excalidraw SKILL.md skillA

excalidraw from plexito-de/honed-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add plexito-de/honed-skills/excalidraw@v1.2.0

Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
plexito-de/honed-skills
Path
skills/excalidraw/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.2.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 10, 2026
Size
19,979 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
Apache-2.0

Use when producing a diagram as a .excalidraw file, or when asked for an architecture, flow, sequence, tree, mind map, org chart, timeline, network, ERD, swimlane, kanban or wireframe drawing that should look hand-drawn. Writes a short spec and expands it deterministically with measured font metrics, real layout and correct arrow bindings, then lints and renders it. Triggers on excalidraw, diagram, sketch, whiteboard, architecture diagram, flowchart, sequence diagram, mind map, hand-drawn, and…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Excalidraw diagrams

## The contract

**Write a spec. Never write `.excalidraw` JSON by hand.** A spec of 20 to 60 lines becomes hundreds of lines of correct JSON, and the three things a model is worst at are done by code instead:

| Problem | Why hand-writing fails | What does it here |
|---|---|---|
| Coordinates | Placing boxes is arithmetic, and the failure is visible: overlapping nodes, arrows through shapes | A layout pass with deterministic tie-breaks |
| Text width | **Excalidraw never re-measures text on open.** `restoreElements` runs without `refreshDimensions`, so a wrong stored width silently clips glyphs | Advance widths measured in a browser against the real fonts |
| Invariants | Most violations open fine and look wrong, so nothing tells you | A linter that runs before you look |

```bash
S=~/.claude/skills/excalidraw/scripts
python3 $S/exdraw.py mydiagram.yaml -o mydiagram.excalidraw   # build
python3 $S/exlint.py mydiagram.excalidraw                     # MANDATORY, before looking
python3 $S/exfidelity.py source.mmd mydiagram.excalidraw      # only when redrawn from Mermaid
python3 $S/exsvg.py mydiagram.excalidraw -o preview.svg       # deterministic preview
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add plexito-de/honed-skills/excalidraw@sha256:bc4dfb0b61e40e13

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_frebjysdhn5qjyk2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_frebjysdhn5qjyk2)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 10, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 10 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.2.0 latest2026-10-20 2079a3f 19,979 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-10-02 90bfac9 15,406 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-29 26555a5 15,337 BA view · diff
v1.12026-09-29 b0dc8e3 15,335 BA view · diff
v1.02026-09-10 19e7316 15,202 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19979 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

plexito-de/honed-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_frebjysdhn5qjyk2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=plexito-de/honed-skills/excalidraw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc4dfb0b61e40e13520fb02fcddc74934ea9e8330fce464843fba953a9f6439d

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