excalidraw-export

excalidraw-export is a command for Claude Code from lesleslie/excalidraw-mcp. It costs 24 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A command for retrieving the current Excalidraw drawing data. Excalidraw is a browser-based whiteboard tool, and the data can represent the full scene, reusable library, theme, or just drawing elements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve scene JSON, reusable library items, theme settings, or individual elements for later rendering or reuse.
Why use it?
It provides a current snapshot for other tools to process or export. It avoids manually copying drawing data from the canvas.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the excalidraw plugin — 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to retrieve scene JSON, reusable library items, theme settings, or individual elements for later rendering or reuse.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lesleslie/excalidraw-mcp/excalidraw-export
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lesleslie/excalidraw-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install excalidraw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 324 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 $0.00024 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2d9aa475a637, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw-export 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 9d 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.

commands/excalidraw-export.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

/excalidraw-export

Retrieve a live snapshot of the Excalidraw canvas as a resource that can be exported downstream (to SVG, PNG, JSON, or copied into another tool).

Usage

/excalidraw-export <scene|library|theme|elements>

Arguments:

  • <scene>: full canvas scene JSON (elements, app state, files). This is the canonical export payload.
  • <library>: shared Excalidraw library (reusable elements across scenes).
  • <theme>: active theme (light/dark + custom palette).
  • <elements>: just the elements array, without app state.

The MCP server returns the raw resource; downstream SVG/PNG rendering is the responsibility of the calling tool (e.g. browser-side Excalidraw or a local renderer).

Workflow

  1. Call mcp__excalidraw__health_check to confirm the canvas subprocess is running.
  2. Call mcp__excalidraw__get_resource with the supplied <resource-type>.
  3. Echo the resource payload back to the caller, noting the element count or scene size so downstream tools can decide how to render it.

Example

/excalidraw-export scene

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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 2d9aa475a637

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excalidraw-export is a command published in the GitHub repository lesleslie/excalidraw-mcp (14 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 324 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.