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POST
/
api
/
v1
/
overlays
/
apply
Apply Overlay Endpoint
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "<string>",
  "delta": {
    "detection_levels": {},
    "toxicity_threshold": 0.5,
    "add_custom_patterns": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "add_blocked_domains": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "guardrails": {}
  },
  "project_id": "<string>",
  "acknowledge_loosening": false
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply"

payload = {
"name": "<string>",
"delta": {
"detection_levels": {},
"toxicity_threshold": 0.5,
"add_custom_patterns": ["<string>"],
"add_blocked_domains": ["<string>"],
"guardrails": {}
},
"project_id": "<string>",
"acknowledge_loosening": False
}
headers = {
"X-API-Key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
name: '<string>',
delta: {
detection_levels: {},
toxicity_threshold: 0.5,
add_custom_patterns: ['<string>'],
add_blocked_domains: ['<string>'],
guardrails: {}
},
project_id: '<string>',
acknowledge_loosening: false
})
};

fetch('https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'name' => '<string>',
'delta' => [
'detection_levels' => [

],
'toxicity_threshold' => 0.5,
'add_custom_patterns' => [
'<string>'
],
'add_blocked_domains' => [
'<string>'
],
'guardrails' => [

]
],
'project_id' => '<string>',
'acknowledge_loosening' => false
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"X-API-Key: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"delta\": {\n \"detection_levels\": {},\n \"toxicity_threshold\": 0.5,\n \"add_custom_patterns\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"add_blocked_domains\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"guardrails\": {}\n },\n \"project_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"acknowledge_loosening\": false\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply")
.header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"delta\": {\n \"detection_levels\": {},\n \"toxicity_threshold\": 0.5,\n \"add_custom_patterns\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"add_blocked_domains\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"guardrails\": {}\n },\n \"project_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"acknowledge_loosening\": false\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.promptguard.co/api/v1/overlays/apply")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"delta\": {\n \"detection_levels\": {},\n \"toxicity_threshold\": 0.5,\n \"add_custom_patterns\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"add_blocked_domains\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"guardrails\": {}\n },\n \"project_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"acknowledge_loosening\": false\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "version": 123,
  "status": "<string>",
  "project_id": "<string>",
  "warnings": [
    {
      "kind": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}
{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>",
"input": "<unknown>",
"ctx": {}
}
]
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

PromptGuard API key for developer endpoints. Keys start with pg_live_ and are created in the dashboard.

Body

application/json
name
string
required
Required string length: 1 - 120
delta
OverlayDelta · object
required

Additive deltas over a base policy config.

Everything here is meant to tighten. Loosening ops (raising a threshold, dropping a detection level toward permissive, disabling a guardrail) are permitted to be expressed but are flagged as warnings in the diff.

project_id
string | null
acknowledge_loosening
boolean
default:false

Response

Successful Response

id
string
required
name
string
required
version
integer
required
status
string
required
project_id
string | null
required
warnings
OverlayWarningOut · object[]
required