---
title: "Approve Guardrail Submission"
method: POST
path: "/guardrails/submissions/{guardrail_id}/approve"
tags: ["Guardrails"]
---

# Approve Guardrail Submission

`POST /guardrails/submissions/{guardrail_id}/approve`

Approve a pending guardrail submission: set status to active and initialize in memory (admin only).

## Path parameters

- `guardrail_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-09-21** `6246f8d427b7` — 2 info
  - api tag `Guardrails` added
  - api tag `guardrails` removed
- **2026-09-19** `c357baf422ab` — 2 info
  - api tag `guardrails` added
  - api tag `Guardrails` removed
- **2026-09-18** `082b5fabd909` — 4 info
  - api tag `Guardrails` added
  - api tag `guardrails` removed
  - added the optional property `detail/items/ctx` to the response with the `422` status
  - added the optional property `detail/items/input` to the response with the `422` status
- **2026-09-17** `e2f308355e2d` — 2 info
  - api tag `guardrails` added
  - api tag `Guardrails` removed
- **2026-09-01** `89805a9f84ad` — 2 info
  - api tag `Guardrails` added
  - api tag `guardrails` removed

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/flock/apis/litellm-api/changes/guardrails/submissions/:guardrail_id/approve/post.md)

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