diff --git a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py
index aafbb8cf40..a86b59daf5 100644
--- a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py
+++ b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from typing import Literal
 import litellm
 from litellm.caching.caching import DualCache
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_user_text
+from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_message_text
 from litellm.integrations.custom_logger import CustomLogger
 from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
 from fastapi import HTTPException
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class _ENTERPRISE_BannedKeywords(CustomLogger):
             self.print_verbose("Inside Banned Keyword List Pre-Call Hook")
             if call_type == "completion":
                 # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-                for text in iter_user_text(data):
+                for text in iter_message_text(data):
                     self.test_violation(test_str=text)
 
         except HTTPException as e:
diff --git a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/google_text_moderation.py b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/google_text_moderation.py
index 75829c41ca..5b2d71c5cc 100644
--- a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/google_text_moderation.py
+++ b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/google_text_moderation.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import litellm
 from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
 from litellm.integrations.custom_logger import CustomLogger
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_user_text
+from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_message_text
 from litellm.types.utils import CallTypesLiteral
 
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class _ENTERPRISE_GoogleTextModeration(CustomLogger):
         - Rejects request if it fails safety check
         """
         # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-        text = "".join(iter_user_text(data))
+        text = "".join(iter_message_text(data))
         if text:
             document = self.language_document(content=text, type_=self.document_type)
 
diff --git a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/openai_moderation.py b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/openai_moderation.py
index a98d5b30d7..2162370804 100644
--- a/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/openai_moderation.py
+++ b/enterprise/enterprise_hooks/openai_moderation.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import litellm
 from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
 from litellm.integrations.custom_logger import CustomLogger
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_user_text
+from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_message_text
 from litellm.types.utils import CallTypesLiteral
 
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class _ENTERPRISE_OpenAI_Moderation(CustomLogger):
         call_type: CallTypesLiteral,
     ):
         # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-        text = "".join(iter_user_text(data))
+        text = "".join(iter_message_text(data))
 
         from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import llm_router
 
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/guardrails/_content_utils.py b/litellm/proxy/guardrails/_content_utils.py
index 97a022768e..576fefe85a 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/guardrails/_content_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/guardrails/_content_utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
-Shared helpers for guardrail hooks: extract user-supplied text from a
-request body regardless of whether it uses Chat Completions ``messages``,
-Responses-API ``input``, or multimodal list-format ``content`` parts.
+Shared helpers for guardrail hooks: extract text from a request body
+regardless of whether it uses Chat Completions ``messages``, Responses-API
+``input``, or multimodal list-format ``content`` parts.
 
 Hooks that only check ``data["messages"]`` for string content silently
 skip the other shapes — these helpers normalise that so every hook sees
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ def _iter_text_parts_in_content(content: Any) -> Iterator[str]:
             yield content
     elif isinstance(content, list):
         for part in content:
+            if isinstance(part, str):
+                # A bare string in a content/input list is itself a text
+                # fragment (Responses-API mixed-list shape).
+                if part:
+                    yield part
+                continue
             if not isinstance(part, dict):
                 continue
             if part.get("type") == "text":
@@ -36,20 +42,13 @@ def _coerce_input_to_messages(input_value: Any) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
             isinstance(item, dict) and "role" in item for item in input_value
         ):
             return list(input_value)
-        if input_value and all(isinstance(item, str) for item in input_value):
-            return [{"role": "user", "content": item} for item in input_value]
+        # Mixed lists (content-part dicts + bare strings) and pure
+        # string/dict lists all become a single user message; the content
+        # iterator below handles each element type uniformly.
         return [{"role": "user", "content": input_value}]
     return []
 
 
-def _resolve_messages(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
-    """Return the messages list to inspect, falling back to ``input``."""
-    messages = data.get("messages")
-    if isinstance(messages, list) and messages:
-        return messages
-    return _coerce_input_to_messages(data.get("input"))
-
-
 def _iter_inspection_messages(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[Dict[str, Any]]:
     """Yield every message-like dict, walking ``messages`` AND ``input``."""
     messages = data.get("messages")
@@ -58,8 +57,12 @@ def _iter_inspection_messages(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[Dict[str, Any]]:
     yield from _coerce_input_to_messages(data.get("input"))
 
