yctimlin/mcp_excalidraw
MCP server and Claude Code skill for Excalidraw — programmatic canvas toolkit to create, edit, and export diagrams via AI agents with real-time canvas sync.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 27 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #12 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 8, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a server and AI agent skill to programmatically create, edit, and export Excalidraw diagrams with real-time canvas synchronization.
- Enables seamless integration of AI agents with a live Excalidraw canvas via the Model Context Protocol for automated diagram manipulation.
- Use for automating diagram creation and updates in collaborative design workflows using AI agents like Claude or Codex CLI.
- Use for exporting and importing diagram elements as JSON to maintain version-controlled visual assets in development projects.
- Use for running automated smoke tests on diagram elements to validate canvas server deployments and ensure consistent rendering.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Run a live Excalidraw canvas and control it from AI agents. This repo provides:
Keywords: Excalidraw agent skill, Excalidraw MCP server, AI diagramming, Claude Code skill, Codex CLI skill, Claude Desktop MCP, Cursor MCP, Mermaid to Excalidraw.
Watch AI agents create and manipulate diagrams in real-time on the live canvas
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
295+54
Open issues
45+12
Compared with peers in Web
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| pingdotgg/t3code | 48.4K | +16.6K | 40 | today |
| pbakaus/impeccable | 104.0K | +8.7K | 54 | 10 days ago |
| HunYiSage/dsh-purge | 19.2K | +6.2K | 13 | today |
| Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu | 16.2K | +6.1K | 44 | 21 days ago |
| paperclipai/paperclip | 111.5K | +2.8K | 59 | 13 days ago |
| yctimlin/mcp_excalidraw | 2.6K | — | 43 | 23 days ago |
| Category median | 48.4K | +6.2K | 44 | — |
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