@evalguardai/anthropic

evalguardai-anthropic

Drop-in Anthropic SDK wrapper that adds real-time guardrails, trace logging, and cost tracking via EvalGuard.

Installation

npm install evalguardai-anthropic @anthropic-ai/sdk

Quick Start

import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";
import { wrapAnthropic } from "evalguardai-anthropic";

const anthropic = wrapAnthropic(new Anthropic(), {
  apiKey: "eg_...",
  projectId: "proj_...",
});

// Use exactly like the normal Anthropic SDK — guardrails are automatic
const message = await anthropic.messages.create({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello, how are you?" }],
});

console.log(message.content[0].text);

Streaming

Streaming works transparently with both create({ stream: true }) and the stream() helper method.

Using create with stream: true

const stream = await anthropic.messages.create({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Write a poem about AI safety" }],
  stream: true,
});

for await (const event of stream) {
  if (event.type === "content_block_delta" && event.delta.type === "text_delta") {
    process.stdout.write(event.delta.text);
  }
}

Using the stream() helper

const stream = await anthropic.messages.stream({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing" }],
});

for await (const event of stream) {
  if (event.type === "content_block_delta" && event.delta.type === "text_delta") {
    process.stdout.write(event.delta.text);
  }
}

Configuration

const anthropic = wrapAnthropic(new Anthropic(), {
  // Required: your EvalGuard API key
  apiKey: "eg_...",

  // Optional: EvalGuard API base URL (default: https://evalguard.ai/api/v1)
  baseUrl: "https://your-evalguard-instance.com/api/v1",

  // Optional: block requests that fail guardrails (default: true)
  blockOnViolation: true,

  // Optional: log all requests to EvalGuard (default: true)
  enableLogging: true,

  // Optional: project ID for organizing traces
  projectId: "proj_...",

  // Optional: custom metadata attached to every trace
  metadata: { environment: "production", service: "chatbot" },

  // Optional: callback when a guardrail violation is detected
  onViolation: (result) => {
    console.warn("Guardrail violation:", result.violations);
  },
});

What It Does

Phase	Action
Pre-request	Sends the prompt (including system prompt) to EvalGuard's firewall for prompt injection detection, PII scanning, and toxicity checks
LLM call	Passes through to the real Anthropic API unchanged
Post-response	Logs model, tokens, latency, cost, and guardrail results as a trace to EvalGuard

Fail-Open Design

If EvalGuard is unreachable (network error, timeout, 5xx), the wrapper passes requests through to Anthropic directly. Your application never breaks because of EvalGuard downtime.

Error Handling

When blockOnViolation is true (default) and a guardrail check fails:

import { EvalGuardViolationError } from "evalguardai-anthropic";

try {
  const message = await anthropic.messages.create({
    model: "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    max_tokens: 1024,
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: "malicious prompt..." }],
  });
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof EvalGuardViolationError) {
    console.log("Blocked:", error.violations);
    // [{ type: "prompt_injection", severity: "critical", message: "..." }]
  }
}

Set blockOnViolation: false to log violations without blocking:

const anthropic = wrapAnthropic(new Anthropic(), {
  apiKey: "eg_...",
  blockOnViolation: false,
  onViolation: (result) => {
    analytics.track("guardrail_violation", result);
  },
});

License

MIT