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PlainText Guard - Safe AI Copy & Paste

by CLabs · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 17 Oct 2026

Clean AI-copied text and block secrets before they are pasted into supported AI chats, entirely on-device.

Users
3
−2 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#332K
#261K among extensions
Version
0.3.1
updated 13 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 months
025Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 17 Oct 2026: 3 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 months
001Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 17 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About PlainText Guard - Safe AI Copy & Paste

Keep text copied from and pasted into supported AI assistants cleaner and safer, entirely in your browser. PlainText Guard catches troublesome Unicode formatting when you copy AI-generated text and detects likely credentials before you paste them into an AI chat. It is designed for developers, security and cloud engineers, QA teams, technical writers, analysts, and anyone moving text between AI assistants and professional work. CLEAN COPIED TEXT - Detect smart quotes, em and en dashes, ellipses, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, bullets, arrows, mixed-script lookalikes, and other hidden or deceptive characters. - Review changes before copying, automatically copy an ASCII-safe version, or use Style Review mode. - Optionally enable Strict ASCII cleanup. - Preserve ordinary non-English text, accents, currencies, and emoji unless Strict ASCII is enabled. BLOCK PASTED SECRETS - Explicitly opt in to local secret checking; the paste guard is off by default. - Detect high-confidence API keys, access tokens, validated JWTs, and private-key blocks during a user-initiated paste after it is enabled. - Paste with detected values redacted, paste anyway, or cancel. - Lower-confidence findings warn without automatically blocking the paste. - Turn the paste guard off whenever it is not needed. STAY IN CONTROL - Use master and per-site on/off controls. - Toggle the extension with Alt+Shift+P. - Run it only on explicitly supported AI assistant sites. - Keep all text analysis local: no text uploads, analytics, ads, or background clipboard reading. PlainText Guard is not an AI detector and is not designed to hide AI use. It is a local plain-text hygiene and credential-safety tool.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−1−25.0%00.00
30 days−2−40.0%00.00

Version history

1 versions recorded
0.3.113 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
13 Jul 2026
Size
28 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
lfimkibdfnnpolmgiiokofmjhkiepgcc

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storageclipboardWritecontextMenus

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