Excalidraw

by softaworks

Excalidraw is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by softaworks in agent-toolkit.

2.4K stars219 forkson softaworks/agent-toolkitAdded 2026/08/18+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/03/05

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Install Excalidraw

Copy Excalidraw into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit/tree/main/skills/excalidraw ~/.claude/skills/excalidraw

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/excalidraw/SKILL.md in softaworks/agent-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/excalidraw
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Excalidraw does

Excalidraw delegates all operations on .excalidraw files to subagents so the main agent never reads verbose diagram JSON directly, preventing context exhaustion. Use it whenever a diagram needs to be read, created, modified, or compared.

Excalidraw is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Excalidraw comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Each shape has 20+ properties (x, y, width, height, strokeColor, seed, version, etc.)
Most properties are visual metadata (positioning, styling, roughness)
Actual content: text labels and element relationships (<10% of file)
Signal-to-noise ratio is extremely low

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Excalidraw

What else does softaworks publish alongside Excalidraw?
Excalidraw is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from softaworks/agent-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 10x Mode, Add Skill and Agent MD Refactor. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Excalidraw does, and is maintained by softaworks in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the softaworks/agent-toolkit page.
How does Excalidraw compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Excalidraw ranks #821 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Excalidraw against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.