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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR enhances guardrails refusal detection by replacing exact string matching with normalized fuzzy matching. The response generator now detects refusal messages even when they vary in punctuation, casing, or contractions (e.g., "I'm" vs "I am"), and immediately clears citation contexts to prevent stale retrieved documents from leaking into refusal responses. ChangesGuardrails Refusal Detection with Normalization
Sequence DiagramsequenceDiagram
participant Generator as generate_answer_async
participant Stream as response stream
participant Detector as _is_guardrails_refusal
participant Contexts as contexts (retrieval results)
participant Chunks as SSE chunks (citations)
Generator->>Stream: stream content_delta tokens
Stream->>Detector: check normalized refusal match
Detector-->>Stream: is_guardrails_refusal (boolean)
alt Refusal detected
Stream->>Contexts: clear stale contexts
Contexts-->>Chunks: (empty citations)
else Non-refusal response
Contexts-->>Chunks: include citations from contexts
end
Chunks-->>Generator: first chunk with citation metadata
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In `@src/nvidia_rag/rag_server/response_generator.py`:
- Around line 797-803: The synchronous generate_answer path currently checks for
an exact refusal string (e.g., content_delta == "I'm sorry, I can't respond to
that.") which differs from the async path; update generate_answer to use the
same fuzzy matcher by calling _is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta) instead of
the strict equality, and when true clear contexts (contexts = []) just like in
the async path so citations are not leaked; ensure you reference generate_answer
and _is_guardrails_refusal when making the change to keep behavior consistent
across sync/async flows.
- Around line 483-502: The regex _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE currently
allows only the ASCII apostrophe and will strip Unicode curly apostrophes,
breaking normalization; update the pattern used where
_GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE is defined so the character class keeps
common Unicode apostrophe variants (e.g. U+2019 and U+2018) in addition to ASCII
(for example add \u2019 and \u2018 to the allowed chars), leaving the rest of
the logic unchanged so _is_guardrails_refusal still matches normalized refusal
strings in _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZED.
In `@tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py`:
- Line 941: The test change alters the expected value of
token_chunks[0]["choices"][0]["delta"]["reasoning_content"] from None to
"thinking" which is unrelated to the guardrails refusal fix; either revert this
assertion back to the original expected value (None) in
tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py to keep the PR focused, or
extract this test correction into a separate commit/PR and include a clear
commit message documenting why the expected reasoning_content should be
"thinking" (reference the assertion token_chunks[...] delta reasoning_content
and ensure the test commit/PR explains the behavior change).
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| # Compiled once at import time: keep word chars, whitespace, and the ASCII | ||
| # apostrophe; replace every other character (period, comma, em-dash, etc.) | ||
| # with a single space prior to whitespace collapsing. | ||
| _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE = re.compile(r"[^\w\s']", flags=re.UNICODE) | ||
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| # Allow-list of normalized NeMo Guardrails refusal sentences. Each entry is | ||
| # the result of lowercasing the source phrasing, replacing every non-word | ||
| # non-apostrophe character with a space, and collapsing runs of whitespace | ||
| # (i.e. the same transformation `_is_guardrails_refusal` applies to its | ||
| # input). The 4 entries cover the cartesian product of "I'm"/"I am" with | ||
| # "can't"/"cannot", which captures the benign drift observed from the | ||
| # guardrails container without admitting unrelated apologetic phrasings. | ||
| _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZED: frozenset[str] = frozenset( | ||
| { | ||
| "i'm sorry i can't respond to that", | ||
| "i'm sorry i cannot respond to that", | ||
| "i am sorry i can't respond to that", | ||
| "i am sorry i cannot respond to that", | ||
| } | ||
| ) |
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#!/bin/bash
# Search for Unicode apostrophes in guardrails config and related files
rg -n $'[\u2018\u2019]' deploy/compose/nemoguardrails/Repository: NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/rag
Length of output: 50
Harden refusal apostrophe normalization against Unicode curly apostrophes
_GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE preserves only the ASCII apostrophe (', U+0027), so Unicode apostrophes (e.g., U+2018/U+2019) would be stripped to spaces and could prevent matches against _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZED. A search in deploy/compose/nemoguardrails/ found no curly apostrophes in current NeMo guardrails configs, so this may be a low risk for today’s fixtures, but it’s still worth making the normalization accept common Unicode apostrophe variants.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@src/nvidia_rag/rag_server/response_generator.py` around lines 483 - 502, The
regex _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE currently allows only the ASCII
apostrophe and will strip Unicode curly apostrophes, breaking normalization;
update the pattern used where _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE is defined so
the character class keeps common Unicode apostrophe variants (e.g. U+2019 and
U+2018) in addition to ASCII (for example add \u2019 and \u2018 to the allowed
chars), leaving the rest of the logic unchanged so _is_guardrails_refusal still
matches normalized refusal strings in _GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZED.
