photoshop-remove-background

photoshop-remove-background is a skill for Claude Code from alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp. It costs 53 tokens per session (237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Photoshop recipe for removing an image background in one defined operation. Photoshop is an image-editing application, and this leaves the subject isolated with the background removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an image needs its background removed, the subject cut out, or a transparent background created.
Why use it?
It avoids unnecessary manual steps such as duplicating layers, making a selection, or creating a mask. It also gives a fixed procedure for this specific request.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the photoshop-mcp plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when an image needs its background removed, the subject cut out, or a transparent background created.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/photoshop-remove-background
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp --skill photoshop-remove-background
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install photoshop-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 237 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.00237
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00095
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00024

Measured 17d ago against content hash 5a8258964dfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

photoshop-remove-background scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 17d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/photoshop-remove-background/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Remove background

HARD RULE — remove background / arka planı sil / cut out / isolate / transparent background

  • Call photoshop_get_state once, then photoshop_recipe_remove_background once, then photoshop_get_preview once. Then STOP.
  • That recipe IS Photoshop's Remove Background. It unlocks a locked Background layer itself.
  • Forbidden on this intent: photoshop_rasterize_layer, photoshop_duplicate_layer, photoshop_set_layer_visibility, photoshop_select_subject, photoshop_create_layer_mask, photoshop_delete_layer, photoshop_execute_script, photoshop_generative_remove.
  • If the recipe errors, report the envelope to the user. Do not invent a rasterize / duplicate / wand workaround. Ignore suggested_next_tool: photoshop_rasterize_layer.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 17d ago First seen · 17 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5a8258964dfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

photoshop-remove-background is a skill published in the GitHub repository alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp (677 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 237 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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