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Rename rails.tool_output and rails.tool_input to rails.tool_call and rails.tool_result, retaining deprecated compatibility aliases.

Update runtime terminology, telemetry, tests, and documentation.

Updated to also include renaming for the per-tool rails as well, with no compatibility aliases since they're unreleased.

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  • New Features
    • Added canonical tool_call and tool_result rail configuration for tool-call and tool-result validation.
    • Added support for configuring validation flows and parallel processing for both rail types.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved rail processing, streaming events, logging, and telemetry to consistently report tool calls and results.
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    • Updated configuration, guardrail, and telemetry references with the new terminology.
    • Deprecated names remain supported with migration guidance and warnings.

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Renames tool rails to tool_call and tool_result across both engines, per-tool checks, logs, telemetry, examples, and documentation.

  • Tool rails use names that match calls and returned results.
  • Older tool-rail names still work while callers move to the new names.

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The PR renames tool rail categories to tool_call and tool_result. It adds deprecated aliases with migration and conflict validation, updates IORails execution and streaming paths, changes logging and telemetry categories, and updates documentation and tests.

Changes: Tool rail migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical configuration and compatibility
nemoguardrails/rails/llm/config.py, nemoguardrails/rails/llm/options.py, nemoguardrails/manifests/manifest.py, docs/configure-rails/..., tests/rails/llm/*
Canonical tool_call and tool_result fields replace the former names. Deprecated aliases migrate with warnings, remain accessible, and conflict with canonical fields only through validation errors.
Tool-call and tool-result execution
nemoguardrails/guardrails/iorails.py, nemoguardrails/rails/llm/llm_flows.co, nemoguardrails/rails/llm/llmrails.py, tests/guardrails/*, tests/test_*tool*, tests/integrations/langchain/*
Tool-call rails run before tool execution. Tool-result rails run for tool messages. Sequential subflows, generation-option toggles, streaming violations, and related tests use the canonical names.
Logging and telemetry categories
nemoguardrails/logging/processing_log.py, nemoguardrails/guardrails/rails_manager.py, nemoguardrails/telemetry.py, nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/rail.py, tests/test_logging.py, tests/telemetry/*
Rail events, processing records, injection metadata, feature detection, and usage reporting now use tool_call and tool_result. Deprecated events remain mapped to the canonical types.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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Suggested reviewers: tgasser-nv

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This PR renames tool-rail fields and preserves deprecated aliases, but supported Pydantic 2.5 users may not receive compatibility warnings, configuration typos can silently disable tool rails, and documentation currently directs users away from a supported path. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues and the reported lint failure are addressed.

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In `@docs/configure-rails/configuration-reference.mdx`:
- Around line 371-373: Update the tool-rails documentation to remove the claim
that they run only on IORails, since tool_call is supported on LLMRails; retain
the precise IORails-specific behavior about the parallel field, and remove
equivalent IORails-only wording from the companion Tool Calling page.

In `@nemoguardrails/rails/llm/config.py`:
- Around line 566-576: Update both nemoguardrails/rails/llm/config.py lines
566-576 and nemoguardrails/rails/llm/options.py lines 160-170: replace
Field(deprecated=...) with json_schema_extra={"deprecated": True}, and add
explicit alias-access handling that emits deprecation warnings while returning
the corresponding canonical fields. Use the existing ToolCallRails,
ToolResultRails, and related model symbols in each file, preserving
canonical-field access and Pydantic 2.5 compatibility.
- Around line 437-468: Add model_config with ConfigDict(extra="forbid") to both
ToolCallRails and ToolResultRails so unknown configuration keys raise validation
errors instead of being ignored, and add tests covering invalid keys for each
model.

In `@tests/tool_result_rails_actions.py`:
- Around line 34-36: Update the tool_message, tool_name, and tool_call_id
parameter annotations, along with the corresponding parameters at the additional
locations, from implicit nullable str types to Optional[str], preserving their
None defaults and adding or reusing the required Optional import.
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  • docs/configure-rails/configuration-reference.mdx
  • docs/configure-rails/guardrail-catalog/tool-calling.mdx
  • docs/telemetry.mdx
  • nemoguardrails/guardrails/iorails.py
  • nemoguardrails/guardrails/rails_manager.py
  • nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/rail.py
  • nemoguardrails/logging/processing_log.py
  • nemoguardrails/manifests/manifest.py
  • nemoguardrails/rails/llm/config.py
  • nemoguardrails/rails/llm/llm_flows.co
  • nemoguardrails/rails/llm/llmrails.py
  • nemoguardrails/rails/llm/options.py
  • nemoguardrails/telemetry.py
  • tests/guardrails/test_guardrails.py
  • tests/guardrails/test_iorails_generation_log.py
  • tests/guardrails/test_tool_rails_iorails.py
  • tests/integrations/langchain/test_tool_call_rails.py
  • tests/integrations/langchain/test_tool_calls_event_extraction.py
  • tests/rails/llm/test_config.py
  • tests/rails/llm/test_options.py
  • tests/telemetry/test_usage_reporting.py
  • tests/test_logging.py
  • tests/test_tool_call_rails.py
  • tests/test_tool_calls_event_extraction.py
  • tests/test_tool_result_rails.py
  • tests/tool_result_rails_actions.py

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overall PR looks good to me, the naming is now much more intuitive. one minor thing, I noticed schemas/anonymous_events.snapshot.json still uses tool_input and tool_output in description

Comment thread nemoguardrails/rails/llm/options.py
Comment thread nemoguardrails/guardrails/iorails.py
Pouyanpi and others added 4 commits October 14, 2026 17:38
Rename rails.tool_output and rails.tool_input to rails.tool_call and
rails.tool_result, retaining deprecated compatibility aliases.

Update runtime terminology, telemetry, tests, and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pouyanpi <13303554+Pouyanpi@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Pouyanpi <13303554+Pouyanpi@users.noreply.github.com>
… tests

Signed-off-by: Tanushriya Singh <tanushriyas@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tanushriya Singh <tanushriyas@nvidia.com>
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tanushriya910 force-pushed the pouyanpi/tool-call-rails branch from 5545f4c to 5707bab Compare October 15, 2026 06:29
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tanushriya910 force-pushed the pouyanpi/tool-call-rails branch from 5707bab to 79c050e Compare October 15, 2026 07:15
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Thank you @tanushriya910 🚀

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