Show HN: Cloakroom – Keeps secrets away from agents
Cloakroom is an open-source privacy tool that masks secrets and sensitive data from AI agents. It swaps real values for placeholders, then swaps them back to the originals locally. I was trying to build a full on local LLM setup on my machine, but the local models were not up to the mark (at least, not yet). I ended up building a hybrid setup, with the cloud for planning and local models for execution. I realized I needed a privacy layer so cloud models could not access sensitive data, and I bui
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Repository: shanjeevrajendran/cloakroom. Source account: Cloakroom is an open-source privacy tool that masks secrets and sensitive data from AI agents. It swaps real values for placeholders, then swaps them back to the originals locally. I was trying to build a full on local LLM setup on my machine, but the local models were not up to the mark (at least, not yet). I ended up building a hybrid setup, with the cloud for planning and local models for execution. I realized I needed a privacy layer so cloud models could not access sensitive data, and I bui
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