TrustGate is designed with extensibility in mind, allowing teams to tailor its behavior and enhance its capabilities to fit specific use cases. Whether you’re integrating with third-party services, enforcing custom policies, or contributing new features, TrustGate offers multiple ways to extend its core functionality.

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Extending TrustGate

There are two primary ways to extend TrustGate:

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1. Integrate External APIs

You can extend the behavior of TrustGate by connecting it with external systems or services. These integrations can be used to:

  • Perform real-time validations or enrichments
  • Forward content for external moderation or analysis
  • Log events to custom monitoring tools
  • Trigger workflows or business logic in your own backend

These integrations are added declaratively to the gateway configuration and are executed at specific stages of the request/response lifecycle (e.g., pre-request or post-response). This allows for powerful, low-friction extensions without modifying TrustGate’s internal codebase.

While these integrations behave similarly to plugins, they are externally managed and do not require writing code within the gateway itself.

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2. Write Custom Plugins

For advanced scenarios that require direct execution inside TrustGate, you can implement and register custom plugins. These are executed natively by the gateway and have access to full request/response context, making them ideal for:

  • Deep input/output inspection
  • Performance-sensitive operations
  • Custom authentication or authorization logic
  • Inline transformations or filtering

TrustGate provides a structured plugin interface for writing, testing, and registering your own components. These plugins can then be deployed and reused across multiple gateways.

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Contribute to the Project

TrustGate is open to community contributions. If you’ve built a useful extension, fixed a bug, or added support for a new feature, you’re encouraged to contribute directly to the codebase.

  • Fork the repository
  • Submit a pull request
  • Follow the contribution guidelines

By contributing, you help improve TrustGate for the broader AI and API security community.

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