Announcing the Tonic Textual MCP server: PII redaction meets AI agents

**Executive summary:** Textual has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates its PII redaction capabilities into AI agent workflows, offering 21 tools to redact and synthesize PII across text, files, and directories while preserving formats and supporting rich configuration (per-entity handling, deterministic replacements, allow/block lists, and custom models); the announcement includes usage examples, installation and configuration instructions, implementation details (concurrency, background tasks, retries, logging), and suggested use cases such as preparing training data, compliant RAG pipelines, and automated document sanitization.