SMRTR ProgrammingJul 22, 2026Hacker News

Flare Redact – zero-dependency secret and PII redaction for Node.js

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flare-redact is a zero-dependency JavaScript library that scans actual values — not just field names — to catch leaked secrets, tokens, and PII in logs, prompts, and text before they spread. It supports reversible redaction via encrypted vaults, wraps OpenAI and Anthropic clients to strip secrets from LLM prompts, and recognizes sensitive keywords across 24 languages with checksum-validated national ID detection built in.

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