excalidraw-architecture

excalidraw-architecture is a skill for Codex from cubxxw/agent-kit. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating and revising editable Excalidraw diagrams, a hand-drawn style of collaborative whiteboarding. It supports architecture exploration, workshops, narrative maps, and SVG or PNG handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for collaborative architecture discussions, open-ended system exploration, workshops, evolving diagrams, and polished exports for sharing.
Why use it?
It keeps alternatives, questions, and uncertainty visible while a technical idea is still being worked out, instead of making an early sketch look final.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for collaborative architecture discussions, open-ended system exploration, workshops, evolving diagrams, and polished exports for sharing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cubxxw/agent-kit/excalidraw-architecture
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 cubxxw/agent-kit --skill excalidraw-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cubxxw/agent-kit

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,411 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 $0.00120 $0.01411
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00564
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00141

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5312f1dea33a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw-architecture 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/render-excalidraw.mjs, scripts/validate-excalidraw.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/excalidraw-architecture/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw Architecture

Create diagrams that explain a decision or route, not decorated inventories.

Choose the medium

Read tool-choice.md whenever the request could fit both Excalidraw and Archify.

  • Use Excalidraw when the artifact must help people think together: the structure is still moving, alternatives and questions matter, live editing is central, or hand-drawn language usefully avoids false precision.
  • Use Archify when the artifact must freeze an inspectable technical claim: typed topology, repository evidence, architecture deltas, multiple reading depths, route exploration, deterministic validation, or formal delivery.
  • Use both in sequence when discovery is genuinely needed: explore in Excalidraw, freeze the accepted facts and question, then author fresh typed Archify IR. Never convert the sketch geometry mechanically.

If a strict offline or zero-external-request artifact is required, prefer the local Excalidraw export unless the Archify delivery has been explicitly made offline-safe.

Choose the working mode

  • Workshop mode: expose competing routes, assumptions, questions, and decision points. Keep uncertainty visible and leave room for people to move the scene. Optimize for conversation, not final polish.
  • Delivery mode: copy the accepted structure into a clean scene, remove abandoned branches, freeze connector semantics, and run the full render and screenshot gate below.

Do not mix a messy workshop history and a final architecture claim in one canvas. Preserve the workshop source separately when its reasoning history is valuable.

Deliverables

Unless the user narrows the request, deliver:

  1. editable .excalidraw;
  2. reviewable .svg and .png;
  3. a one-paragraph reading guide;
  4. the final scene opened in Excalidraw when browser delivery is useful.

In workshop mode, the editable .excalidraw is mandatory; rendered outputs are optional unless the user needs an async review snapshot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 131 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 5312f1dea33a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository cubxxw/agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,411 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-23.

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