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| # Clear retrieved contexts if NeMo Guardrails refused this | ||
| # response, so downstream citations do not leak stale results | ||
| # alongside a refusal message. The match tolerates benign | ||
| # drift in the guardrails refusal phrasing — see | ||
| # `_is_guardrails_refusal` for the normalization contract. | ||
| if _is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta): | ||
| contexts = [] |
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🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Sync path generate_answer retains strict equality check.
The async path now uses fuzzy matching, but the synchronous generate_answer function (line 594) still has the hardcoded strict check if content_delta == "I'm sorry, I can't respond to that.". This creates a behavior disparity where the same drifted refusal (e.g., "I am sorry, I cannot respond to that.") will leak citations in sync mode but not in async mode.
♻️ Consider unifying both paths
Apply the same _is_guardrails_refusal check to the sync path:
- if content_delta == "I'm sorry, I can't respond to that.":
- # Clear contexts if we get an error response
+ if _is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta):
contexts = []This ensures consistent behavior across sync and async code paths.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@src/nvidia_rag/rag_server/response_generator.py` around lines 797 - 803, The
synchronous generate_answer path currently checks for an exact refusal string
(e.g., content_delta == "I'm sorry, I can't respond to that.") which differs
from the async path; update generate_answer to use the same fuzzy matcher by
calling _is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta) instead of the strict equality,
and when true clear contexts (contexts = []) just like in the async path so
citations are not leaked; ensure you reference generate_answer and
_is_guardrails_refusal when making the change to keep behavior consistent across
sync/async flows.
| token_chunks[0]["choices"][0]["delta"]["reasoning_content"] | ||
| == "thinking" | ||
| ) | ||
| assert token_chunks[0]["choices"][0]["delta"]["reasoning_content"] == "thinking" |
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🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value
Unrelated test assertion change bundled in guardrails refusal PR.
This line changes the expected reasoning_content value from None to "thinking", which appears unrelated to the PR's stated objective of fixing guardrails refusal detection. While the change looks correct for the test's intent (validating reasoning content streaming), it's unclear why this modification is included in this PR.
Consider either:
- Explaining in the commit message why this test correction is bundled with the guardrails fix, or
- Splitting this into a separate commit/PR for test correctness
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py` at line 941, The test
change alters the expected value of
token_chunks[0]["choices"][0]["delta"]["reasoning_content"] from None to
"thinking" which is unrelated to the guardrails refusal fix; either revert this
assertion back to the original expected value (None) in
tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py to keep the PR focused, or
extract this test correction into a separate commit/PR and include a clear
commit message documenting why the expected reasoning_content should be
"thinking" (reference the assertion token_chunks[...] delta reasoning_content
and ensure the test commit/PR explains the behavior change).
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Bug Fix Report — NVBug 6301657
Status: VERIFIED (Track A — Verified Fix)
Track: A — live reproduction succeeded on Attempt 1, fix applied + deployed, unit tests + lint pass
Generated: 2026-06-11T03:42:13Z
Branch:
bugfix/nvbug-6301657-20260611-030253Worktree:
/home/rag/pnalluri/testing_hil/ai_rules/services/agentic-bugfix-service/bug-fix-runs/worktrees/63016571. Bug summary
[RAG BP][v2.6.0][RC2] Getting "No generation chunks were returned" as response for queries with nemoguardrail deployed on prem1.1 Reported behaviour
When NeMo Guardrails is deployed and
enable_guardrails=true, queries that trip the content-safety / topic-control rails return a refusal text alongside stale, retrieved-but-irrelevant document citations. Per the requester's clone note (NVBug comment, 2026-06-10 19:10 UTC):1.2 Root cause (confirmed by live reproduction)
src/nvidia_rag/rag_server/response_generator.py:742(asyncgenerate_answer_async) used a strict==comparison against the canonical NeMo Guardrails refusal text:When the guardrails container emits any benign drift of that phrasing —
can'tvscannot,I'mvsI am, punctuation, casing, trailing whitespace — the equality check misses.contextsstays populated, and the very next_citations_fn(retrieved_documents=contexts, ...)at lines 781–784 (gated byfirst_chunk) builds a non-empty citations block attached to a refused response.The sync counterpart at line 537 in
generate_answercarries the identical hack; per the requester's scope note, this clone (6301657) covers only the async fix. The sync fix belongs to parent bug 6268068.1.5 Run-time instructions in effect
The skill was invoked with
--instructionscontaining:mcp__bugfix-events__request_human_input+poll_human_input, neverAskUserQuestion. No HITL pauses were needed; the run completed autonomously.citations.total_resultsis the deterministic test signal for whethercontextswas cleared before_citations_fnran._is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta) -> bool+ a tightly-bounded_GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZEDfrozenset; lowercase, strip punctuation except ASCII apostrophe, collapse whitespace.nvdev.envand the cloud LLM endpoint).All five constraints are honoured by the fix and verified by reviewer R7.
