Excalidraw MCP Server (community)
A live Excalidraw canvas that agents can draw on, see, refine and export as .excalidraw files.
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About Excalidraw MCP Server (community)
mcp-excalidraw-server gives agents a live Excalidraw canvas: they create architecture diagrams and flowcharts programmatically, check their own work through screenshots, fix layout problems and export .excalidraw files to commit with your code. The canvas can be driven from an agent skill and CLI, an MCP stdio server with 26 tools, or a REST API. It is a community project, separate from Excalidraw's own MCP app.
Excalidraw MCP Server (community) is listed in this index written primarily in TypeScript, with 2.6k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in October 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
Before connecting: access and data
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- List the accounts, files and services the enabled tools can read, change or execute. Check your actual credentials and discovered tools.
- Use narrowly scoped credentials and read-only mode where supported. Review proposed writes before approving them; a generated configuration does not apply these limits for you.
- Local launch is not local-only data processing. External services receive requests, and your client may pass tool results to its model provider. Check both destinations before sharing private data.
- Keep keys and browser session files out of shared config, repositories and screenshots. Know how to disconnect the server and separately revoke its credentials or account sessions.
Add Excalidraw MCP Server (community) to your MCP client
Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand.
Claude Code
claude mcp add mcp-excalidraw-server -- npx -y mcp-excalidraw-serverCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-excalidraw-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-excalidraw-server"]
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"mcp-excalidraw-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-excalidraw-server"]
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-excalidraw-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-excalidraw-server"]
}
}
}Codex
[mcp_servers.mcp-excalidraw-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-excalidraw-server"]