Excalidraw agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

3 ready-made playbooks that teach an AI agent how to do real Excalidraw work: which tools to call, what to check first, and when to stop and ask you.

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Connect Excalidraw once and all 3 skills install themselves and stay up to date. Mac, Windows and Linux.

All 3 Excalidraw skills

Each skill is one job. You ask in plain words and the agent loads the skill that matches, then follows its steps.

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Use Excalidraw with AI safely and well

Guides the AI to pick the right Excalidraw tool for drawing, saving, restoring or exporting, and to ask before anything that writes a checkpoint or export.

Use it when

You want the AI to sketch an architecture or flow diagram in Excalidraw
You need to save a drawing before a risky change and restore it later
An Excalidraw export or checkpoint call failed or came back empty

Tools it uses

read_me
create_view
export_to_excalidraw
save_checkpoint
read_checkpoint

Example

Draw a simple architecture diagram of a web app with a load balancer, two API servers and a database, and save it as a checkpoint called before-refactor.

I'll render the diagram first with create_view, starting with the load balancer, two API servers and the database connected in order. Once you're happy with the layout, I'll save it as a checkpoint named before-refactor. Shall I go ahead with that save?

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Checkpoint and export an Excalidraw diagram

Saves a named checkpoint before risky edits, reads one back to recover earlier state, and exports the finished drawing to Excalidraw format. It asks before restoring over the current work.

Use it when

Before reworking a diagram you have not backed up yet
Recovering an earlier version of a drawing after a bad edit
Getting a finished diagram as a file you can share or edit in Excalidraw

Tools it uses

read_checkpoint
save_checkpoint
export_to_excalidraw
read_me

Example

Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.

I saved a checkpoint named architecture-before-db-split, so the current layout is preserved before you change anything. I then exported the diagram to Excalidraw format. Let me know when the database split is done and I can save a new checkpoint from that state.

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Diagram from description

Turns a plain-language description of a system, flow or sketch into a clean hand-drawn Excalidraw diagram. It plans the structure first, renders it, then refines the result instead of drawing in one pass.

Use it when

You describe an architecture and want it drawn as boxes and arrows
You need a process or flow sketched from a few sentences of notes
You want a quick hand-drawn sketch of an idea for a slide or document

Tools it uses

create_view
save_checkpoint
export_to_excalidraw

Example

Draw an architecture diagram showing a user connecting to an API server which talks to a database

Drawn as an architecture diagram with 4 nodes: user, API server, database and cache. I left out the load balancer and auth service because you did not mention them. The API server reads from the cache before querying the database.

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RevampKey adds the skills when you connect Excalidraw, updates them for you and removes them when you disconnect.

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How Excalidraw skills work

Connect Excalidraw
The Excalidraw MCP server gives the agent its tools.
Ask in plain words
“Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.” Each SKILL.md says when it applies, so only the one that fits is loaded.
Approve any change
The agent calls the tools in order, checks its work, and shows you any change before it makes it.

How to install Excalidraw skills

In RevampKey the skills install themselves when you connect Excalidraw. In other tools each skill is one folder with a SKILL.md file, and you also need the Excalidraw MCP server connected there.

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Ask in plain language, for example “Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.”
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for s in essentials checkpoint-and-export-diagram diagram-from-description; do curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/excalidraw-app-demo-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/excalidraw-app-demo/skills/$s/SKILL.md done
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Into this project’s .claude/skills folder

Connect the Excalidraw MCP server in Claude Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 3 skills:

for s in essentials checkpoint-and-export-diagram diagram-from-description; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/excalidraw-app-demo-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/excalidraw-app-demo/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Excalidraw MCP server in Cursor.

Run this in your project folder to add all 3 skills:

for s in essentials checkpoint-and-export-diagram diagram-from-description; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/excalidraw-app-demo-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/excalidraw-app-demo/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Excalidraw MCP server in Codex.

Run this in your project folder to add all 3 skills:

for s in essentials checkpoint-and-export-diagram diagram-from-description; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/excalidraw-app-demo-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/excalidraw-app-demo/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Excalidraw MCP server in VS Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 3 skills:

for s in essentials checkpoint-and-export-diagram diagram-from-description; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/excalidraw-app-demo-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/excalidraw-app-demo/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Save this architecture diagram as a checkpoint before I split the database, then export it so I can send it to the team.”

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In RevampKey

One click when you connect Excalidraw
Updated for you when a skill improves
Removed when you disconnect
The MCP server is set up for you
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You connect the Excalidraw MCP server yourself
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Excalidraw skills FAQ

What is a Excalidraw agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Excalidraw skill describes one job, which Excalidraw tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

Do the Excalidraw skills change anything on their own?

3 of the 3 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Excalidraw.

Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Excalidraw; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

Do I need the Excalidraw MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Excalidraw MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Excalidraw MCP setup guide covers every client.

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All 3 Excalidraw skills

Use Excalidraw with AI safely and well

Use it when

Tools it uses

Checkpoint and export an Excalidraw diagram

Use it when

Tools it uses

Diagram from description

Use it when

Tools it uses

Get all 3 without copying a file

How Excalidraw skills work

How to install Excalidraw skills

RevampKey or copy the files?

In RevampKey

Copy into your project

Excalidraw skills FAQ

Put Excalidraw’s best workflows in your agent

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