Why We Open-Sourced Our AI Safety Layer When we built the AI safety layer for As You Wish (AYW), we faced a choice: keep it proprietary or open-source it to help the community. Here's why we chose the latter (and why it made our platform stronger). The Problem: AI Safety is Hard (And Everyone's Reinventing the Wheel) If you're building AI-assisted development tools, you need: Input validation (sanitizing prompts, preventing injection) Output filtering (catching unsafe code, biased responses) Audit logging (tracking every AI decision) Human approval workflows (gating risky operations) Transparency layers (explaining WHY the AI made a decision) We spent 8 months building this. Then we realized: every AI tool builder is solving the same problems . Our Decision: Open-Source the Safety Layer Six months ago, we open-sourced our AI safety layer at github.com/ayw-ai/safety-layer .…