excalidraw

excalidraw is a skill for Claude Code from yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating editable Excalidraw diagrams as JSON files. Excalidraw is a diagram editor that lets you open, change, and rearrange visual explanations in a browser or VS Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for static architecture diagrams, multi-part concepts, and detailed data structures that benefit from grouped shapes, arrows, labels, and editable layouts.
Why use it?
It helps explain complex systems and relationships visually when plain text or a simple sketch would be difficult to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-teacher plugin — 15 skills, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for static architecture diagrams, multi-part concepts, and detailed data structures that benefit from grouped shapes, arrows, labels, and editable layouts.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-teacher

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-teacher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,994 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 $0.00104 $0.02994
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01497
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00599
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00299

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4faae6c1ad25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 2d 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.

skills/excalidraw/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requested topic/task: $ARGUMENTS

Before accessing education data, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/education-data.md. Resolve every <education-db> below using that contract. Current session ID: ${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}.

Excalidraw Diagram

Generate .excalidraw JSON files with detailed educational explanations. Produces interactive, editable diagrams the student can open in excalidraw.com or the VS Code Excalidraw extension.

Invocation

/claude-teacher:excalidraw <concept description>


Philosophy

Diagrams Should ARGUE, Not DISPLAY

A diagram is not a picture — it is a visual argument. Every shape, arrow, and color must advance the student's understanding. If an element does not teach something, remove it.

Isomorphism Test

If you removed ALL text from the diagram, would the spatial structure alone communicate the concept? The layout, grouping, arrow directions, and color coding should carry meaning independently of labels.

Education Test

Could someone who knows nothing about this topic learn something concrete from this diagram? Not just "see a pretty picture" but actually understand a relationship, flow, or structure they did not understand before.


Reference Files (Read Before Generating)

Before generating any diagram, read these reference files:

  1. ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/color-palette.md — semantic color system, text colors, sizing
  2. ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/element-templates.md — copy-paste JSON for every element type
  3. ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/json-schema.md — property tables, binding rules, options

These files contain the exact hex codes, JSON templates, and schema details needed to produce valid diagrams. Do not rely on memory — read them.


Depth Assessment

Before building, assess the complexity the student needs:

Simple / Conceptual

  • Abstract shapes, overview flows, high-level architecture
  • 5-15 elements total
  • No evidence artifacts needed
  • One zoom level

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 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. 2d ago Changed · +4 lines · +15 tokens per session 4faae6c1ad25
  2. 10d ago First seen · 312 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A c8b7fd1e110a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excalidraw is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,994 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 2026-08-31.

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