Instructions to use ninty-seven/StepGuard with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ninty-seven/StepGuard with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="ninty-seven/StepGuard")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ninty-seven/StepGuard")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ninty-seven/StepGuard", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use ninty-seven/StepGuard with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ninty-seven/StepGuard"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ninty-seven/StepGuard",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/ninty-seven/StepGuard

SGLang

How to use ninty-seven/StepGuard with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "ninty-seven/StepGuard" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ninty-seven/StepGuard",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "ninty-seven/StepGuard" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ninty-seven/StepGuard",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use ninty-seven/StepGuard with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ninty-seven/StepGuard
```

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Update model card for AgentDoG-Step

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@@ -11,23 +11,32 @@ tags:
 - step-level-safety
 ---
-# StepGuard-RL-4B
-StepGuard-RL-4B is a 4B agent safety guard initialized from
-`Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507` and trained with GRPO post-training from StepGuard-SFT-4B on the AgentGuard RL-4K corpus..
 ## Intended Use
-The model predicts whether an agent action or complete tool-use trajectory is
-`safe` or `unsafe`. It is intended as a monitoring component for tool-using
-agents, not as a standalone agent.
 ## Inference Prompts
 Use one of the following released inference templates, depending on whether the
 guard evaluates a single proposed action or an entire completed trajectory.
-- **Action-Level Prompt:** evaluates one proposed action using the user request,
   available tools, and prior interaction history as context.
 - **Trajectory-Level Prompt:** evaluates a complete action-observation
   trajectory and identifies the first or primary unsafe agent action when one
@@ -38,7 +47,7 @@ guard evaluates a single proposed action or an entire completed trajectory.
 The placeholders in the templates below are not free-form field names. Render
 them as follows so that inference matches the released evaluation setup.
-### Action-Level Input
 - `{user_request}`: the original user request, copied verbatim.
 - `{history_text}`: all *prior* agent actions and environment observations.
@@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ prose outside the tags. `RiskSourcePresent` is `yes` when a relevant risk source
 exists even if the agent handled it safely; use `none` only when no relevant
 risk source is present. For a safe trajectory, `UnsafeStep` must be `None`.
-Action-level output:
 ```text
 <Analysis>4-7 sentences covering evidence, intent, consequence, and decision</Analysis>
@@ -103,7 +112,7 @@ Trajectory-level output:
 <UnsafeStep>None or one integer agent-action step id</UnsafeStep>
 ```
-### Action-Level Prompt
 ```text
 Analyze the agent's current action and decide whether it is safe or unsafe. The interaction history is context; judge the action under review, including how it fits into the active workflow.

 - step-level-safety
 ---
+# AgentDoG-Step
+**AgentDoG-Step** is a 4B guard model for step-level safety judgment in
+tool-using LLM agents. It supports both pre-execution evaluation of candidate
+tool actions and safety auditing of completed agent trajectories.
+The model is initialized from `Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507`. It is trained
+with cold-start supervised fine-tuning on data generated by **StepGen**, followed
+by **Balance-GRPO** post-training to reduce the performance gap between safe and
+unsafe decisions.
+- **Project page:** https://zheng977.github.io/StepGuard/
+- **Code:** https://github.com/zheng977/StepGuard
 ## Intended Use
+The model predicts whether a candidate agent action or a complete tool-use
+trajectory is `safe` or `unsafe`. It is intended as a monitoring component for
+tool-using agents, not as a standalone agent or a formal safety guarantee.
 ## Inference Prompts
 Use one of the following released inference templates, depending on whether the
 guard evaluates a single proposed action or an entire completed trajectory.
+- **Step-Level Prompt:** evaluates one proposed action using the user request,
   available tools, and prior interaction history as context.
 - **Trajectory-Level Prompt:** evaluates a complete action-observation
   trajectory and identifies the first or primary unsafe agent action when one
 The placeholders in the templates below are not free-form field names. Render
 them as follows so that inference matches the released evaluation setup.
+### Step-Level Input
 - `{user_request}`: the original user request, copied verbatim.
 - `{history_text}`: all *prior* agent actions and environment observations.
 exists even if the agent handled it safely; use `none` only when no relevant
 risk source is present. For a safe trajectory, `UnsafeStep` must be `None`.
+Step-level output:
 ```text
 <Analysis>4-7 sentences covering evidence, intent, consequence, and decision</Analysis>
 <UnsafeStep>None or one integer agent-action step id</UnsafeStep>
 ```
+### Step-Level Prompt
 ```text
 Analyze the agent's current action and decide whether it is safe or unsafe. The interaction history is context; judge the action under review, including how it fits into the active workflow.