Agent skill

CLI Anything Drawio

Command-line interface for Drawio - A CLI harness for Draw.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line....

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Install CLI Anything Drawio

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .claude/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .claude/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .agents/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .agents/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .cursor/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .cursor/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git --path skills/cli-anything-drawio

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .gemini/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .gemini/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .github/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .github/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install HKUDS/CLI-Anything cli-anything-drawio --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cli-anything-drawio .opencode/skills/cli-anything-drawio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "cli-anything-drawio" agent skill from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/skills/cli-anything-drawio into .opencode/skills/cli-anything-drawio/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cli-anything-drawio", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: cli-anything-drawio
GitHub stars: 52k
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 455 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 78
Repo updated: Sep 22, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Command-line interface for Drawio - A CLI harness for Draw.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line....

Works in 5 steps: Always use --json flag for parseable… → Check return codes - 0 for success,… → Parse stderr for error messages on failure → …
Tasks that involve Diagrams
SKILL.md covers Installation, Usage, Command Groups and Examples, plus 5 more sections
Calls pip

What it does

CLI Anything Drawio is an agent skill from HKUDS/CLI-Anything. Command-line interface for Drawio - A CLI harness for Draw.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line....

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Diagrams. It works with draw.io. The repository describes itself as: "CLI-Anything: Making ALL Software Agent-Native" -- CLI-Hub: https://clianything.cc/. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Diagrams

Example prompts

“/cli-anything-drawio”

Requirements

Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Always use --json flag for parseable output
Check return codes - 0 for success, non-zero for errors
Parse stderr for error messages on failure
Use absolute paths for all file operations
Verify outputs exist after export operations

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 34f5195. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- pip
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

CLI Anything Drawio loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 455 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from HKUDS/CLI-Anything at commit 34f5195, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© HKUDS). 455 words, ~1,189 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cli-anything-drawio/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: cli-anything-drawio
description: Command-line interface for Drawio - A CLI harness for **Draw.io** — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line....

cli-anything-drawio

A CLI harness for Draw.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line.

Installation

This CLI is installed as part of the cli-anything-drawio package:

bash

pip install cli-anything-drawio

Prerequisites:

Python 3.10+
drawio must be installed on your system

Usage

Basic Commands

bash

# Show help
cli-anything-drawio --help

# Start interactive REPL mode
cli-anything-drawio

# Create a new project
cli-anything-drawio project new -o project.json

# Run with JSON output (for agent consumption)
cli-anything-drawio --json project info -p project.json

REPL Mode

When invoked without a subcommand, the CLI enters an interactive REPL session:

bash

cli-anything-drawio
# Enter commands interactively with tab-completion and history

Command Groups

Project

Project management: new, open, save, info.

Command	Description
`new`	Create a new blank diagram
`open`	Open an existing .drawio project file
`save`	Save the current project
`info`	Show detailed project information
`xml`	Print the raw XML of the current project
`presets`	List available page size presets

Shape

Shape operations: add, remove, move, resize, style.

Command	Description
`add`	Add a shape to the diagram
`remove`	Remove a shape by ID
`list`	List all shapes on a page
`label`	Update a shape's label text
`move`	Move a shape to new coordinates
`resize`	Resize a shape
`style`	Set a style property on a shape
`info`	Show detailed info about a shape
`types`	List all available shape types

Connect

Connector operations: add, remove, style.

Command	Description
`add`	Add a connector between two shapes
`remove`	Remove a connector by ID
`label`	Update a connector's label
`style`	Set a style property on a connector
`list`	List all connectors on a page
`styles`	List available edge styles

Page

Page operations: add, remove, rename, list.

Command	Description
`add`	Add a new page
`remove`	Remove a page by index
`rename`	Rename a page
`list`	List all pages

Export

Export operations: render to PNG, PDF, SVG.

Command	Description
`render`	Export the diagram to a file
`formats`	List available export formats

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Session

Session management: status, undo, redo.

Command	Description
`status`	Show current session status
`undo`	Undo the last operation
`redo`	Redo the last undone operation
`save-state`	Save session state to disk
`list`	List all saved sessions

Examples

Create a New Project

Create a new drawio project file.

bash

cli-anything-drawio project new -o myproject.json
# Or with JSON output for programmatic use
cli-anything-drawio --json project new -o myproject.json

Interactive REPL Session

Start an interactive session with undo/redo support.

bash

cli-anything-drawio
# Enter commands interactively
# Use 'help' to see available commands
# Use 'undo' and 'redo' for history navigation

Export Project

Export the project to a final output format.

bash

cli-anything-drawio --project myproject.json export render output.pdf --overwrite

State Management

The CLI maintains session state with:

Undo/Redo: Up to 50 levels of history
Project persistence: Save/load project state as JSON
Session tracking: Track modifications and changes

Output Formats

All commands support dual output modes:

Human-readable (default): Tables, colors, formatted text
Machine-readable (--json flag): Structured JSON for agent consumption

bash

# Human output
cli-anything-drawio project info -p project.json

# JSON output for agents
cli-anything-drawio --json project info -p project.json

For AI Agents

When using this CLI programmatically:

Always use --json flag for parseable output
Check return codes - 0 for success, non-zero for errors
Parse stderr for error messages on failure
Use absolute paths for all file operations
Verify outputs exist after export operations

More Information

Full documentation: See README.md in the package
Test coverage: See TEST.md in the package
Methodology: See HARNESS.md in the cli-anything-plugin

Version

1.0.0

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cli-anything-drawio of HKUDS/CLI-Anything.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 34f5195

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Questions about CLI Anything Drawio

What does CLI Anything Drawio do?

Command-line interface for Drawio - A CLI harness for Draw.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line.... CLI Anything Drawio is an agent skill from HKUDS/CLI-Anything.io — create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line....

When should I use CLI Anything Drawio?

CLI Anything Drawio fits situations like: tasks that involve Diagrams.

How do I install CLI Anything Drawio in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cli-anything-drawio in HKUDS/CLI-Anything) into .claude/skills/cli-anything-drawio in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install CLI Anything Drawio in Codex?

Run `npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cli-anything-drawio in HKUDS/CLI-Anything) into .agents/skills/cli-anything-drawio in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use CLI Anything Drawio in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-drawio -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cli-anything-drawio, .gemini/skills/cli-anything-drawio, .github/skills/cli-anything-drawio and .opencode/skills/cli-anything-drawio in your project.

What does CLI Anything Drawio need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, CLI Anything Drawio needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pip). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does CLI Anything Drawio access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is CLI Anything Drawio safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does CLI Anything Drawio use?

CLI Anything Drawio is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does CLI Anything Drawio use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to CLI Anything Drawio?

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Who maintains CLI Anything Drawio?

HKUDS (a GitHub organization) maintains it in HKUDS/CLI-Anything, which has 51,696 GitHub stars. The repository holds 78 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 22, 2026.

Source: HKUDS/CLI-Anything on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install CLI Anything Drawio

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

cli-anything-drawio

Installation

Usage

Basic Commands

REPL Mode

Command Groups

Project

Shape

Connect

Page

Export

Session

Examples

Create a New Project

Interactive REPL Session

Export Project

State Management

Output Formats

For AI Agents

More Information

Version

Files

Compare with similar skills

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