 
-def iter_user_text(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[str]:
-    """Yield every user-supplied text fragment from ``messages`` and ``input``."""
+def iter_message_text(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[str]:
+    """Yield every text fragment from ``messages`` AND ``input``.
+
+    Walks every role (user, assistant, system, …) — guardrails inspect
+    the entire conversation, not just user turns.
+    """
     for message in _iter_inspection_messages(data):
         if not isinstance(message, dict):
             continue
@@ -67,7 +70,7 @@ def iter_user_text(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[str]:
 
 
 def walk_user_text(data: Dict[str, Any], visit: Callable[[str], str]) -> int:
-    """Rewrite every user-supplied text fragment in place via ``visit``.
+    """Rewrite every text fragment in place via ``visit``.
 
     Mutates ``data["messages"]`` and ``data["input"]``. Returns the number
     of fragments visited so callers can short-circuit when nothing was
@@ -85,7 +88,10 @@ def walk_user_text(data: Dict[str, Any], visit: Callable[[str], str]) -> int:
         if isinstance(content, list):
             new_parts = []
             for part in content:
-                if (
+                if isinstance(part, str) and part:
+                    visited += 1
+                    new_parts.append(visit(part))
+                elif (
                     isinstance(part, dict)
                     and part.get("type") == "text"
                     and isinstance(part.get("text"), str)
@@ -119,7 +125,7 @@ def walk_user_text(data: Dict[str, Any], visit: Callable[[str], str]) -> int:
                 if "content" in item:
                     item["content"] = _rewrite_content(item["content"])
             return visited
-        # List of content parts or strings: rewrite in place.
+        # List of content parts and/or bare strings: rewrite in place.
         for idx, item in enumerate(input_value):
             if isinstance(item, str) and item:
                 visited += 1
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/guardrails/guardrail_hooks/ibm_guardrails/ibm_detector.py b/litellm/proxy/guardrails/guardrail_hooks/ibm_guardrails/ibm_detector.py
index 435bb383df..36d70a37c7 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/guardrails/guardrail_hooks/ibm_guardrails/ibm_detector.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/guardrails/guardrail_hooks/ibm_guardrails/ibm_detector.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import (
     httpxSpecialProvider,
 )
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_user_text
+from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_message_text
 from litellm.types.guardrails import GuardrailEventHooks
 from litellm.types.proxy.guardrails.guardrail_hooks.ibm import (
     IBMDetectorDetection,
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ class IBMGuardrailDetector(CustomGuardrail):
             return data
 
         # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-        contents_to_check: List[str] = list(iter_user_text(data))
+        contents_to_check: List[str] = list(iter_message_text(data))
         if contents_to_check:
             if self.is_detector_server:
                 # Call detector server with all contents at once
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ class IBMGuardrailDetector(CustomGuardrail):
             return
 
         # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-        contents_to_check: List[str] = list(iter_user_text(data))
+        contents_to_check: List[str] = list(iter_message_text(data))
         if contents_to_check:
             if self.is_detector_server:
                 # Call detector server with all contents at once
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/hooks/azure_content_safety.py b/litellm/proxy/hooks/azure_content_safety.py
index e66ada4208..a21f0566cc 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/hooks/azure_content_safety.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/hooks/azure_content_safety.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
 from litellm.caching.caching import DualCache
 from litellm.integrations.custom_logger import CustomLogger
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
-from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_user_text
+from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import iter_message_text
 
 
 class _PROXY_AzureContentSafety(
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class _PROXY_AzureContentSafety(
         try:
             if call_type == "completion":
                 # Covers multimodal list content + Responses-API input.
-                for text in iter_user_text(data):
+                for text in iter_message_text(data):
                     await self.test_violation(content=text, source="input")
 
         except HTTPException as e:
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/guardrails/test_content_utils.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/guardrails/test_content_utils.py
index 2491363330..e26dc7aa2d 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/guardrails/test_content_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/guardrails/test_content_utils.py
@@ -2,25 +2,25 @@
 
 from litellm.proxy.guardrails._content_utils import (
     build_inspection_messages,
-    iter_user_text,
+    iter_message_text,
     walk_user_text,
 )
 
