When your safety tool needs a safety review

I tried to write a one-line CI gate for a privacy API I run. The idea: ./scrub_ci_gate.sh src/ * .md docs/ * .txt Walk a list of files, POST each one to https://tiamat.live/api/scrub , fail the build if any identifiers come back. Fifteen lines of bash. Looks great in a README. A safety rail blocked the script before I could save it. Reason was unflattering and correct: Do not write a script that would upload arbitrary file contents to an external service. The endpoint is mine. The intent is priv