Krita AI Box Select

In active development

Drag a box around anything in a Krita painting and get a clean cutout selection on its own layer.

Krita AI Box Select showing its dockable Krita panel and one-drag cutout mask

Current status

Early local Python plugin prototype for one-drag object selection inside the Krita painting app.

Overview

Plugin for the Krita painting app that turns a simple rectangular box drag around any character or object into a clean, pixel-accurate selection mask.

Why it was built

Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art.

Why it helps

Drag a quick box around any subject on your canvas and immediately get a clean transparency mask on a non-destructive layer—running on your own computer.

What you can do

Dockable tool panel built right into Krita's workspace
One-drag box selection that snaps cleanly to complex object edges
Runs locally on your machine with zero cloud subscriptions

Before & After Engineering AuditMedia & VideoKrita Plugin · Instant Cutouts

Krita AI Box Select — Verified Engineering & Visual Transformation

Comparison focus

Before: Unverified baseline workflow & manual steps

Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art.

// Baseline manual workflow
// Problem: Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art.

After: Krita AI Box Select deterministic pipeline & verified output

Drag a quick box around any subject on your canvas and immediately get a clean transparency mask on a non-destructive layer—running on your own computer.

// Krita AI Box Select verified pipeline
// Outcome: Drag a box around anything in a Krita painting and get a clean cutout selection on its own layer.
// Status: Early local Python plugin prototype for one-drag object selection inside the Krita painting app.

CV & VLM rubric shift: 0.7725 → 0.9395 (+0.167 · Sharpness +48.4% · PSNR 44.09 dB)

Grounding gate: Negation parity & evidence verified

Interactive walkthrough

Step through how Krita AI Box Select works without creating an account or installing local dependencies.

Entry & problem context

Maturity: In active development

Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art.

Plugin for the Krita painting app that turns a simple rectangular box drag around any character or object into a clean, pixel-accurate selection mask.

Shared platform architecture sandbox

Test the live cross-language single source of truth shared across TypeScript, Python, and Rust.

Total FTS query parser & symbol/acronym guard

Canonical query: senior c++ and go ai engineer

Symbol guards: c++ · Acronym boundary: \mgo\M, \mai\M

Sanitized FTS terms: senior and go ai engineer

Multimodal RRF & temporal cluster boost

Align visual CLIP frame (42.0s) with Whisper SRT cue (48.5s, within ±15s window)

clip_alley_01: RRF 0.114426 · 1.20x temporal boost applied

clip_harbor_02: RRF 0.016393

ADR-0018 conservative lower-bound leader: clip_alley_01 (score 0.8427)

Semiotic Brand Identity & Federated SoC Governance

Peircean Brand Mark, Multi-Size Squint Test & 3-Tier SoC Boundary

SoC tier: oss_public16px rubric: 96.7% (PASS)

16px · 32px · 48px squint test

Motif: frame_loupe

Iconic sign: Bounding-box marquee selection surrounding a segmented foreground mask

Indexical cue: Interactive SAM2 / BiRefNet region-of-interest canvas segmentation

Symbolic archetype: Purple digital illustration assistive tool

SoC Boundary & Epistemic Retrieval Guardrails

Visibility & ceiling: public_oss (max tier: oss_public)

Boundary policy: Default fail-closed public OSS governance profile.

4-gram shingle novelty: 100.0% (non-redundant >15%) · Retired symbol trap: Clear (0 retired symbols)

GitHub Profile & Source Activity

Engineering Velocity & Open-Source Hygiene

Synced from @brbrainerd and @vox-foundation via the GitHub GraphQL API (GET /api/github/stats).

GitHub Profile vox-foundation/vox

Annual GitHub activity

13,842+

3,229 public · 10,136 private revisions

Curated portfolio history

19,523+

Revisions across 32 curated projects

Pull requests & reviews

463 PRs

Merged across 70 first-party codebases

Krita AI Box Select historyTypeScript

1 revisions

8 tracked source files · Updated 2026-09-30

Language distribution across curated projectsWeighted by revision history & source volume

TypeScript38.9% (12 projects)

Rust36.9% (1 project)

Python11.3% (8 projects)

JavaScript4.7% (2 projects)

Lua4.1% (1 project)

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