scrub-ai — VS Code Extension

Shield your prompts. Sanitize sensitive content before sharing with AI assistants.

What it does

Detects and masks sensitive content directly in your editor — automatically, as you work.

🛡️ Secrets — API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys
☁️ Cloud — AWS account IDs, ARNs, GCP project IDs, Azure subscriptions
📡 Network — IP addresses, internal hostnames, internal URLs
🕵️ PII (optional) — emails, phone numbers, person names

Features

Auto-scan on open and save

Every time you open or save a supported file, scrub-ai scans it automatically. Sensitive values are highlighted with yellow squiggly underlines and listed in the Problems panel (Ctrl+Shift+M).

Inline quick-fix

Click the 💡 lightbulb on any flagged line (or press Ctrl+.) to instantly mask the value in-place — no commands needed.

Clipboard watch mode

Runs silently in the background. Every time you copy something, scrub-ai checks it and replaces sensitive content before you paste.

Manual sanitize

Use Ctrl+Alt+S or the Command Palette to sanitize a selection, the active file, or view a diff before applying.

Requirements

Python must be installed with scrub-ai available. Install it inside your environment:

pip install scrub-ai

On Windows with WSL, install inside WSL:

# in WSL terminal
pip install scrub-ai

Usage

Action	How
Auto-scan	Opens automatically on file open / save
Inline fix	Click 💡 lightbulb on a flagged line → `Mask [label]`
Fix all in file	Click 💡 → `Mask all sensitive values in file`
Sanitize selection or file	`Ctrl+Alt+S`
Sanitize via palette	`Ctrl+Shift+P` → `Scrub AI: Sanitize Selection`
Sanitize entire file	`Ctrl+Shift+P` → `Scrub AI: Sanitize File`
View Problems	`Ctrl+Shift+M`

Supported file types

.env .log .txt .yaml .yml .json .toml .ini .config .ts .tsx .js .jsx .py .sh .md .xml .properties .cfg .conf .tf .hcl .sql

Files larger than 500 KB and paths inside node_modules/, .git/, dist/, build/ are skipped.

Platform support

Works on Windows, Linux, and macOS — anywhere Python is available.

scrub-ai

Rajwinder Kaur Marwaha