---
name: undominated-guardrail-latency-tax-audit
description: Measures the TTFT penalty and token inflation imposed by input and output safety moderation guardrail layers.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Undominated.ai
  version: "1.0.0"
  tags: ["guardrails", "safety", "ttft", "latency-tax", "moderation"]
---

# Guardrail Latency Overhead Audit

Measures the TTFT penalty and token inflation imposed by input and output safety moderation guardrail layers.

## When to Use
Deploy when auditing the user-facing latency impact of Llama Guard or enterprise safety filters.

## Limitations
Measures synchronous guardrail configurations; asynchronous streaming guardrails require separate event analysis.

## Verification Script
Run the deterministic stdlib checker:
```bash
python3 scripts/check.py examples/synthetic.json
```
Exits `0` on verified pass, `1` on failed assertion, `2` on malformed input.