Agent skill · security · sickn33
privacy-mask
Mask, redact, anonymize and censor sensitive information (PII) in screenshots and images — phone numbers, emails, IDs, API keys, crypto wallets, credit cards, passwords, and more.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands and workflows for masking sensitive information in images that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires privacy-mask, tesseract installed locally. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Privacy Mask Detect and mask sensitive information in images locally before they leave your machine. Prerequisites This skill requires the privacy-mask CLI to be pre-installed on the system. If it is not available, inform the user that they need to install it first: 1. Install via pip: pip install privacy-mask 2. Ensure Tesseract OCR is installed: brew install tesseract (macOS) or apt install tesseract-ocr (Linux) 3. Verify installation: privacy-mask --version 4. (Optional) Install NER support: pip install privacy-mask[ner] When to use User sends a screenshot or image file (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .tiff) that may contain private data User mentions privacy, masking, redacting, or anonymizing You need to analyze an image but want to redact sensitive info first IF the user shares a screenshot for debugging, THEN run privacy-mask mask <path> --dry-run first to check for PII IF detections are found, THEN mask the image before proceeding with analysis Usage Mask an image: Output is JSON: Example workflow 1. User provides a screenshot: ~/Desktop/error-screenshot.png 2. Run detection: privacy-mask mask ~/Desktop/error-screenshot.png --dry-run 3. IF detections found, mask the image: privacy-mask mask ~/Desktop/error-screenshot.png 4. The masked output is saved as ~/Desktop/error-screenshotmasked.png 5. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills sickn33/privacy-mask--ee27b3