How to Keep Secrets and Sensitive Data Out of AI Prompts, Embeddings, Traces, and Logs

TL;DR Sensitive data protection for AI is not a prompt-writing problem. It is a data-path control problem. The safest operating model classifies data before it enters the AI workflow, blocks credentials and restricted records by default, redacts or tokenizes approved confidential data, preserves source permissions in retrieval, disables prompt and tool-content telemetry unless explicitly approved,