PII Pattern Guard

Overview

You pass text; we check it against a fixed set of PII pattern detectors (email, phone, credit card with Luhn, IP, IBAN) and fail when any match, so you can gate publishing, logging, or sharing. A pass means no supported detector matched — not proof the text is free of all PII (names, addresses, and context-dependent identifiers are out of scope). We return counts only, never the located values. Do not use this to mask PII — use text.mask_pii. Accepts file input via file_ref — no need to extract file content first.

You need a deterministic gate that refuses to proceed when content still contains PII, with a machine-readable path to fix it (redaction) rather than a vague warning.

When to use it

Scope

Non-goals

• Does not mask or redact PII — use text.mask_pii for that (the recovery path)
• Not exhaustive — regex-based, may miss context-dependent PII like names/addresses
• Does not use ML/NER; not a legal-compliance certification mechanism

Properties

Capabilities

Cost & billing

Flat rate per invocation

File handling

File limits

Constraints this skill applies to your input and generated files. The “Limited by” column shows the static source of each cap; none of these can be raised by upgrading your plan.

How we handle your data

Input schema

Output schema

API contract

curl -sS -X POST "$BASE/v1/execute" -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"skillKey":"text.assert_pii_free","input":{"text":"The quarterly report is ready."}}'

import { Squillify } from "@squillify/sdk";

const sq = new Squillify({ apiKey: process.env.SQUILLIFY_API_KEY });

const { output } = await sq.execute("text.assert_pii_free", {"text":"The quarterly report is ready for review."});

Errors

Other limits

Limitations

• Does not mask or redact PII — use text.mask_pii for that (the recovery path)
• Not exhaustive — regex-based, may miss context-dependent PII like names/addresses
• Does not use ML/NER; not a legal-compliance certification mechanism
• Removing/masking PII — use text.mask_pii
• Compliance-grade or NER-based PII detection
• Detecting names/addresses without recognizable patterns

How to call

POST /v1/execute (requires authentication)

{
  "skillKey": "text.assert_pii_free",
  "input": {
    "text": "The quarterly report is ready for review."
  }
}

Examples

{
  "text": "The quarterly report is ready for review."
}

{
  "countsByType": {},
  "piiFree": true,
  "detectionCount": 0
}

{
  "detectors": [
    "EMAIL",
    "PHONE"
  ],
  "text": "Contact [EMAIL] for details, or ring [PHONE]."
}

{
  "countsByType": {},
  "piiFree": true,
  "detectionCount": 0
}

Recommended use cases

• Gate outbound content on 'no PII present' before publishing or third-party sharing
• Pre-flight check in a pipeline that must not log identifiable data
• Assert redaction succeeded by re-checking masked output

Avoid for

• Removing/masking PII — use text.mask_pii
• Compliance-grade or NER-based PII detection
• Detecting names/addresses without recognizable patterns

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Safety & privacy

• Runs without calling any external service.
• Your payloads are never stored permanently.
• Telemetry captures metadata only — never your payload contents.
• We never train models on your payloads.
• No human reviews your payloads.

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