Excalidraw Update — Development skill for Claude Code
Update an existing Excalidraw element (move, resize, restyle, relabel) and sync the change to the live canvas.
How to install Excalidraw Update
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/lesleslie-excalidraw-mcp-excalidraw-update/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lesleslie-excalidraw-mcp-excalidraw-update && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lesleslie/excalidraw-mcp/HEAD/commands/excalidraw-update.md -o ~/.claude/skills/lesleslie-excalidraw-mcp-excalidraw-update/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Excalidraw Update does
description: Update an existing Excalidraw element (move, resize, restyle, relabel) and sync the change to the live canvas. argument-hint: [--x N] [--y N] [--width N] [--height N] [--text "..."] [--stroke-color "#RRGGBB"] allowed-tools: mcp__excalidraw__update_element, mcp__excalidraw__query_elements, mcp__excalidraw__health_check
/excalidraw-update
Live-update an element that already exists on the Excalidraw canvas.
Usage
`/excalidraw-update [--x N] [-
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