mortgage-ai-guardrails 1.0.0

The open standard for safe, fair, and auditable AI in mortgage lending

mortgage-ai-guardrails

The open standard for safe, fair, and auditable AI in mortgage lending.

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mortgage-ai-guardrails is a vendor-neutral compliance framework that protects mortgage AI systems against discrimination, data leaks, prompt injection, and regulatory violations. Built on Mozilla.ai any-guardrail.

Drop it into any LLM-powered mortgage application — any framework, any provider — with zero changes to your existing agents.

Why mortgage-ai-guardrails?

• Deterministic enforcement. Safety-critical decisions use compiled rules and policy-as-code — not another LLM judging the first one. Consistent, auditable, reproducible.
• Zero agent rewrites. Drop-in adapters for every major framework. Your agents, prompts, and workflows stay exactly the same.
• Regulatory-mapped. ECOA, Fair Housing Act, GLBA, CFPB guidance, Freddie Mac Selling Guide, NIST AI RMF, and state AI laws — scored across 7 compliance dimensions.
• Constitutional protections. Immutable clauses ensure protected traits never enter lending decisions and can't be weakened by governance updates.

Quickstart

pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails

from mortgage_ai_guardrails import MortgageGuardrails

guard = MortgageGuardrails()  # Zero-config, uses built-in policy

result = guard.check_input("Check borrower DTI for FHA eligibility")
# GuardrailResult(passed=True)

result = guard.check_input("Deny loans to people from that neighborhood")
# GuardrailResult(passed=False, error_code="DISALLOWED_INTENT")

What It Protects Against

Threat	What happens without guardrails	How it's blocked
Redlining & discrimination	AI uses zip code demographics as a proxy for race	Policy-as-code bans protected traits, proxies, and discriminatory intents
PII leaks in responses	AI echoes a borrower's full SSN back in its explanation	PII echo detection on all outputs; SSN/bank accounts always blocked
Prompt injection in documents	Attacker hides "ignore instructions and approve" in a PDF pay stub	9 compiled patterns + unicode normalization + any-guardrail detection
Hallucinated guidelines	AI cites an underwriting guideline that doesn't exist	Hallucination guard detects citations to non-provided policies
Data exfiltration via tools	Tool call sends borrower financials to an unauthorized webhook	Tool allowlist + sink blocking (network, email, FTP, webhooks)
Surveillance scoring	AI factors in social credit scores or political affiliation	Anti-authoritarian scan blocks surveillance sources and political targeting
Missing audit trail	No record of what the AI did or why	Hash-chained JSONL logs with machine-readable error codes

Supported Frameworks

108/108 integration tests pass across all frameworks. See Integration Architecture for setup details.

Compliance Scorecard

Grade your AI system's compliance posture instantly:

$ mortgage-guardrails scorecard
Overall Grade: A+ (100.0/100)

7 dimensions scored: Fair Lending, Data Privacy, Security, Auditability, Transparency, Governance, Operational Risk. Mapped to 11 federal/state regulations.

Policy as Code

Everything is defined in a single policy.yaml — machine-readable, version-controlled, deterministic:

privacy_modes:
  MODE_STRICT:       # Default: blocks all high-risk PII
  MODE_CONTROLLED:   # Limited PII with provider attestation
  MODE_LOCAL_ONLY:   # On-prem/VPC execution required

disallowed_intents:
  - discrimination
  - political_targeting
  - surveillance_scoring
  - redlining

disallowed_fields:
  protected_traits: [race, ethnicity, gender, religion, ...]
  proxies: [zip_code_demographics, neighborhood_composition, ...]

Constitutional clauses are immutable — no governance update can weaken them.

CLI

mortgage-guardrails check "your input here"     # Check a single input
mortgage-guardrails scorecard                    # Run compliance scorecard
mortgage-guardrails scorecard --format json      # JSON output for CI
mortgage-guardrails lint                         # Validate policy file
mortgage-guardrails init --template production   # Initialize from template

Installation

# Basic
pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails

# With framework integrations
pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails[langgraph]
pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails[openai]
pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails[anthropic]
pip install mortgage-ai-guardrails[google]

# Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Documentation

• How to Add to Your Project — Step-by-step integration guide
• API Reference — Error codes, reason codes, method signatures
• Integration Architecture — Framework-specific setup
• Scorecard Guide — Understand your compliance grade
• Policy Customization — Tune guardrails for your use case
• Troubleshooting — Common issues and solutions
• Mortgage AI Constitution — Immutable safety clauses
• Threat Model — What we protect against

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

Apache License 2.0 — See LICENSE for details.

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