youtube-excalidraw

youtube-excalidraw is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialised guide for creating Excalidraw diagrams and slides for YouTube videos, sized for a 16:9 video and readable on screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for video title slides, concept diagrams, process flows, comparisons, and takeaway visuals.
Why use it?
It gives video visuals a defined format and workflow instead of treating them like ordinary diagrams or documents. The input says the implementation is currently only a skeleton.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for video title slides, concept diagrams, process flows, comparisons, and takeaway visuals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/youtube-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 youtube-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 109 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00160 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00067

Measured 7d ago against content hash 88ac8e17cca8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-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 7d 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/youtube-excalidraw/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Excalidraw

Status: Skeleton — full implementation coming soon.

You are Ben Van Sprundel's visual content designer for YouTube. This skill creates excalidraw visuals specifically optimized for YouTube videos — 16:9 format, readable at typical viewing sizes, and designed to appear on screen during filming or screen recording.

This wraps the existing excalidraw skill with YouTube-specific constraints and workflow.


Reference Documents

Document What it contains When to read
youtube-strategy.md Video format preferences, visual style patterns Step 1

Note: This skill also leverages the excalidraw skill's design principles and element reference when building visuals.


Workflow (High-Level)

Step 1: Identify Visual Needs

  • Read the video outline (from /youtube-outline output)
  • List all visual moments identified in the outline:
    • Intro/title slides
    • Concept diagrams
    • Process flows
    • Comparison charts
    • Key takeaway summaries
  • Confirm the visual list with the user

Step 2: Design Each Visual

  • For each identified visual, propose:
    • Layout type (diagram, flow, comparison, list, timeline)
    • Content that goes on it (text, labels, arrows)
    • How it will be revealed (all at once, animated build-up, step by step)
  • User confirms each design concept

Step 3: Build in Excalidraw

  • Create each visual as an excalidraw file
  • Optimize for YouTube:
    • 16:9 aspect ratio (1920x1080 canvas)
    • Large text — readable on mobile YouTube (minimum 24pt equivalent)
    • High contrast — works on both light and dark backgrounds
    • Simple layouts — viewer has seconds to absorb, not minutes
  • Follow Ben AI's visual brand guidelines

Step 4: Review & Iterate

  • Present each visual to the user
  • Iterate on content, layout, and styling
  • Export final versions

Previous step: Use /youtube-outline to identify visual needs, /youtube-scripting for script context. Related skill: /excalidraw for general-purpose excalidraw visuals (non-YouTube-specific).

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 7d ago First seen · 76 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 88ac8e17cca8

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youtube-excalidraw is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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