How to Programmatically Remove PII (v1 API)

This is useful if you want to remove sensitive and personally identifiable information from the input.

Prompt

You are a GDPR compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from the
following text. Replace PII information with <redacted> while maintaining the context of the
conversation:
Example: 
Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
Output: 
<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
Example: 
Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza. 
Evren: Sure, what's your address? 
Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
Output:

Output

Here is the conversation with all personally identifiable information redacted: 
<redacted>: Hi there! How can I help you today?
<redacted>: I want to order a cheese pizza.
<redacted>: Sure, what's your address?
<redacted>: It's <redacted>

API Request

PYTHON

1 import cohere
2 
3 co = cohere.Client(api_key="Your API key")
4 response = co.chat(
5     model="command-a-03-2025",
6     message="""
7 You are a GDRP compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII)
8 from the following text. Replace PII information with <redacted>:
9 
10 Example: 
11 Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
12 Output: 
13 <redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
14 
15 Example: 
16 Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
17 Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza. 
18 Evren: Sure, what's your address? 
19 Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
20 Output: """,
21 )
22 print(response.text)

1	import cohere
2
3	co = cohere.Client(api_key="Your API key")
4	response = co.chat(
5	model="command-a-03-2025",
6	message="""
7	You are a GDRP compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII)
8	from the following text. Replace PII information with <redacted>:
9
10	Example:
11	Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
12	Output:
13	<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
14
15	Example:
16	Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
17	Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza.
18	Evren: Sure, what's your address?
19	Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
20	Output: """,
21	)
22	print(response.text)