Resources
Guides, workflows, and comparisons
Each guide runs the same loop end to end on a real example: bounded source in, a first draft from an agent, a person reviewing and correcting the canvas, then a follow-up that updates that same diagram instead of replacing it. The comparisons are written to help you pick the right tool, including the cases where it isn’t this one.
Workflows
End-to-end walkthroughs: bounded source in, an editable canvas out, reviewed by a person and updated in place.
Diagram a repository with AI
Diagram an unfamiliar software repository with an AI coding agent using bounded source, a non-invention prompt, browser review, and same-canvas follow-up.
Editable AI architecture diagrams
Turn source files into editable AI architecture diagrams, review the canvas by hand, and ask an agent to update the same persistent Excalidraw diagram.
Kubernetes deployment diagram
Turn Kubernetes Deployment, Service, and Ingress YAML into an editable rollout review covering probes, ready endpoints, traffic, and rollback.
Editable OAuth sequence diagram
Build an editable OAuth authorization-code and PKCE sequence from bounded source, review the trust boundary, and update the same Excalidraw canvas.
AI diagram review workflow
Review AI-generated technical diagrams with a source boundary, critical-path check, meaningful human correction, preserved update, and accountable team handoff.
Persistent AI diagrams
Keep one AI-created Excalidraw diagram id and editor URL across agent creation, browser refinement, team review, same-canvas updates, and a later session.
Developer platform
Driving the same persistent diagrams from an agent, the terminal, or the REST API.
Excalidraw MCP workspace
Connect Claude, Codex, or another MCP client to persistent Excalidraw diagrams that people can refine in the browser and agents can update in place.
Excalidraw CLI workflow
Create, render, update, and hand off a persistent Excalidraw diagram from the terminal with @excaliwow/cli, JSON output, and explicit files.
Free Excalidraw API workflow
Evaluate a hosted Excalidraw REST API workflow that creates, renders, safely updates, and opens the same persistent diagram—with core access kept free for the first 10,000 verified accounts.
Update an Excalidraw diagram with an API
Choose additive edit, element patch, or regeneration for an existing Excaliwow diagram and demonstrate best-effort optimistic stale-read refusal.
Comparisons
Where Excaliwow fits against the tools you're probably already using, boundaries included.
Mermaid vs editable Excalidraw
Compare Mermaid’s text-source-of-truth workflow with a persistent freeform Excalidraw canvas using the same bounded architecture and an honest choose-either guide.
Miro alternative for developers
Compare Miro Free with Excaliwow for repository-to-diagram work, official MCP access, human review, sharing, and free-plan boundaries.
Eraser alternative for developers
Compare Eraser Free and Excaliwow for diagram-as-code, full MCP workflows, API access, freeform review, and persistent technical diagrams.
Excaliwow vs Excalidraw
How Excaliwow compares to Excalidraw: hosted accounts, persistent diagrams, live multiplayer, and a REST/CLI/MCP developer platform.
Looking for the product manual instead? The docs cover the REST API, CLI, MCP server, and the diagram DSL, plus product guides on real-time collaboration, sharing and public links, workspaces and members, and organizing your work.