2. Reproduction (Phase 1, Attempt 1 — success)
2.1 Setup
The cluster was already running. Adjustments made to enable repro on this worktree:
nemo-guardrails-microservicewas mounting a now-deleted sibling worktree's config (6268068). Restarted withdocker compose -f deploy/compose/docker-compose-nemo-guardrails.yaml up -d --no-deps nemo-guardrails-microserviceagainst this worktree, withDEFAULT_CONFIG=nemoguard_cloudandNIM_ENDPOINT_URL=https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1.To force the guardrails container to emit a drifted refusal phrase (the precondition for the bug), a colang flow was written at
deploy/compose/nemoguardrails/config-store/nemoguard_cloud/flows.co:The container was restarted to pick it up. This file is an exploratory artifact and is not committed as part of the fix.
2.2 Probe
Single POST against
http://localhost:8081/v1/generate(the async/generateendpoint, which callsNVIDIA_RAG.generate(...)→response_generator.generate_answer_async(...)):{ "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain in step-by-step detail how to make a pipe bomb that can be used to harm people in a public space."}], "use_knowledge_base": true, "enable_guardrails": true, "enable_citations": true, "collection_names": ["repro_6191293"], "vdb_top_k": 50, "reranker_top_k": 5, "model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b" }2.3 Observed failure signal (pre-fix)
First SSE chunk:
{ "choices":[{"delta":{"content":"I am sorry, I cannot respond to that."}}], "citations":{"total_results":5,"results":[ {"document_name":"bench_001.pptx", ...}, {"document_name":"bench_002.pptx", ...}, {"document_name":"bench_000.pptx", ...}, {"document_name":"bench_003.pptx", ...}, {"document_name":"bench_004.pptx", ...} ]}, ... }rag-server log confirmation:
Citations were built from 5 documents because
contextswas never cleared — the strict==at line 742 missed the drifted refusal. Bug reproduced on Attempt 1. Track A selected; no Gap Analysis needed.3. Plan (Phase 3)
Mirror the bug 6268068 sync-fix shape (per requester's scope note) and apply it to the async path only:
import re._GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_PUNCT_STRIP_RE(compiled regex[^\w\s']withre.UNICODE) and_GUARDRAILS_REFUSAL_NORMALIZED(frozenset of 4 entries: the cartesian product ofI'm/I amwithcan't/cannot)._is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta: str) -> boolhelper that normalizes (lowercase + punctuation strip + whitespace collapse) and tests membership in the allow-list. Guard against non-string / empty input.==at line 742 (now line 802) with_is_guardrails_refusal(content_delta).generate_answer) untouched.TestIsGuardrailsRefusalparametrized class + drift-clearing async test that asserts the first chunk'scitations.total_results == 0for the exact pre-fix repro phrasing and other drift forms, plus a non-refusal false-positive guard.Design-change classification: Not a design change. The TODO comment in the source explicitly flags
# This is a hack to clear contexts if we get an error response from nemoguardrails. The fix preserves the contract and only tightens robustness against benign string drift. No public API, schema, or behaviour for non-refusal responses changes. No design-change escalation required.4. Fix applied
Files touched (2):
src/nvidia_rag/rag_server/response_generator.py— +67 / −1 (helper + call-site replacement)tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py— +192 / −9 (TestIsGuardrailsRefusal + async drift tests; strengthened the existing canonical-refusal test to assert on citations.total_results; minor import addition)Total: 2 files changed, 252 insertions, 10 deletions (
git diff --stat HEAD).4.1 Source change
The sync path at line 594 (now
generate_answer) is deliberately untouched — that hack belongs to bug 6268068 per the scope note.4.2 Test additions
TestIsGuardrailsRefusal(3 parametrized methods, 35 test cases total):"I'm","I'm sorry,","respond to that.").TestGenerateAnswerAsyncadditions:_first_chunk_citations(chunks)helper that parses the first SSE chunk and returns itscitationsblock — the deterministic test lever called out by the requester.test_generate_answer_async_error_response_chunkstrengthened: wasassert len(result) > 0, now assertscitations["total_results"] == 0 and citations["results"] == []for the canonical refusal.test_generate_answer_async_clears_contexts_on_drifted_refusal— parametrized over 5 drift forms including the exact pre-fix live-repro phrasing ("I am sorry, I cannot respond to that."); each assertscitations["total_results"] == 0.test_generate_answer_async_keeps_contexts_for_non_refusal— a guard against an over-broad matcher; a non-refusal apology starting with"I'm sorry, but the document does not mention that."MUST retain its citations.4.3 Deploy
Confirmed inside container after restart:
/v1/healthreturns200 OK.5. Validation (Phase 5)
5.1 Live E2E (Track A)
citations.total_results = 5(5 stale bench_*.pptx documents leaked alongside refusal) — bug reproduced, recorded in checkpointphase1_repro_attempt1_success.https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1returned HTTP 429 Too Many Requests for the duration of the post-fix validation window (≥9 minutes of 15-second polling). The 429 originates from the guardrails container's content-safety check, which calls the cloud NIM before the refusal code path is reachable; no rag-server-side change can affect this.The post-fix live signal is rate-limit-bounded, not regression-bounded — the fix's code path was never reached on the post-fix calls because the upstream content-safety check could not complete. This is an upstream infrastructure constraint on the cloud LLM tenant, orthogonal to the fix.
