docs: add Contributing to Guardrails section to Guardrail Providers sidebar

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Relevant issues

Restores missing guardrails documentation links as reported by team.

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Type

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Changes

The guardrails contribution documentation existed but was only accessible from the "LiteLLM AI Gateway" tutorial sidebar. When users browsed the "Guardrail Providers" section (shown in integrationsSidebar), they couldn't see these important docs.

This PR adds the following to the "Guardrail Providers" category in integrationsSidebar:

1. Contributing to Guardrails subcategory with links to:

   • Generic Guardrail API (integrate without PR)
   • Adding a New Guardrail Integration tutorial
   • Adding Guardrail Support to Endpoints

2. Team Bring-Your-Own Guardrails link for the team BYOG workflow documentation

Now users browsing guardrail providers can easily discover how to contribute their own guardrails or set up team-based BYOG workflows.

Before

The "Guardrail Providers" section only showed provider-specific docs (Aim Security, Aporia, etc.) with no links to contribution guides.

After

The "Guardrail Providers" section now includes:

• "Contributing to Guardrails" subcategory at the top
• "Team Bring-Your-Own Guardrails" documentation link
• All existing provider docs

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Greptile Summary

This is a documentation-only PR that restores discoverability of guardrail contribution guides by adding them to the integrationsSidebar "Guardrail Providers" category in sidebars.js. Previously these pages were only reachable from the "LiteLLM AI Gateway" tutorial sidebar.

• Adds a "Contributing to Guardrails" subcategory containing adding_provider/generic_guardrail_api, adding_provider/simple_guardrail_tutorial, and adding_provider/adding_guardrail_support — all three files exist on disk.
• Adds a "Team Bring-Your-Own Guardrails" doc entry pointing to proxy/guardrails/team_based_guardrails — file exists on disk.
• No code, tests, or runtime behaviour is changed; the modification is confined to the Docusaurus sidebar configuration.

Confidence Score: 5/5

• This PR is safe to merge — it is a purely additive, documentation-only sidebar configuration change.
• All four referenced documentation files already exist in the repository. The added sidebar entries follow the existing Docusaurus patterns used throughout the file. No runtime code, tests, or APIs are touched.
• No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
docs/my-website/sidebars.js	Adds "Contributing to Guardrails" subcategory and "Team Bring-Your-Own Guardrails" link to the integrationsSidebar's "Guardrail Providers" section; all referenced doc files exist and the structure is valid.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[integrationsSidebar] --> B[Guardrail Providers]
    B --> C[Contributing to Guardrails\n**NEW**]
    C --> C1[Generic Guardrail API\nadding_provider/generic_guardrail_api]
    C --> C2[Adding a New Guardrail Integration\nadding_provider/simple_guardrail_tutorial]
    C --> C3[Adding Guardrail Support to Endpoints\nadding_provider/adding_guardrail_support]
    B --> D[Team Bring-Your-Own Guardrails\n**NEW** proxy/guardrails/team_based_guardrails]
    B --> E[Provider Docs\nqualifire, aim_security, aporia, ...\nsorted alphabetically]

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