PII Shield MCP Server

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answering

PII Shield is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Redact names, IDs, emails, phones and card numbers before they reach the model; restore them after.

Uptime history 55 hours of history

55 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

408 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PII Shield every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pii-shield --transport http https://piishield.ai/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://piishield.ai/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pii-shield]
url = "https://piishield.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pii-shield": {
      "url": "https://piishield.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pii-shield": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://piishield.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

coverage

get_coverage

Show your workspace's current PII coverage (which detectors are on, custom terms, custom patterns). Uses the workspace key from your MCP server URL.

set_coverage

Change what this workspace masks, right from your chat. Turn detectors on/off (e.g. enable PERSON name masking), add always-mask terms, or add custom PII as regex (e.g. employee IDs 'EMP-\\d{5}'). Uses the workspace key from your MCP server URL.

redact

redact

Redact personal data (email, phone, cards, SA ID, SSN, IP, IBAN, names, custom terms) from text, replacing each value with a stable token like [EMAIL_1]. Call this before putting sensitive text into a prompt or context. NOTE: detection is automated and is not a guarantee; it can miss personal data. Review the output before relying on it.

redact_document

Redact PII from an uploaded file or document before sharing it with an AI. Works on PDFs, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and text-based files (txt, csv, json, code, transcripts, logs). Pass base64 file data with media_type/filename, OR raw text. Returns the redacted text and counts. Requires your workspace key (via the MCP server URL). NOTE: detection is automated and is not a guarantee; it can miss personal data. Review the file yourself before sharing it.

detect

detect_pii

Report what personal data appears in text (counts by type) without returning the raw values. Use to check whether text is safe to share. NOTE: detection is automated and is not a guarantee; a clean result does not prove the text is free of personal data.

detectors

list_detectors

List the PII types this shield can mask, and confirm custom regex/terms are supported. Call this to see what coverage is available.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://piishield.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	258 ms	6 min ago

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PII Shield — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PII Shield do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: detect_pii, get_coverage, list_detectors, redact, redact_document, set_coverage. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is PII Shield mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around coverage and redact. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is PII Shield working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 408 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PII Shield?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does PII Shield need an API key?

No. PII Shield completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is PII Shield?

It answers our handshake in 408 ms on average, which is faster than 30% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.