Expanso Pii Redact

What This Skill Does

The Expanso Pii Redact skill, developed by aronchick, provides a robust solution for identifying and masking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within unstructured text. By utilizing the Expanso Edge runtime, this skill scans input data for sensitive entities such as names, social security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers, replacing them with generic placeholders. This ensures that downstream logs, datasets, or communication channels remain compliant with data privacy standards like GDPR and HIPAA.

Installation

To begin using this skill, ensure you have the expanso-edge binary available in your system path. The installation process is streamlined through the OpenClaw ecosystem. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/aronchick/expanso-pii-redact. Once installed, you can trigger the skill via the CLI using expanso-edge run pipeline-cli.yaml or integrate it as an MCP server using pipeline-mcp.yaml for persistent pipeline interactions.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for teams dealing with large volumes of customer support tickets, internal communication logs, or system audit trails. It allows developers to safely share debug logs by automatically stripping sensitive user information before storage. It is also highly effective for businesses preparing data for machine learning training sets where anonymization is a regulatory requirement.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, please run the pii-redact skill on the following log file: [insert log content] to ensure all user emails and phone numbers are scrubbed."
2. "Use the expanso-pii-redact pipeline to process the text from customer-support-ticket-442.txt and output a sanitized version."
3. "Can you help me set up an MCP pipeline with the pii-redact skill so that my incoming chat logs are automatically redacted before they hit our database?"

Tips & Limitations

For best results, ensure your input data is clean and consistently formatted. While this skill is powerful, it is designed for PII detection in standard text formats and may require configuration adjustments for highly proprietary or non-standard data structures. Always verify the output of redacted files before sharing them publicly to ensure no sensitive data points were missed. For automated deployments, utilize the expanso-cli job deploy command to push configurations directly to the Expanso Cloud for enterprise-scale execution.