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Take personal details out of a prompt
A short edit that keeps the question and leaves the identifiers behind.
Most prompts do not need a real person in them. They need the situation. “Rewrite this so it sounds less abrupt” does not require the recipient’s email. “Turn these notes into a checklist” does not require a home address.
A pass you can do by hand
Read the draft once and look for:
- Names of people.
- Email addresses and phone numbers.
- Street addresses, account numbers, and ID numbers.
- Links that contain a password, a token, or a long secret.
- Keys or passwords you pasted from a settings page.
Replace a person with a role if the role matters: “the designer”, “the customer”, “my brother”. Keep the detail the model actually needs, such as the tone, the deadline, or the sentence you dislike.
A tiny before and after
Before: “Email Jake Miller at jake@example.com and ask if Thursday still works. Make it warm.”
After: “Email the client and ask if Thursday still works. Make it warm.”
The second prompt asks for the same help. If you still want the model to refer to a specific stand-in, you can write “email [PERSON_1] at [EMAIL_1]” yourself. That is anonymizing by hand.
Vipra does that swap in the field, locally, for the types it knows. Five protections a day are free. It is not a reason to skip the read-through. A confidential plan with no email in it can still be the wrong thing to paste.