Creating Excalidraw Diagrams

When creating Excalidraw diagrams, ensure you:

• Generate the layout with correct spacing
• Make consistent and logical use of colours, fonts, and shapes
• Text is correctly added within shapes, not as separate text elements (unless desired)
• Arrows and lines are correctly anchored / connected to shapes (not floating) so that when objects are moved any connections remain intact
• You save the Excalidraw diagram content to a file and link the file path
• Call read_me before your first create_view call each session - it provides the colour palette, camera sizes, layout rules, and element format reference.
• If the user has asked you to create Excalidraw diagrams but you do not have the Excalidraw MCP enabled, you should ask them to add it for you, they can configured it by using the HTTP MCP URL of: https://excalidraw-mcp-app.vercel.app/mcp and they can view the MCP documentation here: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp

Choose your workflow

Pick one based on what the user needs. Do not default to doing both.

Inline preview only (create_view)

Use when the diagram is for the conversation only - the user wants to see it in the chat and does not need a file.