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hand-drawn-diagrams — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install

Generates hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams from plain text prompts. It outputs animated SVGs, PNG exports, and hosted links for editing.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill hand-drawn-diagrams -a claude-code
Open on GitHub

What hand-drawn-diagrams does

This skill instructs the agent to convert text prompts into Excalidraw diagrams. It produces animated SVG files and shareable links for online editing. A PNG export is also supported. The agent triggers the workflow when it detects phrases like sketch diagram or whiteboard diagram.

In the open-design catalog, this entry runs in prototype mode. It advertises the capability during task planning. However, running the full pipeline requires the upstream bundle from muthuishere/hand-drawn-diagrams. Without those upstream files, the toolchain is incomplete.

The skill uses standard agent directories. You can install it into Claude Code or Codex using the skills CLI.

What it helps with

  • create Excalidraw sketches from text prompts
  • export diagrams to animated SVG format
  • generate hosted links for Excalidraw editing
  • render architecture mockups as PNG files

Example prompts for the agent

  • Create a sketch diagram of our microservice architecture
  • Draw a whiteboard diagram for the user registration flow
  • Use hand-drawn-diagrams to build an Excalidraw chart

How to install hand-drawn-diagrams

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill hand-drawn-diagrams -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/hand-drawn-diagrams/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/hand-drawn-diagrams/

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Questions about hand-drawn-diagrams

How to install hand-drawn-diagrams in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill hand-drawn-diagrams -a claude-code in your terminal. This copies the skill file to ~/.claude/skills/hand-drawn-diagrams/SKILL.md.

What does hand-drawn-diagrams do?

It turns text prompts into hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams. The output includes an animated SVG, a PNG export, and a hosted link for browser editing.

Why does this skill reference an upstream repository?

The open-design catalog entry is a prototype entry used for skill discovery. To execute the complete workflow with original scripts and assets, you need to pull files from muthuishere/hand-drawn-diagrams.

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0 
---
name: hand-drawn-diagrams
description: |
  Generate hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams from a prompt — animated SVG, hosted edit link, and PNG export. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and any agent supporting standard skill paths.
triggers:
  - "excalidraw"
  - "hand drawn diagram"
  - "sketch diagram"
  - "whiteboard diagram"
od:
  mode: prototype
  category: diagrams
  upstream: "https://github.com/muthuishere/hand-drawn-diagrams"
---

# hand-drawn-diagrams

> Curated from @muthuishere.

## What it does

Generate hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams from a prompt — animated SVG, hosted edit link, and PNG export. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and any agent supporting standard skill paths.

## Source

- Upstream: https://github.com/muthuishere/hand-drawn-diagrams
- Category: `diagrams`

## How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent
discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with
its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream
bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

```bash
# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/muthuishere/hand-drawn-diagrams
```

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (`hand-drawn-diagrams`) or with
one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

© nexu-io · Apache-2.0 · nexu-io/open-design

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