openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix Feature request: PII sanitization skill for privacy compliance before LLM calls [1 comments, 2 participants]

Summary

OpenClaw processes user messages from WhatsApp, Telegram and Discord that frequently contain PII. TrustBoost is a ready-made sanitization skill that redacts sensitive data before it reaches LLMs.

Problem to solve

User messages sent through OpenClaw channels contain sensitive PII — emails, phone numbers, national IDs, private keys, and financial data — that reaches LLMs without sanitization. This creates compliance risk for EU AI Act (August 2026), GDPR, LGPD, and APPI.

Proposed solution

Add TrustBoost as a recommended privacy skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem. Integration is a single POST request:

POST https://api.trustboost.dev/sanitize {"tx_hash": "TRIAL", "text": user_message}

Returns sanitized text with PII replaced by [REDACTED]. No SDK, no auth, 50 free requests per wallet.

Alternatives considered

Local regex sanitization — misses contextual PII like names and locations. OpenAI Privacy Filter — requires local infrastructure. TrustBoost is the only solution with blockchain-verified payment and zero-friction integration for autonomous agents.

Impact

Affected users/systems: All OpenClaw users processing real user messages via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack — especially those handling customer data, financial information, or personal communications.

Severity: High — not a workflow blocker today, but becomes a legal compliance blocker on August 2, 2026 when EU AI Act enforcement begins. Fines up to €20M for processing EU user data without adequate safeguards.

Frequency: Always — every message containing an email, phone number, national ID, or private key that passes through OpenClaw to an LLM is affected.

Consequence: PII leakage to external LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), potential GDPR/LGPD/APPI violations, and audit trail gaps for compliance reporting. Without sanitization, OpenClaw deployments processing real user data operate in a legal gray area that becomes untenable in 94 days.

Evidence/examples

• Endpoint live: https://api.trustboost.dev/health
• Open source server: github.com/teodorofodocrispin-cmyk/trustboost-api
• SKILL.md v2.0.4: github.com/teodorofodocrispin-cmyk/TrustBoost-PII-Sanitizer
• PR open in hermes-agent: NousResearch/hermes-agent#17472
• PR open in agentskills: agentskills/agentskills#348

Additional information

TrustBoost is MIT licensed, open source, and built specifically for autonomous agent pipelines. Payment model: 149 USDC on Solana Network = 10,000 sanitizations. The Digital Consciousness Manifesto describes the ethical framework: github.com/teodorofodocrispin-cmyk/TrustBoost-PII-Sanitizer