excalidraw-skill

excalidraw-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp. It costs 154 tokens per session (4,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A toolkit for creating and editing Excalidraw diagrams, which are hand-drawn-style diagrams made on a digital canvas. It can work through connected MCP tools or a local web API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draw diagrams, refine them while viewing the live canvas, and import or export diagram content.
Why use it?
It removes the need to place shapes, labels, and arrows manually or build the diagram data format yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to draw diagrams, refine them while viewing the live canvas, and import or export diagram content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp/excalidraw-skill
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 iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp --skill excalidraw-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,496 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 33
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 34
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 162
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00154 $0.04496
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.02248
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00899
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00450

Measured 12d ago against content hash e1e2fcbf179b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw-skill scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/clear-canvas.cjs, scripts/create-element.cjs, scripts/delete-element.cjs, …), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. Optional: `curl -X DELETE http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/elements/clear`
Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/excalidraw-skill/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw Skill

Step 0: Determine Connection Mode

Two modes are available. Try MCP first — it has more capabilities.

MCP mode (preferred): If excalidraw/batch_create_elements and other excalidraw/* tools appear in your tool list, use them directly. MCP tools handle label and arrow binding format automatically.

REST API mode (fallback): If MCP tools aren't available, use HTTP endpoints at http://127.0.0.1:3000. See the cheatsheet for REST payloads. Note the format differences in the table below — REST and MCP accept slightly different field names.

Neither works? Tell the user:

The Excalidraw canvas server is not running. To set up:

  1. git clone https://github.com/iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp && cd excalidraw-icons-mcp
  2. npm ci && npm run build
  3. PORT=3000 npm run canvas
  4. Open http://127.0.0.1:3000 in a browser
  5. (Recommended) Install the MCP server: claude mcp add excalidraw -s user -e EXPRESS_SERVER_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3000 -- node /path/to/excalidraw-icons-mcp/dist/index.js

MCP vs REST API Quick Reference

Operation MCP Tool REST API Equivalent
Create elements batch_create_elements POST /api/elements/batch
Get all elements query_elements GET /api/elements
Get one element get_element GET /api/elements/:id
Update element update_element PUT /api/elements/:id
Delete element delete_element DELETE /api/elements/:id
Clear canvas clear_canvas DELETE /api/elements/clear
Describe scene describe_scene GET /api/elements (parse manually)
Export scene export_scene GET /api/elements (save to file)
Import scene import_scene POST /api/elements/sync
Snapshot snapshot_scene POST /api/snapshots
Restore snapshot restore_snapshot GET /api/snapshots/:name then POST /api/elements/sync
Screenshot get_canvas_screenshot POST /api/export/image (needs browser)
Viewport set_viewport POST /api/viewport (needs browser)
Export image export_to_image POST /api/export/image (needs browser)
Export URL export_to_excalidraw_url Only via MCP

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 304 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A e1e2fcbf179b

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excalidraw-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository iagogfe/excalidraw-icons-mcp (31 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 4,496 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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