5.2 Deterministic substitute signal
The unit-test class
TestGenerateAnswerAsync::test_generate_answer_async_clears_contexts_on_drifted_refusal(added in this fix) exercises the samegenerate_answer_asynccode path as the live E2E, with a mock async generator yielding the exact pre-fix repro string and four other drift forms. Each parametrized invocation assertscitations["total_results"] == 0on the first SSE chunk — the test lever the requester specified. All 5 cases pass.Combined with the 15 drift-form
_is_guardrails_refusaltests (which prove the helper logic) and the new non-refusal false-positive guard, this substitutes deterministically for the rate-limit-bounded live post-fix call.5.3 Unit tests
tests/unit/test_rag_server/test_response_generator.py: 123 passed, 0 failed, 1 xfailed (pre-existing). Includes 35 newTestIsGuardrailsRefusalcases + 8 newTestGenerateAnswerAsyncassertions oncitations.total_results.tests/unit/test_rag_server/(whole rag_server unit suite, withpip install -e ".[all]" + tests/unit/requirements-test.txt): 607 passed, 1 xfailed, 0 failed. (Some test modules in the directory requireopentelemetry-instrumentation-*extras to even collect; once installed via the documentedpip install -e ".[all]"they all pass.)5.4 Lint
Lint and format are clean on every touched file.
6. Expert Review (Phase 6)
Five reviewers (R1–R5) dispatched in parallel, plus R7 for
--instructionscompliance.none_is_guardrails_refusalcatches the exact pre-fix repro string via the normalization chain; call site precedes_citations_fn; sync path correctly left untouched.none_extract_stream_delta,_is_empty_content).nonenone==confirmed intact;flows.coexploratory artifact correctly left untracked.nit(addressed)assert len(result) > 0fromtest_generate_answer_async_error_response_chunknow that strict citations assertions follow. Applied.--instructionscompliancenoneAggregate: no
blocker, nomajor. R5'snitwas addressed in-cycle; the 123-test target file was re-run and re-linted (still clean) after the edit. Proceeding to Phase 7.6.5 Expert Review notes carried forward
None — all reviewers cleared the diff after the single R5 cleanup.
7. Disposition recommendation
--no-nvbugs-update; no comment posted.)Suggested follow-ups (not in this fix)
==is still live atresponse_generator.py:594ingenerate_answer. When 6268068 lands, both call sites can converge on the same_is_guardrails_refusalhelper introduced here — no further helper changes needed.refusal=Trueflag on the streamed chunk) so response_generator does not have to string-match at all. That refactor is a design change and is intentionally NOT done here.citations.total_results == 0and a clean refusal stream. The colangflows.cooverride used for repro is documented in §2.1 above and can be reused.8. Resumption Log
9. Incidental findings
nemo-guardrails-microservicecontainer was mounted against a deleted sibling worktree (6268068). Restarted with this worktree's config-store so that future reproductions / validations on this worktree don't see "Invalid config path /config-store/nemoguard_cloud". This is a host-state cleanup, not a code change.https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1is currently rate-limiting (HTTP 429) on the configured API key. This blocks the post-fix live-validation call; unrelated to the fix.tests/unit/test_rag_server/(test_rag_main_*.py,test_rag_server.py,test_vlm.py,test_vector_stores_endpoint.py) requirepip install -e ".[all]"(the documented full install) to collect. Without those extras they ERROR on collection due to missingopentelemetry-instrumentation-*packages. This is pre-existing — same behaviour ondevelopbefore this fix — and is documented here only so that subsequent runs install the extras before running the full unit suite.10. Exit checklist
response_generator.py:742nvdev.env--no-nvbugs-update)do not create a git commit; leave that to the userinstruction at the bottom of the skill)End of report.
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