bg-remover SKILL.md skillA
bg-remover from mikefluff/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikefluff/skills/bg-remover@git:20260803.e8ff76fPins git:20260803.e8ff76f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikefluff/skills
- Path
skills/bg-remover/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260803.e8ff76f, committed Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 4,940 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Background removal utility — image in, transparent PNG out. Wraps Replicate-hosted models (851-labs/background-remover default; alternatives via --replicate-model). Use when: 'remove the background', 'cut out the subject', 'transparent PNG', 'убери фон', 'вырежи фон с фотки'.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<objective>
Remove the background from a photo. Single input image → output PNG with transparent (alpha channel) background. Subject preserved as-is; everything else becomes transparent.
This skill does NOT:
- Replace the background with a new image — for that, use the transparent PNG output + paste into a new background in your image editor, OR use `image-prompt --execute --model flux-kontext --image-url <photo> --prompt "subject in new setting"` for full reimagining
- Remove specific objects from a complex scene — only removes BACKGROUND (everything not the main subject)
- Process video — single image only (per call)
- Restore / upscale / sharpen — see future `upscaler` skill
</objective>
## ROLE
Read the input image → call a Replicate-hosted bg-removal model → save the transparent PNG.
## PIPELINE
1. **Resolve input**:
- `--image <path-or-url>` (required)
- Local file or remote URL
2. **Pick provider**:
- Default: `851-labs/background-remover` (popular, accurate on photos)
- Alternatives via `--replicate-model <id>`:
- `851-labs/background-remover` — default; best general
- `lucataco/remove-bg` — alternative
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mikefluff/skills/bg-remover@sha256:e10a39c52d743c7eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260803.e8ff76f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_u4rviemyw4siifs2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 3, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4940 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mikefluff/skills · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u4rviemyw4siifs2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikefluff/skills/bg-remover GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e10a39c52d743c7e26730468addeeccea32deca71fe2f21645fd7184681f29df
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