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AI governance for Claude Code

Claude Code security: redaction and visibility

PromptWall redacts secrets, credentials and personal data in every Claude Code session before it reaches Anthropic. The AI Control Panel manages company subscriptions and can turn Claude Code off for chosen people.

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Real usage

What people paste into Claude Code

The patterns we see most often once a team adopts Claude Code for real work.

  • Credentials pasted while debugging

    A failing deploy or a broken connection gets a real AWS key, token or database password pasted straight into the Claude Code prompt.

  • Repo files read as context

    Claude Code reads files in the working directory and sends them as context, including .env files, credentials in test fixtures and customer data in seed scripts.

  • Personal data in logs and fixtures

    Stack traces, log excerpts and sample data pulled into a session often carry names, emails and phone numbers of real customers.

  • Long sessions that re-send history

    Each turn ships the earlier conversation back to the model, so a secret pasted early in a session travels again with every later request.

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What your employee typed

Why does this deploy script fail? AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY and the DB password is Rk93!mTq2xZ.

What Claude Code received

Why does this deploy script fail? AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[API_KEY_1] and the DB password is [PASSWORD_1].

FAQ

Claude Code, common questions

Does it cover Claude Code in the terminal?

Yes. The NexusNest agent routes Claude Code traffic to Anthropic through redaction, including the messages endpoint and the session calls Claude Code makes, on macOS and Windows.

What does Claude Code see instead of my secret?

A labelled placeholder such as [API_KEY_1], [PASSWORD_1] or [PERSON_1]. The model answers from the surrounding code and context, so the reply is still useful.

Can the company manage Claude Code subscriptions?

Yes. The AI Control Panel assigns company Claude Code subscriptions and the agent signs the employee in with a managed credential, with no shared passwords. Offboarding is one revoke.

Can we turn Claude Code off for some people?

Yes. An org-wide CLI policy can switch Claude Code off for chosen people while everyone else keeps working.

Does redaction ever block a developer?

No. If redaction cannot run, the request is not blocked. The event is tagged with its reason, audited and shown to admins as an alert.

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