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. Uses OCR (Tesseract + RapidOCR) with 47 regex rules and optional NER (GLiNER) to detect private data and...
Profile →npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill privacy-mask --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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: ```bash privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --in-place privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --dry-run # detect only, no
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privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --in-place privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --dry-run # detect only, no masking privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --detection-engine regex # regex only, skip NER privacy-mask mask /path/to/screenshot.png --config /path/to/custom-config.json
What does the privacy-mask skill do?
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. Uses OCR (Tesseract + RapidOCR) with 47 regex rules and optional NER (GLiNER) to detect private data and...
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill privacy-mask --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.