Adds the client that will let the intake path remove backgrounds from submitted photos via the rembg sidecar over HTTP. isRembgConfigured() reports whether REMBG_URL is set (unconfigured is a normal, working state, not a failure), and removeBackground() posts a file to /api/remove and resolves with the PNG bytes it gets back, rejecting on every failure — unconfigured, unreachable, a non-2xx response, or a body that fails the same magic-byte PNG check the upload path already uses.
The one hard rule: every request names model=u2net explicitly and this is never configurable. The sidecar's default model, reached simply by omitting the parameter, is bria-rmbg, which is licensed non-commercial — a licensing problem that a shop cannot silently ship, and one that would produce a perfectly good image with nothing in it to reveal the mistake. The test that posts against a real stub HTTP server and asserts model=u2net appears on the wire is the only thing guarding against that regressing.
Wires REMBG_URL into both docker-compose.qa.yml and docker-compose.prod.yml as an optional variable, right after ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID, following the existing style in each file's environment block and header comment. It is deliberately left out of envValidation.ts's ALWAYS_REQUIRED — requiring it would make an environment with no sidecar refuse to boot, which is exactly the failure mode this feature is designed to avoid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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