What Is Redaction?
Redaction is a Data Protector capability. When someone pastes content into a supported AI tool, Data Protector analyses the pasted text on the device and removes anything that matches the categories you protect, then lets the person decide how to proceed. The sensitive content is stripped before it reaches the AI service. Because the analysis runs locally, this is different from a normal assessment: the pasted content is never sent to Velatir. The sensitive content stays out of the AI service without the paste becoming a dead end.Redaction is in beta and, for now, applies to pasted content in supported AI tools. It builds on the Clipboard assessment capability and takes effect only when the Data Protector is an Enforcer. It runs through Velatir for Desktop and the browser extension.
How It Works
Someone pastes
A user pastes text into a supported AI tool in the browser.
Velatir analyses it on the device
Data Protector inspects the pasted text locally, against the categories you have turned Redaction on for. Nothing is sent to Velatir for this step.
The user decides
The user sees a redacted version, with matched content replaced by placeholders, and chooses how to proceed. Only their chosen result continues to the AI tool.
What Gets Redacted
Redaction acts on the same categories the Data Protector already protects — Credentials, Personal data, and Financial data. You choose which of them to redact from pasted text; there is no separate list to maintain. Turn Redaction on for a category and its sensitive content is stripped on paste.Turn On Redaction
Make the Data Protector an Enforcer
Redaction only acts under Enforcer. An Observer assesses but never changes content, so an Observer Data Protector will not redact anything.
Enable Clipboard assessment
In the Data Protector’s Capabilities, turn on Clipboard assessment. Until it is on, the Redaction switch stays disabled.
Turn on Redaction per category
For each category you want removed from pasted text, flip its Redaction switch.
Roll out the client
Redaction runs through Velatir for Desktop and the browser extension. It requires Velatir for Desktop 0.20.0 or later and the browser extension 1.11.0 or later. Velatir for Desktop updates itself automatically, so managed devices pick this up without action.
What the User Sees
When Redaction is active, pasting sensitive content into a supported AI tool shows the user a redacted version of what they pasted, with the matched content replaced by placeholders. The user reviews it and decides how to proceed — so sensitive content is kept out of the AI service, while ordinary pastes continue uninterrupted.Privacy
Redaction is designed to keep sensitive content on the device. The pasted text is analysed and redacted locally, and — unlike a standard assessment — is not sent to Velatir’s backend. Only the result the user chooses to send continues to the AI tool. See Data privacy for how Velatir handles content more broadly.Data Protector
The agent Redaction belongs to, and the categories it protects.
Configuring agents
Apply the Data Protector across workspaces.
Data privacy
What Velatir stores, and how it scrubs sensitive content.
Velatir for Desktop
The client that runs Redaction on the device.