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Local-first prompt sanitizer and safe de-redactor vault workspace.

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QUICK START ONBOARDING WORKSPACE GUIDE

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Paste raw prompts

Copy-paste code blocks, database credentials, emails, or stack traces into the stream input panel.

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Scrub credentials

Tap Execute Redaction. Active regex modules extract sensitive information into local browser-memory dictionaries.

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Query AI systems

Copy-paste the sanitized string safely to external AI chat models without violating compliance.

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Restore AI output

Paste the AI's reply back in the De-Redact Vault to instantly sub back original credentials.

Sanitize Code & Redact Secrets Before Pasting to ChatGPTThe free, privacy-first client-side tool that scrubs API keys, passwords, and PII from your prompts — so nothing sensitive ever reaches AI models.

LOCAL-FIRST PRIVACY SHIELD

Securing Developer Prompts & Sanitizing Stack Trace Log Data

Modern developers regularly copy and paste error logs, environment configurations, and stack traces into generative AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini. When troubleshooting complex codebase issues, this friction-free workflow frequently results in inadvertent secret leakage, exposing critical cloud access keys.

Database connection URIs, OAuth tokens, personal identifiers (PII), and internal hostnames represent high-risk vectors. Traditional cloud-based scanners are slow and introduce additional transmission risks, but a local data loss prevention for AI utility creates an instant, serverless boundary.

By sanitizing logs before sharing, engineers can paste code into ChatGPT safely. ScrubBeforeAI runs entirely client-side inside your browser memory, ensuring your raw credentials never touch an external server or database.

ScrubBeforeAI serves as a powerful log privacy proxy and client-side log scrubber. It detects hardcoded secrets in logs using an advanced priority-sorted regex pattern matching engine, substituting them with secure, incremented placeholders.

When your LLM generates its response utilizing those placeholders, you simply paste the text back into the un-redact console. The local key-value reversal map restores your original variables in a single click, keeping your workflows unified and completely safe.

Using client-side data masking, teams can easily remove api keys from stack trace streams, protect intellectual property, and satisfy compliance standards (like SOC2, GDPR, and HIPAA) without interrupting engineering velocity.

SCRUBBER ENGINE: LOCAL DATA FLOW INTERCEPT
1. Scan & Redact

Scans stack traces locally. Replaces AWS credentials, database URIs, and PII with safe tokens.

2. Interact Safely

You paste placeholder prompts into ChatGPT. Raw values remain securely mapped in local memory.

3. Reverse Map

Paste AI output back into the browser. Local decrypt mode seamlessly restores original credentials.

FAQ STATION

Frequently Asked Questions & Security Guardrails

Answers to technical queries regarding client-side data masking, LLM training prevention, and offline browser integrations.

Security & Privacy

How does ScrubBeforeAI hide API keys from ChatGPT?

ScrubBeforeAI replaces your raw API keys and secrets with safe, local placeholders (like [SCRUB_KEY_1]) before you copy them. After ChatGPT processes the prompt, you simply paste the response back into our tool to restore the original keys locally, keeping them completely hidden from ChatGPT's history.

How can I avoid sensitive data being part of LLM training data?

The best way to avoid sensitive data being part of LLM training datasets is to mask it before sending it. ScrubBeforeAI replaces real credentials and PII with placeholder tokens locally in your browser. Since the actual values never leave your machine, they can never be uploaded or ingested into LLM training logs.

How does ScrubBeforeAI scrub logs of PII locally?

All text parsing and redaction in ScrubBeforeAI is performed locally inside your browser's sandboxed context using native Web RegExp. No text is ever uploaded to a server, providing a 100% private and secure way to scrub logs of PII locally.

How does ScrubBeforeAI help in stopping GenAI data leaks at work?

ScrubBeforeAI helps in stopping GenAI data leaks at work by providing developers with a frictionless, client-side boundary to sanitize prompts before they reach public AI services. It acts as an instant local privacy boundary to prevent key leakages and compliance violations.

Is it safe to paste code into ChatGPT?

It is generally unsafe to paste raw code into ChatGPT if it contains proprietary secrets or credentials, as standard chat history may be reviewed by human moderators or utilized for AI model training. It is only safe if you first sanitize your code of credentials and sensitive URLs.

How does ScrubBeforeAI address ChatGPT data privacy for code?

ScrubBeforeAI addresses ChatGPT data privacy for code by ensuring that ChatGPT never receives your real API keys, passwords, or IP addresses. Instead, ChatGPT only sees the placeholder tokens, preserving your privacy regardless of ChatGPT's data retention policies.

How do I prevent leaking credentials to AI models?

To prevent leaking credentials to AI models, you should run your code and configurations through ScrubBeforeAI's local scanner. The tool filters out AWS keys, GCP keys, passwords, and private tokens, replacing them with secure placeholders.

Tool Usage

How do I sanitize code before pasting to ChatGPT?

You can sanitize code by pasting it into ScrubBeforeAI first. The tool scans your code client-side using JavaScript RegExp and swaps out credentials, connection strings, and server endpoints for numbered placeholders, ensuring your raw code is safe before pasting to ChatGPT.

How does ScrubBeforeAI remove secrets from a stack trace?

ScrubBeforeAI analyzes stack traces and logs to identify database connection URIs, access tokens, and environment variables. It removes these secrets from the stack trace and replaces them with standardized tags, preserving the debugging context while protecting your infrastructure credentials.

How do I remove sensitive info from logs before ChatGPT?

Paste your application logs into the ScrubBeforeAI redact panel. The tool automatically detects sensitive fields—such as emails, tokens, environment variables, and passwords—and replaces them with secure tags, allowing you to debug logs in ChatGPT securely.

How can I anonymize code for ChatGPT?

You can anonymize code for ChatGPT by replacing sensitive parameters and tokens with matching placeholder tags. ScrubBeforeAI automates this by providing a dual-panel interface to redact code snippets before pasting, and reverse-map the AI's output back to its original form afterwards.

How does ScrubBeforeAI mask sensitive data for LLMs?

ScrubBeforeAI masks sensitive data for LLMs by replacing it with customized, numbered placeholders. Once the LLM generates a response using those placeholders, our un-redact panel maps the placeholders back to your original secrets locally in one click.

Local Architecture

Is ScrubBeforeAI a secure client-side tool to redact logs for LLMs?

Yes, ScrubBeforeAI is a completely private, serverless web utility designed to redact logs for LLMs. It is built with Astro and React, runs entirely client-side, and operates inside a local sandbox in your web browser.

Does ScrubBeforeAI perform local PII detection in the browser?

Yes, ScrubBeforeAI performs local PII detection in the browser. Using local regex libraries, it identifies IP addresses, emails, credit card details, and credentials directly in memory, showing you exactly what sensitive data was caught via interactive UI toggles.

How does this client-side text redaction tool protect my data?

As a client-side text redaction tool, ScrubBeforeAI stores the mapping between original values and placeholders in temporary sessionStorage and in-memory React state. Because there is no backend server or database, your sensitive data never leaves your local browser session.

Does ScrubBeforeAI work offline?

Yes. ScrubBeforeAI is built as a Progressive Web App (PWA). Once loaded, it installs a cache-first service worker that caches all layouts, pages, styles, and fonts locally. You can disconnect from the internet and continue using the redactor, unredactor, file scanner, and custom rules completely offline.