Diagram Design
cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Creates branded diagrams, from architecture, flowchart and sequence to charts and maps, as self-contained HTML with inline SVG, with import from draw.io, Mermaid and Excalidraw.
Generate hand-drawn style Excalidraw diagrams from text descriptions
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guide --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .claude/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .claude/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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 install https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guideType 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.
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guide --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .agents/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .agents/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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.
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guide --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .cursor/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .cursor/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git --path skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guide --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .gemini/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .gemini/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guideInstalls 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).
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .github/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .github/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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.
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins excalidraw-diagram-guide --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide .opencode/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "excalidraw-diagram-guide" agent skill from https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins/tree/main/skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide into .opencode/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "excalidraw-diagram-guide", 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.
excalidraw-diagram-guideGenerate hand-drawn style Excalidraw diagrams from text descriptions
Excalidraw Diagram Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Generate hand-drawn style Excalidraw diagrams from text descriptions
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 Excalidraw. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json, html and python).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:
excalidraw.comAlso links to:
github.comlibraries.excalidraw.comdocs.excalidraw.comFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Excalidraw Diagram Guide loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 504 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 504 words, ~1,584 tokens.
.claude/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Generate hand-drawn style diagrams, wireframes, and visual explanations using Excalidraw's open-source whiteboard format. This skill enables researchers to create informal yet informative sketches for brainstorming sessions, presentations, and collaborative workshops.
Excalidraw is an open-source virtual whiteboard tool that produces diagrams with a distinctive hand-drawn aesthetic. Unlike formal diagramming tools such as PlantUML or Visio, Excalidraw prioritizes approachability and rapid ideation. Its output looks intentionally informal, which makes it well-suited for early-stage research brainstorming, teaching materials, and conference posters where a polished UML diagram would feel overly rigid.
The tool stores diagrams in a JSON-based .excalidraw format, making them fully version-controllable and programmatically generatable. Researchers can describe what they need in natural language, and this skill translates those descriptions into valid Excalidraw scene files that can be opened in the Excalidraw editor or embedded directly into web pages.
Excalidraw supports real-time collaboration, end-to-end encryption for shared sessions, and export to PNG and SVG. The hand-drawn style is achieved through a custom rendering engine that applies subtle randomization to stroke paths, giving each element a natural, sketched appearance.
The Excalidraw JSON format consists of an array of elements, each with a type (rectangle, ellipse, arrow, text, line, diamond), position coordinates, dimensions, and style properties.
{
"type": "rectangle",
"x": 100,
"y": 200,
"width": 200,
"height": 80,
"strokeColor": "#1e1e1e",
"backgroundColor": "#a5d8ff",
"fillStyle": "hachure",
"strokeWidth": 1,
"roughness": 1,
"roundness": { "type": 3 }
}| Property | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
fillStyle | hachure, cross-hatch, solid | Fill pattern style |
roughness | 0, 1, 2 | Hand-drawn roughness level |
strokeWidth | 1, 2, 4 | Line thickness |
strokeStyle | solid, dashed, dotted | Line style |
roundness | null, { "type": 3 } | Corner rounding |
Primary: #1971c2 (blue) Background: #a5d8ff
Accent: #e03131 (red) Background: #ffc9c9
Success: #2f9e44 (green) Background: #b2f2bb
Warning: #f08c00 (orange) Background: #ffec99
Neutral: #495057 (gray) Background: #dee2e6Describe a research pipeline and generate the corresponding layout:
Input: "Create a flowchart showing: Literature Review -> Research Questions ->
Hypothesis Formation -> Study Design -> Data Collection -> Analysis ->
Results -> Discussion -> Publication"Each step becomes a rounded rectangle connected by arrows. Decision points (e.g., "Results Significant?") use diamond shapes with branching arrows.