 
-# ── iter_user_text ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# ── iter_message_text ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_string_messages():
+def test_iter_message_text_string_messages():
     data = {
         "messages": [
             {"role": "user", "content": "hello"},
             {"role": "assistant", "content": "hi"},
         ]
     }
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["hello", "hi"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["hello", "hi"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_multimodal_list_content():
+def test_iter_message_text_multimodal_list_content():
     """VERIA-11: list-format content must be inspected, not silently skipped."""
     data = {
         "messages": [
@@ -34,26 +34,26 @@ def test_iter_user_text_multimodal_list_content():
             }
         ]
     }
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["AWS_KEY=AKIA...", "more secrets"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["AWS_KEY=AKIA...", "more secrets"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_responses_api_string_input():
+def test_iter_message_text_responses_api_string_input():
     """fniVO9-F: Responses-API ``input`` must be inspectable when ``messages`` absent."""
     data = {"input": "tell me a secret"}
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["tell me a secret"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["tell me a secret"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_responses_api_list_input_messages():
+def test_iter_message_text_responses_api_list_input_messages():
     data = {
         "input": [
             {"role": "user", "content": "first"},
             {"role": "user", "content": "second"},
         ]
     }
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["first", "second"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["first", "second"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_responses_api_list_input_content_parts():
+def test_iter_message_text_responses_api_list_input_content_parts():
     data = {
         "input": [
             {"type": "text", "text": "alpha"},
@@ -61,23 +61,42 @@ def test_iter_user_text_responses_api_list_input_content_parts():
             {"type": "text", "text": "beta"},
         ]
     }
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["alpha", "beta"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["alpha", "beta"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_walks_messages_and_input_independently():
+def test_iter_message_text_responses_api_list_input_mixed_dicts_and_strings():
+    """Greptile P2: mixed-list ``input`` with content-part dicts AND bare
+    strings must yield every text fragment — read helpers used to truncate
+    the bare strings."""
+    data = {
+        "input": [
+            {"type": "text", "text": "from-dict"},
+            "from-bare-string",
+            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "..."}},
+            "another-bare-string",
+        ]
+    }
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == [
+        "from-dict",
+        "from-bare-string",
+        "another-bare-string",
+    ]
+
+
+def test_iter_message_text_walks_messages_and_input_independently():
     """When both are present (rare), every fragment from either field is
     inspected — a stricter guarantee than "first one wins"."""
     data = {
         "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "msg-content"}],
         "input": "input-content",
     }
-    assert list(iter_user_text(data)) == ["msg-content", "input-content"]
+    assert list(iter_message_text(data)) == ["msg-content", "input-content"]
 
 
-def test_iter_user_text_empty_data():
-    assert list(iter_user_text({})) == []
-    assert list(iter_user_text({"messages": []})) == []
-    assert list(iter_user_text({"input": ""})) == []
+def test_iter_message_text_empty_data():
+    assert list(iter_message_text({})) == []
+    assert list(iter_message_text({"messages": []})) == []
+    assert list(iter_message_text({"input": ""})) == []
 
 
 # ── walk_user_text ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -139,6 +158,23 @@ def test_walk_user_text_redacts_responses_api_list_input():
     assert data["input"][1] == {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "..."}}
 
 
+def test_walk_user_text_redacts_mixed_list_input():
+    """Read and write helpers must agree on coverage — bare strings inside
+    a mixed ``input`` list are inspected by both."""
+    data = {
+        "input": [
+            {"type": "text", "text": "secret-one"},
+            "secret-two",
+            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "..."}},
+        ]
+    }
+    visited = walk_user_text(data, lambda s: f"<{s}>")
+    assert visited == 2
+    assert data["input"][0] == {"type": "text", "text": "<secret-one>"}
+    assert data["input"][1] == "<secret-two>"
+    assert data["input"][2] == {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "..."}}
+
+
 # ── build_inspection_messages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────