diagram-design

diagram-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents. It costs 16 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing research diagrams with Excalidraw, a tool for making diagrams on a shared canvas. It explains when to use flowcharts, timelines, trees, architecture diagrams, and other layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and build research diagrams for comparisons, multi-step processes, system parts, timelines, hierarchies, and data flows.
Why use it?
It helps turn comparisons, processes, systems, and relationships into diagrams that are easier to read. It also provides a workflow for arranging, checking, and grouping diagram elements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan and build research diagrams for comparisons, multi-step processes, system parts, timelines, hierarchies, and data flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/diagram-design
About the project

Pydantic Deep Agents is a self-hosted terminal AI assistant and Python framework for building coding, research, and other AI agents. It gives agents tools such as file access, shell commands, planning, memory, sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and MCP connections, and supports different models.

vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents · 1,061 stars · on GitHub · vstorm-co.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents --skill diagram-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash a186b9ed02a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagram-design 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 11d 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.

apps/deepresearch/skills/diagram-design/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagram Design Guide for Research

When to Create Diagrams

Create a diagram when your research findings involve:

  • Comparing 3+ options — comparison table or matrix diagram
  • Process with 4+ steps — flowchart or sequence diagram
  • System with multiple components — architecture diagram
  • Chronological events — timeline
  • Hierarchical relationships — tree or mind map
  • Data flows — data flow diagram

Excalidraw Workflow

  1. Plan the diagram — decide type, elements, and layout before creating
  2. Create elements — use create_element or batch_create_elements
  3. Arrange — use align_elements and distribute_elements for clean layout
  4. Inspect — use describe_scene to verify the diagram looks right
  5. Adjust — use update_element to fix positioning or text
  6. Group — use group_elements to lock related items together

Note: Do NOT export or share links — the user sees a live embedded canvas that auto-syncs.

Color Palette

Use consistent colors across diagrams:

Purpose Color Hex
Primary concepts Blue #1971c2
Positive / supported Green #2f9e44
Negative / limitations Red #e03131
Warning / caveats Orange #e8590c
Neutral / context Gray #868e96
Highlight / focus Yellow #f08c00

Layout Patterns

  • Top-to-bottom: Process flows, decision trees, timelines
  • Left-to-right: Comparisons, before/after, pipelines
  • Radial / center-out: Concept maps, mind maps
  • Grid: Feature matrices, comparison tables

Element Guidelines

Text

  • Use short labels (2-4 words per element)
  • Title font size: 20-24px
  • Label font size: 14-16px
  • Add detail in sub-labels, not element titles

Shapes

  • Rectangles: Processes, components, entities
  • Diamonds: Decision points
  • Ellipses: Start/end points, concepts
  • Rectangles with rounded corners: Groups, categories

Arrows

  • Solid arrows: Direct relationships, data flow
  • Dashed arrows: Optional paths, indirect relationships
  • Label arrows to clarify the relationship

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 11d ago First seen · 113 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A a186b9ed02a8

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diagram-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents (1,061 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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