Editorial Diagrams Agent Skill

Editorial house style for draw.io diagrams — white-smoke paper, one tangerine accent, eyebrow-chip nodes, mono sublabels, bottom legend.

Context cost
2k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 of 2 fileshanded out here; the rest is at its source
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Editorial house style for draw.io diagrams — white-smoke paper, one tangerine accent, eyebrow-chip nodes, mono sublabels, bottom legend. Load alongside drawio-skill for any architecture, data-flow, sequence, or system diagram; when the user asks for the editorial / house / reference diagram style; or when restyling an existing .drawio into it.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

design
Filed under

Design & Media

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md8.0 kB · preview
--- name: editorial-diagram license: MIT compatibility: Requires drawio-skill (draw.io desktop CLI). Fonts Geist / Geist Mono / Instrument Serif are optional — style strings carry fallbacks. ---
8# Editorial Diagrams
9
10A style contract layered on drawio-skill. That skill owns the mechanics (XML skeleton, shape search, autolayout, export, self-check); this one owns how the result **looks**: cool editorial — white-smoke paper, jet-black ink, exactly one tangerine accent, technical detail in mono, everything on a 4px grid.
11
12Adapted from [cathrynlavery/diagram-design](https://github.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design) — its references/style-guide.md is the upstream source of these tokens.
13
14## Workflow
15
161. **Read drawio-skill** for the file skeleton, shape vocabulary, and export commands. Everything below overrides its default color/shape/font tables.
172. **Plan before drawing.** Name the diagram type, the **one** focal node, and what you are cutting. Complexity budget: ≤9 nodes flat, ≤24 when zoned into containers. Above 24, split into pages.
183. **Author the XML** using the tokens, node anatomy, and edge grammar below. [assets/example.drawio](assets/example.drawio) is a rendered-and-verified diagram in this style — copy its cells rather than retyping style strings.
194. **Export and look at it**: drawio -x -f png -e -s 2 -b 24 -o out.drawio.png in.drawio, then drawio-skill's scripts/repair_png.py out.drawio.png, then read the PNG back with vision and run the taste gate. Keep -b 24 (breathing room) and drop -t (the paper background must be painted).
20
21## Tokens
22
23Set background="#F5F5F5" on <mxGraphModel> and export **without** -t.
24
25| Role | Hex | Use |
26|---|---|---|
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,036 words
Files1
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈140
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
1,860
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
1.0%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 10% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

The download carries 1 of the 2 files in its source folder; the list here names 1 file, 8.0 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in. The other one is not in the download, nor is 1 file of a type a skill download does not carry — listed after these, with why.

  • SKILL.md8.0 kB

Not in the download

Not carried is a type a skill download does not hold. Marked read: its SKILL.md or scripts name the file, so without it the skill works only in part. Take them from its source.

  • assets/example.drawioread · not carried
  • assets/example.pngnot carried
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the download is 1 file — not the whole of its source: 2 files are left out, and the skill reads one of them. They are listed under the files, with why. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Editorial Diagrams · 2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/editorial-diagrams/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/editorial-diagrams" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/editorial-diagrams ] || { mv .claude/skills/editorial-diagrams "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/editorial-diagrams" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/editorial-diagrams"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add romainbellande/editorial-diagrams

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/editorial-diagrams/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/editorial-diagrams/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/editorial-diagrams" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/editorial-diagrams ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/editorial-diagrams "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/editorial-diagrams" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/editorial-diagrams" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/editorial-diagrams/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as editorial-diagram in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, editorial-diagrams. Not in this download: 2 files of its source, 1 of them read by its SKILL.md or scripts (the full list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceromainbellande/editorial-diagrams

Versions

Its author publishes no version number, so there is nothing here to pin to: what you install is the folder as it stands today. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

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