
# Low/Medium - log but allow
log_detection(result)
return generate_normally(user_input)
```
## Context Manager
Ensures proper cleanup:
```python title="context.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe
# Automatic cleanup - recommended for scripts and short-lived processes
with Raxe() as raxe:
result = raxe.scan("test prompt")
# Process result...
# Telemetry automatically flushed on exit
```
## Error Handling
```python title="error_handling.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe, RaxeBlockedError, RaxeException
raxe = Raxe()
try:
result = raxe.scan(user_input, block_on_threat=True)
except RaxeBlockedError as e:
# Threat was detected and blocked by policy
print(f"Blocked: {e.result.severity}")
print(f"Detections: {e.result.total_detections}")
print(f"Rule: {e.rule_id}")
except RaxeException as e:
# Other RAXE errors (config, initialization, etc.)
print(f"Error: {e}")
# Decide: fail open (allow) or fail closed (block)
```
## Filtering Detections
```python title="filtering.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Severity
result = raxe.scan(user_input)
# Filter by category (threat family)
pi_threats = [d for d in result.detections if d.category == "PI"] # Prompt Injection
de_threats = [d for d in result.detections if d.category == "DE"] # Data Exfiltration
# Filter by severity (using enum for type safety)
critical = [d for d in result.detections if d.severity == Severity.CRITICAL]
high_and_above = [d for d in result.detections if d.severity >= Severity.HIGH]
# Filter by confidence threshold
high_confidence = [d for d in result.detections if d.confidence >= 0.9]
```
## Multi-Tenant Scanning
For multi-customer deployments, pass `tenant_id` and `app_id` to resolve tenant-specific policies:
```python title="multi_tenant.py" theme={null}
from raxe import Raxe
raxe = Raxe()
# Scan with tenant context for policy resolution
result = raxe.scan(
"Ignore all previous instructions",
tenant_id="acme", # Customer tenant identifier
app_id="chatbot", # Application within tenant
)
# Policy attribution for billing/audit
print(f"Policy: {result.metadata['effective_policy_id']}")
print(f"Mode: {result.metadata['effective_policy_mode']}")
print(f"Source: {result.metadata['resolution_source']}")
```
### Override Policy Per-Request
```python title="policy_override.py" theme={null}
# Override the tenant/app default policy for specific requests
result = raxe.scan(
prompt,
tenant_id="acme",
app_id="chatbot",
policy_id="strict" # Force strict mode for this request
)
```
See [Multi-Tenant Policies](/concepts/multi-tenant) for full documentation.
## Thread Safety
The `Raxe` client is thread-safe:
```python title="threaded.py" theme={null}
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from raxe import Raxe
raxe = Raxe() # Single instance - reuse across threads
def scan_prompt(prompt: str):
return raxe.scan(prompt)
# Safe to use from multiple threads
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as executor:
results = list(executor.map(scan_prompt, prompts))
```
## What's Next
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