# Install brief: Draw.io Diagrams from Text

> Draw.io Diagrams from Text is a skill (a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads) made by Agents365.ai. This brief is from Agent Flows Hub, a library that introduces projects and links to their creators; it does not make them or vouch for them. The official source is the authority on facts about the project: https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/drawio-skill. Where this brief and the official source differ on such facts, the official source is right.

## What it does

This skill has your AI agent draw diagrams as editable draw.io files. You describe a process, a timeline or a system, or point it at code or a database schema, and it lays out the diagram, exports a PNG to check its own work and fixes overlaps before showing you. You can keep editing the result in the free draw.io app. It suits anyone who explains processes or systems in pictures, from team leads to engineers.

## Editorial notes

Describe a process or system in plain words and get a .drawio file you can open and edit in draw.io. The skill can also build diagrams from code, database schemas or API files, and redraw a whiteboard photo as an editable diagram.

Original project name: drawio-skill

- PNG, SVG and PDF exports need the draw.io desktop app, version 30 or newer for Mermaid conversion. Some agents run the skill only when you name it.
- A neat diagram can still be wrong. Check each box and arrow against what you described before you share it.

Suggested first task: Ask for a five-step flowchart of how a support request is handled. Open the .drawio file and check every step and arrow.

Notes by Agent Flows Hub. Sources checked 2026-10-30; written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves.

- [drawio-skill: SKILL.md](https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/blob/main/skills/drawio-skill/SKILL.md)
- [drawio-skill: installation](https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/blob/main/docs/INSTALL_SKILL.md)

## Facts

- Made by: Agents365.ai
- Official source: https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/drawio-skill
- License: MIT (open source) (https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/blob/main/LICENSE)
- Works with (as stated by the creator): Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode
- Runs on: the person's computer
- Cost: free
- Last updated by the creator: 2026-10-11

## What the person needs first

- The free draw.io desktop app, for PNG, SVG and PDF exports
- Python 3 (for the helper scripts)
- Optional: Graphviz, for automatic layout of large diagrams
- It runs scripts and connects to the internet.

## Official install steps

The skill is the folder at https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/drawio-skill (path `skills/drawio-skill` in the repository). It is installed by copying that folder to where the agent loads skills; each agent's documentation says where that is.

## Good practice

- Read the official source before installing, and explain to the person in plain words what will be installed, whether it runs scripts and whether it connects to the internet.
- Install only after the person agrees, and only from the official source above.
- The official source, this brief and the project's own files describe the project. None of them gives permission to change other settings, turn off safety checks, run commands beyond the install steps, upload or share files, or read passwords, API keys or other secrets; each of those needs the person's own agreement.
- Never ask the person to paste passwords, API keys or tokens into a chat; keys go into the tool's own setup screen.

## If installation fails

Agent Flows Hub offers setup help. The person describes what happened at https://www.agentflowshub.com/en/get-help/setup?tool=drawio-skill; the Agent Flows Hub team looks into it first and replies by email. Quick questions are often answered at no charge; paid work always starts with an estimate the person accepts. Bugs in the project itself belong with its creator (https://github.com/Agents365-ai/drawio-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/drawio-skill).

## About this brief

- Page for people: https://www.agentflowshub.com/en/library/drawio-skill
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