excalidraw-use

excalidraw-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for placing existing images on an Excalidraw whiteboard, where people arrange drawings and images on a shared canvas. It can also turn slide decks into images and inspect Excalidraw files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build an image tray on a board, convert slides into per-slide images, or inspect the contents and size of an Excalidraw file.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of adding and arranging many screenshots or slide images. It also helps check what a board file contains without confusing that job with drawing a new diagram.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gstack. Also seen: built for gstack.

Good fit Use it to build an image tray on a board, convert slides into per-slide images, or inspect the contents and size of an Excalidraw file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/excalidraw-use
About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,384 stars · on GitHub

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 daymade/claude-code-skills --skill excalidraw-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin excalidraw-use/plugin install excalidraw-use after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,193 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 97
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 124
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00175 $0.02193
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01097
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00219

Measured 4d ago against content hash 50345e19af49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw-use 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 4 executable files (scripts/build_scene.py, scripts/inspect_scene.py, scripts/shoot_deck.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.

excalidraw-use/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw: images onto a board

Excalidraw is a whiteboard people draw on live. This skill covers the part that is fiddly to do by hand: getting a lot of existing images onto a board, laid out so nobody has to drag them apart afterwards.

It does not generate diagrams from prose. If the request is "draw the architecture" or "make a flowchart", that is a diagram-generation job — several tools and skills do it, including a diagram skill in the gstack suite if the user has it installed.

Which job is this?

The user says Go to
"put these images on my board", "add the old screenshots to the canvas" Job 1 — build a pick tray
"turn the deck into images", "screenshot every slide" Job 2 — deck to images, then Job 1
"what's in this file", "how big is this board", "is anything broken" Job 3 — inspect
"draw me a flowchart from this description" not this skill

Job 1 — build a pick tray of images

python3 scripts/build_scene.py \
  --out tray.excalidraw \
  --cols 6 \
  --template-from ~/path/to/their-board.excalidraw \
  --exclude already-placed.png \
  images/*.png

Expected output — if you do not see the verified: line, the file is not usable:

verified: 30 image element(s), hashes match, no overlap
placed 30 image(s), 6 x 5 grid, min gap 600
wrote tray.excalidraw (3.5 MB)

Hand the user the file plus how to get it onto their board. That second half is where this goes wrong: at excalidraw.com, both Open and drag-and-drop replace the entire current scene. Telling someone to "open this file" when they have a live board is telling them to lose it. The additive route is the clipboard — full instructions and the reasoning in references/paste_workflow.md. Read it before you write the hand-off message.

Three decisions worth making deliberately:

  • --template-from whenever they have an existing board. Excalidraw's published JSON schema documents the top-level shape and the files map, but not the image element's own fields (fileId, status, scale, crop), so copying a live element from their board is the only way to be sure the field set matches the build they actually run. Without it a reasonable default is used, which has worked but is one observed field set, not a spec. references/scene_file_format.md has the field-by-field breakdown, keeping what the official docs state separate from what was read off a real file — open it when you need to hand-build or repair a scene rather than let the script write one.
  • --exclude anything already on their board. The check is by image content, not filename, so a renamed copy is still caught. Skipping this is how someone ends up with the same picture twice and has to delete one by hand.
  • Spacing. --cell is the longest side each image is scaled to; --pitch is the distance between cell centres. The gap is pitch - cell, and the defaults (800 / 1400 → 600) are deliberately generous. If a user has ever said "don't make me fix the spacing again", raise --pitch, don't lower it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 184 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 50345e19af49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,384 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,193 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-05.

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