Excludesio

Excludesio is a software tool and framework designed to provide rule-based exclusion of items in data processing, filtering, and content delivery. It enables users to define criteria to exclude data, files, or results from pipelines, queries, or outputs. The goal is to improve privacy, efficiency, and compliance by systematically removing unwanted elements.

Core features include a declarative configuration language for exclusion rules, support for patterns such as glob and regular expressions, prioritization and conflict-resolution mechanisms, and incremental updates to exclusion sets without reprocessing entire datasets. It supports multiple sources of rules, including files, databases, and environment variables, and it produces auditable logs and summaries of exclusions for governance purposes.

Implementation and usage: Excludesio provides a runtime library for major programming languages and a command-line interface. Users integrate its rule engine into data pipelines or content management systems. Typical workflows involve defining an exclusion profile, validating rules, and running the processor to filter input streams or queries. It can be used for redacting personally identifiable information, removing restricted content, or pruning irrelevant data in analytics.

Design and governance: The project emphasizes deterministic behavior, transparent decision making, and reproducible results. It offers modular plug-ins for data sources, output targets, and integration with job schedulers or orchestration systems. It also includes test suites and a dry-run mode to preview exclusions before execution, aiding audit and compliance efforts.

See also: data filtering, access control, privacy, data governance, pattern matching, policy enforcement.