I built a VS Code AI assistant that redacts secrets before sending code to DeepSeek

I love AI coding tools, but three things always bothered me: Expensive subscriptions Sending sensitive code and credentials to third parties Not knowing exactly what context is being sent to the model So I built MisterPilot . MisterPilot is a VS Code AI coding assistant powered by DeepSeek that includes a privacy layer before requests leave your machine. It can automatically detect and redact things like: API keys Tokens Passwords URLs Other sensitive identifiers The model sees placeholders instead of the o