Deliverd Screen
A pre-send check for every prompt. Find and redact personal data, secrets
and your own confidential terms before text goes to an AI model.
- Local. No account, no key, no network call. The text never leaves your
process, unless you turn on the optional Microsoft Purview check, which
sends it to your own Microsoft tenant and nowhere else.
- Reversible. Values become placeholders such as
[EMAIL_1] (the same
value gets the same placeholder throughout), and restore() puts them back
in the model's answer.
- Bring your own model for names. Patterns can't find people's names, but a
model can. Plug in a Hugging Face token classifier, Presidio, or any model
with the same output.
- No dependencies. MIT.
What it finds
Email addresses, phone numbers, IBANs, payment card numbers (Luhn-checked),
UK National Insurance numbers, Irish PPS numbers (check character), US Social
Security numbers, IP addresses (v4 and v6), dates of birth, API keys and tokens
(AWS, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, JWTs and more), private
keys, passwords in connection strings and .env files, words
that mark special-category data such as health or religion, and your own
terms.
The four answers
By default the model may receive internal data and no personal data. Pass
allow: { personalData: true, classification: "confidential" } for a model you
have approved for more.
Names: plug in a model
A detector is a function from the text to { kind, start, end } spans, so any
model works, including Perplexity's PII-Tracer and GLiNER. Check a model's
licence before you ship it. Run it where the text already is: a detector that
sends the text to a hosted service has already sent it.
Vercel AI SDK
The middleware screens the whole conversation at once, so one value keeps one
placeholder across messages. It restores the answer, including a streamed one where a
placeholder arrives split across chunks. On a deny or an ask it throws
ScreenBlockedError and the model is never called. It works with AI SDK 7 by
default; pass specificationVersion: "v3" for AI SDK 6.
CLI, pre-commit and CI
In GitHub Actions, uses: deliverd-dev/deliverd-screen@v0 with paths: runs
the same check; for pre-commit, the hook id is deliverd-screen. Both are in
deliverd-dev/deliverd-screen.
MCP
This gives an agent in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex one tool, screen_text.
It returns the verdict and the redacted text, and never the values it
replaced, so they don't enter the agent's context through the tool.
Microsoft Purview
If your organisation writes its data loss prevention rules in Microsoft
Purview, the same rules can apply here, for any model and any tool. Pass a
Purview check and the stricter answer wins: a Purview block denies, and a warn
is an ask.
This is the one thing in the package that uses the network, and only when you
pass it: the text goes to Microsoft Graph (processContent), in your own
tenant, and nowhere else. The Entra app needs Content.Process.All, and the
DLP rule must be created with New-DlpComplianceRule (Purview does not apply a
portal-only rule to an Entra-registered app).
For the MCP server, set DELIVERD_PURVIEW_TENANT_ID,
DELIVERD_PURVIEW_CLIENT_ID, DELIVERD_PURVIEW_CLIENT_SECRET and
DELIVERD_PURVIEW_USER_ID (and optionally DELIVERD_PURVIEW_ON_UNAVAILABLE:
allow, ask or deny).
A net, not a certificate
Structured identifiers are found well. Names are found only as well as the
model you plug in. Redacted text about a person is still personal data under
GDPR. Use this to send fewer identifiers, never as proof that a prompt was
clean.
When a person has to decide
A library can only tell you to stop. Deliverd's
Data Gate makes the call. deliverd.screen() in @deliverd/sdk runs these
same detectors on your machine and sends Deliverd only the counts ("two email
addresses, one IBAN"). The verdict comes back from your organisation's policy and from what
its AI register approves each model to receive. On an ask it puts the
question to the right person in Slack, Teams or on their phone, and every check is
recorded. It takes the same detectors.
Licence
MIT. The detectors are shared with Deliverd's SDKs and held to one set of test
vectors, packages/conformance/screening.json.