llama-guard-prompt-guard-safety-models-on-huggingface

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Llama Guard and Prompt Guard are dedicated safety/guardrail models distributed alongside base Llama weights under the meta-llama organization on Hugging Face (huggingface.co/meta-llama).

Summary

Meta publishes purpose-built safety filters (Llama Guard for content, Prompt Guard for prompts) right next to the base Llama weights on Hugging Face, signaling that a responsible deployment is expected to pair the base model with one of these guardrails rather than relying on the base model's own alignment alone. In practical terms, anyone assembling a Llama-based system should treat these safety models as a standard companion layer, not an optional add-on.