diagramming

diagramming is a skill for Claude Code from xobotyi/cc-foundry. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating technical diagrams that show systems, processes, data flows, or relationships using tools such as Mermaid and Excalidraw.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose a diagram format, arrange its parts, and improve readability and visual structure.
Why use it?
It helps turn complex technical information into diagrams that are easier to read and maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Part of the the-blueprint plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps choose a diagram format, arrange its parts, and improve readability and visual structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/diagramming
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 xobotyi/cc-foundry --skill diagramming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xobotyi/cc-foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-blueprint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent.

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 diagramming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/diagramming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/diagramming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/diagramming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/diagramming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 diagramming

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,189 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 $0.00056 $0.02189
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00219

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1f713f15663a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagramming 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 5d 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/the-blueprint/skills/diagramming/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagramming

Understandable first, beautiful second. Every diagram exists to communicate — if it fails to communicate, aesthetics are irrelevant. When both are achievable, pursue both.

References

  • Visual design principles — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/design-principles.md] Gestalt principles, grid system, spacing rules, color palette, typography, complexity budgets, anti-patterns, Tufte's data-ink principle
  • Excalidraw format — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/excalidraw.md] JSON schema, element types, styling properties, arrow binding, layout templates (linear, grid, radial, tiered, decision tree), diagram type conventions
  • Mermaid syntax — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/mermaid.md] Flowchart, sequence, class, state, ER diagram syntax, theming, per-node styling, subgraphs

Format Selection

Choose the format that matches the delivery context:

Use Mermaid when:

  • The diagram lives in markdown (README, design doc, PR description, wiki)
  • Auto-layout is acceptable — precise element positioning is not required
  • The diagram type maps to a Mermaid-supported type
  • Version-control readability matters (text diffs)
  • Quick iteration speed matters more than visual refinement

Use Excalidraw when:

  • Precise spatial layout is needed (architecture diagrams with specific grouping)
  • The diagram needs freeform elements that don't fit a standard type
  • Visual polish matters — color coding, consistent spacing, professional appearance
  • The diagram will be used in presentations, external documentation, or design reviews
  • The diagram needs to be manually editable after generation

Core Design Rules

These rules apply to every diagram regardless of format. They are non-negotiable.

  • Consistent shapes — same concept type uses the same shape everywhere in the diagram. All services are rectangles. All databases are cylinders. All decisions are diamonds. Never vary shapes for the same concept.
  • Consistent flow direction — pick one direction (top-to-bottom or left-to-right) and maintain it for all relationships of the same type within the diagram.
  • Semantic color — color encodes meaning (tier, status, domain), never decoration. Maximum 2–3 accent colors per diagram. Use the semantic palette from the design-principles reference.
  • Label everything that isn't obvious — every arrow in a complex diagram gets a label. Every color gets a legend entry. If a reader has to guess what something means, the diagram has failed.
  • Whitespace is structure — group related elements tightly, separate groups with 2x the intra-group gap. When in doubt, add more space.
  • Complexity budget — if a diagram exceeds 20 elements, split it. Create a high-level overview + detail diagrams. No exceptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 217 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1f713f15663a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagramming is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,189 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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