sovergate

Python SDK for Sovergate: EU AI Act Article 12 audit logging for LLM calls, with PII scrubbed inside your own infrastructure.

Early access. The SDK is published as an alpha and the hosted ingest service is not generally available yet. APIs may change before 1.0.

How it works

Your app keeps calling OpenAI or Anthropic directly. Sovergate does not proxy or intercept the request. After a call completes, the SDK takes a copy, scrubs personal data locally, and sends the scrubbed copy to Sovergate from a background thread.

Your app ─────────────────────────────► OpenAI / Anthropic
              │
              └──► scrub PII locally ──► Sovergate (background, fire and forget)

Install

pip install --pre sovergate

--pre is needed while the SDK is in alpha. Requires Python 3.10+. No runtime dependencies.

Quick start

import openai
import sovergate

sovergate.init(api_key="sov_prod_xxxx")
sovergate.instrument(openai)

# Your existing code is unchanged
response = openai.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
# The response is returned immediately; logging happens in the background

You can also instrument a client instance, sync or async:

from openai import AsyncOpenAI

client = AsyncOpenAI()
sovergate.instrument(client)

Anthropic

Pass a client instance (the anthropic module itself has no client to patch):

import anthropic
import sovergate

client = anthropic.Anthropic()        # or anthropic.AsyncAnthropic()
sovergate.init(api_key="sov_prod_xxxx")
sovergate.instrument(client)

Stable PII tokens (recommended)

By default, detected PII is replaced with positional placeholders ([EMAIL_REDACTED_1]), which are not correlatable between logs. Pass a pii_key to replace values with deterministic, irreversible HMAC-SHA256 tokens instead. The same value always maps to the same token, so Sovergate can count unique people, IBANs and so on without ever receiving the raw values.

sovergate.init(api_key="sov_prod_xxxx", pii_key="<your-secret>")

The pii_key is your secret. Keep it stable, and never send it to us: it stays on your infrastructure, and without it the tokens cannot be reversed.

Options

sovergate.init(
    api_key="sov_prod_xxxx",           # required
    base_url="https://...",            # default: https://api.sovergate.com
    pii_key="<your-secret>",           # optional, see above
    debug=True,                        # verbose output from the "sovergate" logger only
)

What is sent to Sovergate

For each completed call, one JSON record:

Never sent: the raw prompt or response, your pii_key, your LLM provider API key, or request headers.

What the scrubber detects

Regex-based, applied to every text part of the prompt and response: email addresses, IP addresses, IBANs (including the spaced format), card numbers, phone numbers, dates of birth, ID numbers, and names that follow a title (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof). Other personal data, such as names without a title, is not detected yet, so keep data minimisation in mind when you build prompts. The code is in sovergate/scrubber.py.

Guarantees

• Never blocks your call: logging runs in a background daemon thread
• Never raises: if setup fails, the SDK logs a warning on the sovergate logger and stays out of the way
• Returns the provider's response unchanged; with_raw_response keeps working
• Never changes your app's logging configuration, even with debug=True
• 2 second timeout on every HTTP call to Sovergate
• If Sovergate is unreachable, records are queued in memory (up to 10,000) and retried with exponential backoff
• A record Sovergate permanently rejects (for example after a key is revoked) is dropped with a warning, so it never blocks the records behind it

Current limitations

• Streaming calls (stream=True) are passed through untouched but not logged yet.
• Calls made through with_raw_response are not logged.
• The retry queue is in memory, so queued records are lost if the process exits.

Development

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Security

Please report vulnerabilities privately. See SECURITY.md.

License

MIT