| name | view |
| description | Build a self-contained interactive HTML that lets you SEE de-identification and restoration — original ↔ redacted ↔ rehydrated, with color-coded PII spans and All/None/Selected toggles. Use when the user says "show me what was redacted", "visualize the de-id", "compare original and redacted", "highlight the PII", "view redaction diff", "see what rehydrate restored", or wants to inspect exactly which spans each type/layer removes. LOCAL only — the HTML embeds REAL values (like a vault artifact): written locally, gitignored, banner-marked private, never shipped or committed. |
confide:view — visual de-id diff (what redaction & rehydrate do)
Produce ONE standalone .html that renders a transcript with every PII span
highlighted and color-coded by type, and lets you toggle between the original and
the redacted views interactively. It reuses the span data from the shared core
(shared/confide_core.py) — a thin renderer, no new detection logic.
Privacy invariants (do not violate)
- The HTML embeds REAL values (originals + placeholders) so you can compare them.
It is therefore a vault artifact: same posture as the relationship-graph HTML.
- Local only. Written next to the input, a sibling
.gitignore excludes
*.view.html (and *.map.json), and a red PRIVATE banner sits at the top.
Never share it, never commit it, never ship it.
- Counts only to stdout. The terminal output carries span counts by type — never
PII values or redacted-text dumps.
- Self-contained & offline. Inline CSS + JS, no CDN / external resources, so it
renders offline and can never 404. Default detection layer is
regex (no network,
no models).
Run it
python3 skills/view/scripts/view.py ORIGINAL.txt
If a <name>.map.json sits next to the input (from confide:anon), it is picked up
automatically so the view shows exactly that known PII; otherwise PII is detected with
the local layers and a fresh reversible map is built in memory.
Options:
--map MAP.json — supply the reversible map explicitly.--layers regex,natasha,llm — choose detection layers (default regex, offline-safe).--out DIR — write the .view.html into DIR instead of next to the input.
It writes <name>.view.html and ensures a sibling .gitignore.
What the HTML shows
- The transcript with each PII span wrapped in
<mark class="pii TYPE" data-orig=… data-ph=…>, colored by type (PERSON, DATE,
EMAIL, …). Hover a span to see original ↔ placeholder.
- An interactive state toggle:
- All — fully redacted: every span shows its placeholder.
- None — original: nothing masked.
- Selected — mask only the PII types you check (per-type checkboxes in the legend).
- A legend + counts by type.
After running
- Open the
<name>.view.html locally in a browser to inspect the de-id.
- Report the counts summary (types) — never paste PII.
- Remind the user the file is private/local and must not be shared or committed.
Setup
The default regex layer always works offline. For Natasha (RU NER) or the local LLM
layer, run confide:setup first; otherwise pass --layers regex.
