# Excalidraw — AI Connector Excalidraw publishes 5 MCP tools to Claude. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint. Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/excalidraw/ --- [AI Connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/) · [Productivity](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/) # Excalidraw Hand-drawn style diagrams rendered and exported to Excalidraw Listed in Claude · 5 published tools · Verified partner [Claude connector docs](https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp) [github.com](https://github.com/excalidraw) Overview ## What Excalidraw does Excalidraw draws diagrams in a deliberately sketchy style, and this is the official connector for it. Diagrams render inside the conversation with viewport control and fullscreen editing, and a finished one can be pushed to excalidraw.com for a shareable URL. Checkpoint handling carries hand edits back and forth, so a diagram someone adjusted manually can be restored and continued rather than regenerated from scratch. Five tools are claimed and five were observed at the endpoint, which answered without credentials. The connector carries partner tier. ### Who it is for Anyone sketching architecture or flow diagrams who prefers the informal look. ### Tool surface Five observed tools, and one of them is documentation: read\_me returns the element format reference and is meant to be called before create\_view. The rest are export\_to\_excalidraw plus save\_checkpoint and read\_checkpoint, which carry user edits across turns. Availability ## Where Excalidraw is listed Excalidraw is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Excalidraw has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them. The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one. Claude listing ## In the Claude connectors directory Excalidraw publishes 5 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 22.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer. The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 7 tools below its bucket's median, 336th of 462. It falls in the 4-6 tools band, which holds 16.2% of the Claude directory. ### Measured against the live endpoint A direct call to the endpoint returned 5 tools, matching the 5 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07. #### Tools the server actually returns - `read_me` - `create_view` - `export_to_excalidraw` - `save_checkpoint` - `read_checkpoint` Excalidraw publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally. Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there. Publisher Excalidraw Verification Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory) Filed under Productivity Endpoint `https://mcp.excalidraw.com/mcp` Documentation [Publisher setup docs](https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp) Published tools 5 · 4-6 tools band Depth rank in Productivity 336 of 462 Snapshot August 2026 Excalidraw carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server. In the publisher's words ## How Excalidraw describes it > The official Excalidraw MCP app allowing you to build interactive visual applications right in Claude. Ask Claude to create hand-drawn style diagrams using Excalidraw with smooth viewport camera control and interactive fullscreen editing. Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it. Same company ## More from Excalidraw ### [Academic Writing Toolkit](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/education/academic-writing-toolkit/) Checks on citations, spelling, logic and BibTeX records ChatGPT ### [estonian](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/other/estonian/) Estonian morphology, spell-check and lexical data from EstNLTK Claude ### [GitHub](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/github/) Repository triage across pull requests, issues, and CI ChatGPT ### [Ladder Pick](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/ladder-pick/) Random one-to-one matching with a ladder game ChatGPT Nearby ## Other Productivity connectors ### [B&A: Diagrams](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/b-a-diagrams/) Diagrams, charts and infographics from a prompt ChatGPT ### [Canvs.io whiteboard](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/canvs-io-whiteboard/) Collaborative whiteboards created and edited from chat ChatGPT ### [draw.io](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/draw-io/) Rendered draw.io diagrams from Mermaid or native XML Claude ### [Flourish](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/flourish/) Create interactive Flourish charts from data in chat Claude · ChatGPT ### [MindMap](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/mindmap/) Render outlines as collapsible mind maps in chat Claude · ChatGPT ### [Ofia](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/ofia/) Turn notes and files into compiled LaTeX documents and PDFs Claude [All 760 Productivity connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/) This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Excalidraw's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Excalidraw, and inclusion here is not an endorsement. ## Want your company reachable inside ChatGPT and Claude? Node8 builds MCP servers end to end: deciding which tools are worth exposing, the authentication and permission model, the review submissions, and the onboarding that gets them used. One server serves ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. [See how it works](https://node8.ai/mcp) Book a strategy session