For software or experimental system diagrams, use grouped rectangles with labeled connections:
Input: "Draw a system architecture with three layers:
Frontend (React dashboard),
Backend (FastAPI + PostgreSQL),
External (OpenAlex API, CrossRef API)"The output places each layer as a dashed-border container with internal component boxes and inter-layer arrows.
exportScale: 2 for high-DPI output.<iframe
src="https://excalidraw.com/#json=YOUR_ENCODED_DATA"
width="800"
height="600"
style="border: none;">
</iframe>import json
def create_box(text, x, y, width=200, height=80, color="#a5d8ff"):
return [
{
"type": "rectangle",
"x": x, "y": y,
"width": width, "height": height,
"backgroundColor": color,
"fillStyle": "hachure",
"roughness": 1,
"strokeWidth": 1
},
{
"type": "text",
"x": x + 10, "y": y + 25,
"text": text,
"fontSize": 16
}
]
scene = {
"type": "excalidraw",
"version": 2,
"elements": create_box("Literature Review", 100, 100)
+ create_box("Data Analysis", 100, 250)
}
with open("research_flow.excalidraw", "w") as f:
json.dump(scene, f, indent=2)Excalidraw supports live collaboration through shared session links. Each participant sees real-time cursor positions and edits. Sessions can be encrypted end-to-end using the built-in encryption feature, which is important when sketching unpublished research ideas.
For research teams, the recommended workflow is:
.excalidraw JSON and commit to the project repository\includesvg{} (requires svg package)IPython.display.Image.excalidraw files in the IDE© wentorai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Excalidraw Diagram Guide next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excalidraw Diagram Guide this skillwentorai/research-plugins | 298 | 1 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Diagram Designcathrynlavery/diagram-design | 49k | 1 repos | ~7.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Excalidraw Diagramcoleam00/excalidraw-diagram-skill | 5k | 2 repos | ~6.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Excalidraw Diagrambreferrari/obsidian-mind | 5k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Excalidraw Skillyctimlin/mcp_excalidraw | 2.5k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Lanshu Animated Architecture Diagramcclank/lanshu-animated-architecture-diagram | 995 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Creates branded diagrams, from architecture, flowchart and sequence to charts and maps, as self-contained HTML with inline SVG, with import from draw.io, Mermaid and Excalidraw.
coleam00/excalidraw-diagram-skill
Create Excalidraw diagram JSON files that make visual arguments.
breferrari/obsidian-mind
Generate Excalidraw diagrams from text content. An agent skill from breferrari/obsidian-mind.
yctimlin/mcp_excalidraw
Excalidraw canvas toolkit for creating, editing, and refining diagrams on a live canvas.
cclank/lanshu-animated-architecture-diagram
Create premium hand-drawn architecture and process diagrams in the Lanshu animated GIF style, with editable .excalidraw files, static PNG previews, and genuinely animated GIFs with moving flow…
tech-leads-club/agent-skills
Generates Excalidraw diagram files from plain descriptions, choosing among flowcharts, mind maps, architecture, swimlane, class, sequence and ER diagrams.
wentorai/research-plugins
Craft structured research abstracts that maximize clarity and journal acceptance
wentorai/research-plugins
Manage academic citations across BibTeX, APA, MLA, and Chicago formats
wentorai/research-plugins
Summarize academic papers with structured extraction of key elements
wentorai/research-plugins
Evidence-based study techniques for academic learning and retention
wentorai/research-plugins
Adjust writing tone and register for academic audiences and venues
wentorai/research-plugins
Academic translation, post-editing, and Chinglish correction guide
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Generate hand-drawn style Excalidraw diagrams from text descriptions. Excalidraw Diagram Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.
Excalidraw Diagram Guide fits situations like: tasks that involve Diagrams.
Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/tools/diagram/excalidraw-diagram-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill excalidraw-diagram-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide, .gemini/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide, .github/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide and .opencode/skills/excalidraw-diagram-guide in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Excalidraw Diagram Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.
SKILL.md names 4 domains. In commands or code: excalidraw.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: github.com, libraries.excalidraw.com and docs.excalidraw.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
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.
Excalidraw Diagram Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Excalidraw Diagram Guide: Diagram Design (cathrynlavery/diagram-design, 49k stars), Excalidraw Diagram (coleam00/excalidraw-diagram-skill, 5k stars), Excalidraw Diagram (breferrari/obsidian-mind, 5k stars) and Excalidraw Skill (yctimlin/mcp_excalidraw, 2.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.
Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.