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# Redacting credentials and personal data from outbound prompts

Scrub sensitive tokens, email addresses, and names before sharing snippets with external tools

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askReceive raw snippet or prompt
- ThenDetect and mask sensitive values
- ResultPresent sanitized draft for review

Engineers frequently paste application logs, error traces, and configuration blocks containing embedded secrets or personal identifiers into online prompts. This workflow reviews draft inputs, identifies sensitive values such as API keys and email addresses, and produces sanitized copies with clear token replacements.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Scan submitted text, logs, and code snippets for sensitive items like API keys, tokens, email addresses, and personal names. Substitute each matched element with clear placeholders such as [REDACTED_SECRET] or [REDACTED_EMAIL]. Provide a list of the categories removed alongside the clean text. Always wait for explicit user approval before transmitting or pasting any text into external services.
```

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## Tools it uses

ChatNotesBrowser

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- security
- sanitization
- credentials
- compliance

## Source

[Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206591)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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