name: effect-module-redactable description: Guidance for effect/Redactable focused on APIs like getRedacted, isRedactable, and redact. Load after effect-skill-router when this module is the primary owner.

Effect Module Redactable

Owned scope

• Owns only effect/Redactable.
• Source of truth: packages/effect/src/Redactable.ts.

What it is for

• Module-specific APIs and usage patterns for Effect programs.

API quick reference

• getRedacted
• isRedactable
• redact
• Redactable
• currentFiberTypeId
• symbolRedactable
• Full API list: references/api-reference.md

How to use it

• Treat stateful APIs as synchronization boundaries and keep updates atomic.
• Use the reference docs to select the smallest API surface that solves your task.
• Validate behavior against existing tests before introducing new usage patterns.

Starter example

import type { Context } from "effect";
import { Redactable } from "effect";

class SensitiveData implements Redactable.Redactable {
  constructor(private secret: string) {}

  [Redactable.symbolRedactable](context: Context.Context<never>) {
    // In production, hide the actual secret
    return { secret: "[REDACTED]" };
  }
}

const data = new SensitiveData("my-secret-key");
// The redacted version will be used when converting to JSON in certain contexts

Common pitfalls

• Prefer explicit, typed combinators over ad-hoc casting or unchecked assumptions.

Not covered here

• Adjacent modules in effect/* and effect/unstable/* are out of scope for this owner.

Escalate to

• effect-skill-router for routing and ownership checks.

Reference anchors

• Module source: packages/effect/src/Redactable.ts
• Representative tests: packages/effect/test/Formatter.test.ts
• API details: references/api-reference.md
• Usage notes: references/usage-reference.md
• Ownership mapping: references/owner.md