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I almost pasted my AWS key into ChatGPT, so I built a goblin to stop me

A developer built LeakGoblin, a free, local-only command-line tool that scans and redacts API keys, tokens and passwords before text is pasted into AI tools. The tool was created after the developer nearly pasted an AWS key into ChatGPT.

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I almost pasted my AWS key into ChatGPT, so I built a goblin to stop me
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LeakGoblin is a free, local-only CLI that scans and redacts API keys, tokens and passwords before you paste text into AI tools. Here's why I built it and how it works.

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dev.to — original article 89 of 190 reviewer subagents graded their own model's work. A PreToolUse hook has blocked 7 since; one walked around it A Score Upload Needs More Than an Accept Attribute The Human-Machine Boundary: Graceful Degradation for Manual Naked Positions in AI Trading Systems
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