excalidraw-diagrams

excalidraw-diagrams is a skill for Claude Code from shaharsha/claude-skills. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and editing Excalidraw diagrams, which are hand-drawn-style visuals such as flowcharts, system maps, timelines, mind maps, and wireframes. It works through Excalidraw+, a service for storing and sharing these scenes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make or update flowcharts, architecture diagrams, process maps, timelines, mind maps, wireframes, and slide-like canvases.
Why use it?
It helps plan the visual structure before placing elements and avoids mistakes caused by the drawing service's specific rules.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the brand-and-visuals plugin — 4 skills shipped together , and of shaharsha-skills

Good fit Use it to make or update flowcharts, architecture diagrams, process maps, timelines, mind maps, wireframes, and slide-like canvases.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-and-visuals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,849 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 $0.00156 $0.01849
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00185

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9b5f70f0ede0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalidraw-diagrams 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/excalidraw_tools.py), 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-diagrams/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excalidraw diagrams (via the Excalidraw+ MCP)

Build scenes that read as a deliberate visual argument, not "boxes with text," and get them right the first time by knowing the MCP's non-obvious behaviours up front. The element JSON here is standard Excalidraw, so it also applies if you ever generate .excalidraw files directly — but this skill targets the hosted Excalidraw+ MCP (shareable scenes, collections), which is the usual case.

The workflow

  1. Plan the structure first (see reference/layout.md). Pick the family (workflow / architecture / timeline / hierarchy / comparison / cycle / slides), the reading direction, and the regions — before placing anything. The test: if you deleted every label, would the layout alone still convey the idea?
  2. Call read_excalidraw_format once before your first write this session. It's the MCP's own normative element guide (occasionally updated) and the server expects it. reference/elements.md is your fast working subset.
  3. Create or target a scene. New: create_scene (needs a collectionId — get it from list_collections). Existing: find it via list_scenes / get_workspace; to edit an earlier one, get real element IDs with search_scene_content. The shareable link is https://app.excalidraw.com/s/<workspace_id>/<scene_id> — both IDs come back in the create_scene metadata (workspace and id); give this link to the user.
  4. Add content with edit_scene_content — one coherent diagram per call. Build in placement order: regions/frames → containers → primary nodes → secondary nodes → labels → arrows (bound, once nodes are stable) → accents.
  5. Add icons where they help (reference/library-icons.md + the bundled script) — real Postgres/React/Docker/AWS icons, inserted via the MCP.
  6. Verify — this is mandatory, not optional (see "Verifying" below). Screenshot for layout, search_scene_content for text/geometry, fix, repeat.

Non-negotiables (each one silently ruins a diagram)

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 12d ago First seen · 120 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 9b5f70f0ede0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw-diagrams is a skill published in the GitHub repository shaharsha/claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,849 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 2026-08-31.

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