AI Engineer · October 11, 2026

Document redaction for agents: verify the raw-file access boundary

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Why it matters

Filip Makraduli demonstrates processing documents through MCP before returning smaller artifacts to a coding agent. Superlinked’s public implementation exposes parsing, extraction, summarization, and redaction tools backed by a configurable inference cluster. The privacy boundary remains conditional: a host that can read the original file may bypass the intended processing path, and a redaction tool can miss sensitive content. Self-hosting alone does not establish privacy.

My takeaway: Use synthetic documents with known sensitive fields. Inspect file permissions, model destinations, traces, and returned artifacts; attempt a direct read that bypasses the redaction tool. Measure missed fields instead of treating a successful demo as a privacy guarantee.

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