excalidraw

excalidraw is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aleksbuss/orchestra. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,005 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating and editing Excalidraw diagrams, which are hand-drawn-style drawings saved as JSON files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create flowcharts, system architecture diagrams, wireframes, and other visual drawings in .excalidraw format.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build diagram files and their shapes by hand when working with code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps create flowcharts, system architecture diagrams, wireframes, and other visual drawings in .excalidraw format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aleksbuss/orchestra/excalidraw
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add aleksbuss/orchestra --skill excalidraw
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aleksbuss/orchestra

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for excalidraw

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,005 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 $0.00051 $0.02005
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00200

Measured 8d ago against content hash 178ae99011f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw 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 8d 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.

bundled-skills/excalidraw/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw Diagram Creation

This skill enables you to create beautiful, hand-drawn style diagrams in the Excalidraw JSON format.

File Format Overview

Excalidraw files (.excalidraw) are JSON with this structure:

{
  "type": "excalidraw",
  "version": 2,
  "source": "https://excalidraw.com",
  "elements": [],
  "appState": {
    "viewBackgroundColor": "#ffffff",
    "gridSize": null
  },
  "files": {}
}

Quick Start - Creating Elements

Every element needs at minimum: type, id, x, y, and styling properties.

Minimal Rectangle

{
  "type": "rectangle",
  "id": "rect-1",
  "x": 100,
  "y": 100,
  "width": 200,
  "height": 100,
  "angle": 0,
  "strokeColor": "#1e1e1e",
  "backgroundColor": "transparent",
  "fillStyle": "solid",
  "strokeWidth": 2,
  "strokeStyle": "solid",
  "roughness": 1,
  "opacity": 100,
  "seed": 1234,
  "version": 1,
  "versionNonce": 1234,
  "isDeleted": false,
  "groupIds": [],
  "boundElements": null,
  "link": null,
  "locked": false,
  "roundness": { "type": 3 }
}

Text Element

{
  "type": "text",
  "id": "text-1",
  "x": 120,
  "y": 130,
  "width": 160,
  "height": 25,
  "text": "Hello World",
  "fontSize": 20,
  "fontFamily": 1,
  "textAlign": "center",
  "verticalAlign": "middle",
  "angle": 0,
  "strokeColor": "#1e1e1e",
  "backgroundColor": "transparent",
  "fillStyle": "solid",
  "strokeWidth": 2,
  "strokeStyle": "solid",
  "roughness": 1,
  "opacity": 100,
  "seed": 5678,
  "version": 1,
  "versionNonce": 5678,
  "isDeleted": false,
  "groupIds": [],
  "boundElements": null,
  "link": null,
  "locked": false,
  "containerId": null,
  "originalText": "Hello World",
  "autoResize": true,
  "lineHeight": 1.25
}

Arrow Element

{
  "type": "arrow",
  "id": "arrow-1",
  "x": 300,
  "y": 150,
  "width": 100,
  "height": 0,
  "points": [[0, 0], [100, 0]],
  "startArrowhead": null,
  "endArrowhead": "arrow",
  "startBinding": null,
  "endBinding": null,
  "angle": 0,
  "strokeColor": "#1e1e1e",
  "backgroundColor": "transparent",
  "fillStyle": "solid",
  "strokeWidth": 2,
  "strokeStyle": "solid",
  "roughness": 1,
  "opacity": 100,
  "seed": 9012,
  "version": 1,
  "versionNonce": 9012,
  "isDeleted": false,
  "groupIds": [],
  "boundElements": null,
  "link": null,
  "locked": false
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 248 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 178ae99011f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw is a skill published in the GitHub repository aleksbuss/orchestra (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,005 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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