#1538·guardrails

[feat] Add Hub manifest entries for pan-African validators (+ WAF bug blocking hub submit CLI)

Author: kingztech2019Created Jun 20, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
LabelsenhancementStale

Description Requesting Hub manifest entries for two pan-African validators that are already live on PyPI. Also reporting a WAF bug that blocks guardrails hub submit for any validator file above ~5KB.

WAF bug Running guardrails hub submit african_pii ./validator/main.py returns a CloudFront 403 for the full file (~9KB). Small payloads reach the endpoint fine and return {"status":202,"message":"Accepted"} — it's purely a request size/pattern issue on the WAF. This will affect any non-trivial validator submission.

Hub listing request

  1. guardrails/african_pii

  2. guardrails/african_compliance

Both: Apache 2.0, 20+ tests passing, guardrails-ai>=0.4.0 only dependency.

Why is this needed No existing Hub validator covers African PII formats or African financial regulations. These fill a real gap for fintech teams building on Guardrails in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda and Egypt.

End result guardrails hub install hub://guardrails/african_pii and guardrails hub install hub://guardrails/african_compliance work for end users.

Source: guardrails-ai/guardrails