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Python SDK: Use Any LLM Without Leaking PII

#privacy #ai #security #python

Samsung engineers leaked source code to ChatGPT. Goldman Sachs banned it entirely. JPMorgan restricted it across the firm.

The problem isn't that LLMs are dangerous. It's that raw user data — names, SSNs, emails, API keys — flows directly from your app to OpenAI's servers with every prompt.

Here's a drop-in fix.

TIAMAT Privacy Proxy

A proxy layer that:

  1. Scrubs PII from your prompt (regex + NER)
  2. Forwards the clean request to GPT/Claude/Groq using its own API keys
  3. Returns the response with tokens restored

Your users' raw data never leaves your server. Zero logs on the proxy side.

The Python SDK

Save this as tiamat_sdk.py (pip package coming soon):

import os, requests
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Dict, List, Optional

BASE_URL = "https://tiamat.live"

@dataclass
class ScrubResult:
    scrubbed: str
    entities: Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
    entity_count: int = 0

    def restore(self, text: str) -> str:
        for placeholder, original in self.entities.items():
            text = text.replace(f"[{placeholder}]", original)
        return text

@dataclass  
class ProxyResult:
    response: dict
    provider: str
    model: str
    scrubbed_entities: Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)

    @property
    def content(self) -> Optional[str]:
        try:
            return self.response["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
        except (KeyError, IndexError, TypeError):
            return None

class TiamatClient:
    def __init__(self, api_key=None, timeout=30):
        self.timeout = timeout
        self._s = requests.Session()
        if api_key or os.getenv("TIAMAT_API_KEY"):
            self._s.headers["X-API-Key"] = api_key or os.getenv("TIAMAT_API_KEY")

    def scrub(self, text: str) -> ScrubResult:
        r = self._s.post(f"{BASE_URL}/api/scrub", json={"text": text}, timeout=self.timeout)
        r.raise_for_status()
        d = r.json()
        return ScrubResult(scrubbed=d["scrubbed"], entities=d.get("entities", {}), entity_count=d.get("entity_count", 0))

    def proxy(self, messages, provider="groq", model=None, scrub=True) -> ProxyResult:
        payload = {"messages": messages, "provider": provider, "scrub": scrub}
        if model: payload["model"] = model
        r = self._s.post(f"{BASE_URL}/api/proxy", json=payload, timeout=self.timeout)
        r.raise_for_status()
        d = r.json()
        return ProxyResult(response=d.get("response", {}), provider=d["provider"], model=d["model"], scrubbed_entities=d.get("scrubbed_entities", {}))
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Usage: Scrub Only

When you want to clean data before sending to your own LLM setup:

from tiamat_sdk import TiamatClient

client = TiamatClient()

# Before: "Patient Jane Doe, SSN 123-45-6789, email jane@hospital.com"
result = client.scrub("Patient Jane Doe, SSN 123-45-6789, email jane@hospital.com")

print(result.scrubbed)
# "Patient [NAME_1], SSN [SSN_1], email [EMAIL_1]"

print(result.entities)
# {"NAME_1": "Jane Doe", "SSN_1": "123-45-6789", "EMAIL_1": "jane@hospital.com"}

# Send result.scrubbed to your LLM
# Then restore with:
llm_response = "The patient [NAME_1] needs follow-up"
final = result.restore(llm_response)
print(final)  # "The patient Jane Doe needs follow-up"
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Usage: Full Privacy Proxy

When you want TIAMAT to make the LLM call — your IP never hits the provider:

result = client.proxy(
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Summarize for our records: John Smith, SSN 123-45-6789, owes $50,000 in back taxes"}
    ],
    provider="openai",       # or "anthropic" | "groq"
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
)

print(result.content)          # GPT's summary
print(result.scrubbed_entities) # What got scrubbed: {"NAME_1": "John Smith", ...}
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John Smith's SSN went nowhere near OpenAI's servers.

What Gets Scrubbed 

# Input:
"Hi, I'm John Smith (john@corp.com, 555-867-5309). "
"My SSN is 123-45-6789 and my Visa is 4111111111111111. "
"I live at 123 Main St. My OpenAI key is sk-abc123xyz..."

# Output:
"Hi, I'm [NAME_1] ([EMAIL_1], [PHONE_1]). "
"My SSN is [SSN_1] and my Visa is [CC_1]. "
"I live at [ADDRESS_1]. My OpenAI key is [APIKEY_1]"
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Detects: full names, SSNs, emails, phone numbers, credit cards, street addresses, IPs, API keys (OpenAI sk-, Anthropic, Google AIza...).

Pricing

Endpoint Free Tier Paid
/api/scrub 50 req/day $0.001/req
/api/proxy 10 req/day provider cost + 20%

Free tier requires no API key. Just hit the endpoint.

curl If You Prefer 

# Scrub PII
curl -X POST https://tiamat.live/api/scrub \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text": "My SSN is 123-45-6789 and email is bob@co.com"}'

# {"scrubbed": "My SSN is [SSN_1] and email is [EMAIL_1]",
#  "entities": {"SSN_1": "123-45-6789", "EMAIL_1": "bob@co.com"},
#  "entity_count": 2}

# Proxy to Groq
curl -X POST https://tiamat.live/api/proxy \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "provider": "groq",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize: Alice Wong, 555-123-4567, filed claim"}],
    "scrub": true
  }'
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Why Not Just Use OpenAI's API Directly?

You can. But:

  • OpenAI logs requests for abuse monitoring (you can opt out, but it's an extra step)
  • Enterprise BAAs with OpenAI cost money and require paperwork
  • Your app's IP is in their logs
  • One misconfiguration and raw PHI is stored in their systems

TIAMAT sits in front of the provider. The scrubbing happens in memory on our servers. Nothing is persisted. The provider sees [NAME_1] — not your users' real names.

Full SDK: https://tiamat.live/docs

Interactive playground: https://tiamat.live/playground

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