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      <title>I built an open source proxy that blocks PII and prompt injection before any LLM call</title>
      <dc:creator>JEEVAN NAGARAJ</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/jnvoy/i-built-an-open-source-proxy-that-blocks-pii-and-prompt-injection-before-any-llm-call-1iab</link>
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      <description>&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  The problem
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every time your application calls Claude or GPT-4o, your users' sensitive data travels to an external server. Names, emails, phone numbers, NHS numbers, financial data. Most developers have no visibility into what is actually leaving their system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What I built
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jnvoy is a drop-in proxy. Change one URL in your code and every LLM call is automatically protected.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before Jnvoy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Your app sends raw user data directly to Claude or GPT-4o.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After Jnvoy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Every request is scanned locally, PII is replaced with reversible tokens, the clean request goes to the LLM, and original values are restored in the response.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What it does
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microsoft Presidio PII detection with 20+ entity types&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;UK-specific recognisers: NHS numbers, NI numbers, UK postcodes, sort codes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prompt injection detection: blocks jailbreaks, instruction overrides, system prompt extraction&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MCP security: detects tool poisoning and secret leakage in tool responses&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PostgreSQL audit logs for FCA and GDPR compliance&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One click FCA and EU AI Act compliance report PDF&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Semantic caching saves 20 to 40 percent of LLM costs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Multi-tenant API keys with complete data isolation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Slack connector protecting AI bot messages&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Docker stack in one command&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;164 automated tests passing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  One URL change
&lt;/h2&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight python"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="c1"&gt;# Before
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kn"&gt;import&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;anthropic&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;client&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;anthropic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Anthropic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;api_key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;sk-ant-...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;response&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;client&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;messages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nf"&gt;create&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;claude-haiku-4-5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;messages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;[{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;role&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;user&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;user_message&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;}])&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;# After
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kn"&gt;import&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;httpx&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;response&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;httpx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nf"&gt;post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;https://jnvoy.onrender.com/v1/proxy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;json&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;claude-haiku-4-5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;provider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;anthropic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;messages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="p"&gt;[{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;role&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;user&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;user_message&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;}]})&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Try it
&lt;/h2&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight shell"&gt;&lt;code&gt;curl &lt;span class="s2"&gt;"https://jnvoy.onrender.com/v1/scan?text=My NI number is AB123456C and email is john@example.com"&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Live: &lt;a href="https://jnvoy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://jnvoy.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
GitHub: &lt;a href="https://github.com/Jeevan2191999/jnvoy" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/Jeevan2191999/jnvoy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Happy to answer questions about the architecture.&lt;/p&gt;

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