redacta-cli

Command-line redaction: pseudonymise patient identifiers and PII in text — and restore them — with a HIPAA Safe Harbor mode. Runs locally, no network.

npx redacta-cli letter.txt --safe-harbor
# or install it
npm i -g redacta-cli

Usage

redacta-cli [redact] [file] [options]       # redact a file or stdin
redacta-cli reinstate [file] --map <file>   # restore originals from a token map

Redact options:

| Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --mode <m> | clinical | general | both | safeharbor (default: both) | | --safe-harbor | shorthand for --mode safeharbor (HIPAA Safe Harbor) | | --text-only | print just the redacted text (no JSON) | | --map-out <file> | also write the token map to <file> |

Reads stdin when no file is given.

Examples

# Redact a letter, strict US HIPAA Safe Harbor
redacta-cli letter.txt --safe-harbor

# Pipe text, get just the safe version
cat note.txt | redacta-cli --text-only

# Redact to a file and keep the key for later
redacta-cli letter.txt --map-out map.json --text-only > safe.txt

# …run safe.txt through an AI tool, then restore the originals locally
redacta-cli reinstate ai-output.txt --map map.json --text-only

Same engine as the Redacta skill, MCP server and library. Deterministic + keyword-anchored detection — review the result; not a substitute for formal data-protection processes.

License

MIT-0. Built by PharmaTools.AI.