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Secret Guard: local LLM gateway that replaces secrets before they reach the provider

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Source:Hacker News
Open-source tool (Rust) acting as a local gateway: it swaps outbound secrets with equal-length realistic mocks and restores them on the way back, so the LLM never touches a real value. One-line integration. Needs primary-source verification.
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