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Masking sensitive values produces placeholders and consumes tokens, and excessive masking may remove the clues the model needs to complete the task, causing the agent to retry repeatedly and raising costs, so a trade-off between privacy protection and task success rate is needed.
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10/18/2026
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shim-cli: A Privacy Guardrail for AI Coding Agents
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