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Garak vs Guardrails AI

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Garak and Guardrails AI, two Security & Guardrails projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Guardrails AI leads on trust — 82.8/100 (Grade A) vs 58.1/100 (Grade C), a 24.7-point gap. Full breakdown below.
Signal Garakleondz/garak Guardrails AIguardrails-ai/guardrails
HVTrust score 58.1 82.8
Evidence grade C A
Coverage grade A A
Overall rank #215 #43
Rank in Security & Guardrails #4 #1
GitHub stars 8.4k 7.1k
Last updated 1d ago 1d ago
Build provenance No Yes
OSSF Scorecard 4.8 / 10 6.0 / 10
License Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0
Downloads 14k/wk 41k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25 9.8 20.0
Identity & provenance / 18 10.8 18.0
Transparency / 17 12.6 13.6
Maintenance / 20 17.5 17.6
Adoption / 20 15.0 15.4
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server
External providers 3 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI 2 — Anthropic, OpenAI
Requires API keys Yes Yes
Plugin surface plugins
Provenance drift Warning Unknown
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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.2 →