{"slug": "show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents", "title": "Show HN: Cloakroom – Keeps secrets away from agents", "summary": "An open-source privacy tool called Cloakroom was released to mask secrets and sensitive data from AI agents by swapping real values for placeholders and restoring the originals locally. The developer built Cloakroom after adopting a hybrid setup with cloud models for planning and local models for execution, and said a privacy layer was needed so cloud models could not access sensitive data. Cloakroom runs locally, is cross-platform, and works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.", "body_md": "Cloakroom is an open-source privacy tool that masks secrets and sensitive data from AI agents. It swaps real values for placeholders, then swaps them back to the originals locally.\n\nI was trying to build a full on local LLM setup on my machine, but the local models were not up to the mark (at least, not yet). I ended up building a hybrid setup, with the cloud for planning and local models for execution. I realized I needed a privacy layer so cloud models could not access sensitive data, and I built Cloakroom.\n\nIt runs on your machine, it’s cross-platform, and it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50446007](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50446007)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/shanjeevrajendran/cloakroom", "published_at": "2026-11-10 20:39:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-10 20:54:16.349618+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-safety", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Cloakroom", "Claude Code", "Cursor", "Gemini CLI", "Codex CLI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-cloakroom-keeps-secrets-away-from-agents.jsonld"}}