# Prompt Cleaner

> Use this tool when you need to sanitize and reformat user prompts for language models, solving problems of sensitive data exposure and prompt hygiene. It takes in user prompts and outputs cleaned and reformatted text with risk assessments, using integrations with local OpenAI-compatible APIs and configurable settings. Use Prompt Cleaner in AI workflows to prevent accidental exposure of sensitive information like API keys, tokens, and emails.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/da-colon-prompt-cleaner  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/da-colon-prompt-cleaner

## Description

Prompt Cleaner MCP server by David Colon that provides AI assistants with tools to sanitize, redact, and professionally reformat user prompts before they're processed by language models. The implementation integrates with local OpenAI-compatible APIs to intelligently clean prompts while automatically detecting and redacting sensitive information like API keys, tokens, emails, and other secrets using pattern matching. Features comprehensive retry logic with exponential backoff, structured JSON output with notes and risk assessments, configurable temperature settings, and multiple tool aliases (cleaner, sanitize-text, normalize-prompt) for different use cases, making it valuable for developers who want to ensure prompt hygiene and prevent accidental exposure of sensitive data in AI workflows.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.87
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** communication
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/da-colon-prompt-cleaner)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/dacebt/prompt-cleaner-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "da-colon-prompt-cleaner"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/da-colon-prompt-cleaner` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/da-colon-prompt-cleaner/pull`

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