excalidraw-diagram

Generate Excalidraw diagrams from text content. Supports three output modes - Obsidian (.md), Standard (.excalidraw), and Animated (.excalidraw with animation order). Triggers on "Excalidraw", "diagram", "standard excalidraw", "animate".

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is well-structured and actionable with concrete templates and a clear generation workflow, supported by a genuine one-level reference file. Its main weakness is verbosity from duplicated blocks and inlined reference material that overlaps the bundled schema.

Suggestions

Remove the duplicated Obsidian markdown-structure block and the second "Required Fields for All Elements" JSON template; keep a single canonical copy and cross-reference it.

Move the full color-palette and element-type tables into references/excalidraw-schema.md and leave only the essential palette plus a pointer in SKILL.md to eliminate overlap.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint (e.g., a JSON syntax check command with a fix-and-retry note) to the generation workflow so the verify step is a real feedback loop rather than a reminder.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is ~460 lines with material duplicated verbatim (the Obsidian markdown block appears twice and the element-template JSON is repeated in "Required Fields"), plus a redundant restatement of the description; tightening and de-duplication would reclaim meaningful tokens.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete executable JSON element templates, color/filename tables, and explicit Write-tool save steps, but placeholders like "{complete JSON data}" and "[...]" keep it from being fully copy-paste ready.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear numbered workflow and a 6-step auto-save generation sequence are present; validation is only a syntax-check reminder rather than an explicit validate→fix→retry checkpoint, leaving a minor gap.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Uses clear section headers and a real one-level-deep reference (references/excalidraw-schema.md, which exists and is linked twice), but large reference material is inlined and duplicated between SKILL.md and the schema file rather than cleanly split out.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description is specific, well-triggered, and complete, clearly distinguishing the skill and naming three concrete output modes with their formats. Its only gap is omitting a couple of natural synonyms (flowchart, mind map) that the body already uses.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	States the core action ("Generate Excalidraw diagrams from text content") and enumerates three concrete output modes with file formats, giving comprehensive coverage of specific actions rather than only minor gaps.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both "what" (generate diagrams in three modes) and "when" (named trigger phrases), matching the anchor requiring concrete trigger phrases for both.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Provides an explicit trigger list ("Excalidraw", "diagram", "standard excalidraw", "animate") with good natural-term coverage, but omits common synonyms like "flowchart"/"mind map" that appear in the body and a file-extension trigger.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Excalidraw-specific framing and dedicated trigger list carve a clear niche with minimal overlap risk against generic diagram or document skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: breferrari/obsidian-mind
Path: .claude/skills/excalidraw-diagram/SKILL.md
Commit: b84464b

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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