Check Pii — Development skill for Claude Code
/check-pii — Check text for PII and redact.
How to install Check Pii
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/maxwellcalkin-sentinel-ai-check-pii/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/maxwellcalkin-sentinel-ai-check-pii && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MaxwellCalkin/sentinel-ai/HEAD/commands/check-pii.md -o ~/.claude/skills/maxwellcalkin-sentinel-ai-check-pii/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Check Pii does
/check-pii — Check text for PII and redact
Check text or a file for personally identifiable information and show the redacted version.
Usage
/check-pii
Behavior
Use the Sentinel AI `check_pii` MCP tool to:
- Scan the provided text for PII (emails, SSNs, credit cards, phone numbers, API keys, tokens)
- Report what PII types were found
- Show the redacted version with PII replaced by labels like [EMAIL], [SSN], [CREDIT_CARD]
If a file path is provided instead o
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