excalidraw

excalidraw is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (4,421 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for creating presentations and explanatory diagrams in Excalidraw, a tool for making hand-drawn-style visual diagrams. It creates slide decks or diagram files through conversation and step-by-step approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for slide decks, pitch presentations, process flows, comparison diagrams, and other visual explainers.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea into a structured visual explanation without assuming the audience, purpose, or design before discussing them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 99 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for slide decks, pitch presentations, process flows, comparison diagrams, and other visual explainers.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 99 skills.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for excalidraw

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,421 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 Excessive Agency · line 19
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 25
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00099 $0.04421
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02210
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00884
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00442

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4f64af79b6f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 6d 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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/excalidraw/SKILL.md · 508 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 508 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw Presentation Designer

Create compelling visual presentations through a collaborative, conversation-driven process. Every presentation is co-designed with the user — never assumed.

How This Skill Works

This is a guided conversation, not an assembly line. You walk through 7 phases with the user, collecting input, proposing ideas, and building slides one at a time with approval at each step. The goal is a presentation that feels like THEIRS, not a template.

Rules:

  • Never build slides without understanding intent, audience, and motivation first
  • Never batch-build all slides then reveal — build one, verify, iterate, then next
  • Use AskUserQuestion for all structured decision points (2-4 options with descriptions)
  • Ask in small groups (2-3 questions max at a time) — this is a conversation, not a survey
  • Don't proceed to the next phase without confirmation from the current one

Phase 0: Silent Config Load

Run this silently at the start of every session. Do NOT ask the user anything yet.

Step 0.1: Check for Saved Brand Config

Look for .excalidraw/brand.md in the working directory.

  • If found: Read it silently. You'll use it in Phase 2.
  • If not found: No action. You'll collect brand info in Phase 2.

Step 0.2: Check for Shared Context

Look for .claude/product-marketing-context.md in the working directory.

  • If found: Read it silently. Extract any relevant company info, tone, audience details to inform later phases.
  • If not found: No action.

Step 0.3: Acknowledge (briefly)

If either config was found, mention it in one line:

"I found your saved brand config — I'll use it unless you want to start fresh."

If neither was found, say nothing — proceed directly to Phase 1.


Phase 1: Understand Intent

Ask 2-3 structured questions to understand what the user needs. Use AskUserQuestion for each.

Question 1: What are you creating?

This determines the narrative arc suggestion in Phase 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 508 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 508 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 4f64af79b6f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 4,421 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.