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- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
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Reliability & compatibility
Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Remove Background
Remove image backgrounds using BiRefNet_lite model. Runs locally on CPU, MPS (Apple Silicon), or CUDA.
When to Use
- User wants to remove background from an image
- User wants a transparent PNG version of an image
- User wants to isolate a subject from its background
Requirements
No API keys required. Model downloads automatically on first run (~100MB, cached).
Command
./scripts/remove_background [options]
Options
| Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | input | Input image path (required) | | -o, --output | Output path (default: {name}_nobg.png) | | -c, --crop | Smart crop to foreground bounding box | | -p, --padding | Padding around crop in pixels (default: 0) | | --device | Force device: cuda/mps/cpu (default: auto-detect) | | -f, --format | Output: json (default) or table |
Examples
# Basic usage - outputs photo_nobg.png
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg
# Smart crop to subject
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg --crop
# Smart crop with 20px padding
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg --crop --padding 20
# Custom output path
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg -o transparent.png
# Force CPU (if MPS has issues)
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg --device cpu
# Human-readable output
./scripts/remove_background photo.jpg --format table
Output Format
JSON (default):
{
"input": "photo.jpg",
"output": "photo_nobg.png",
"device": "mps",
"original_size": [1920, 1080],
"output_size": [800, 600],
"cropped": true,
"crop_box": [120, 80, 920, 680],
"model": "ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet_lite"
}
Notes
- First run downloads model (~100MB), subsequent runs use cache
- Output is always PNG with alpha channel (transparency)
- Device auto-detection: CUDA > MPS > CPU
- MPS (Apple Silicon) may have some op fallbacks to CPU
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: nc9
- Source: nc9/skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.