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excalidraw

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Use when working with *.excalidraw or *.excalidraw.json files, user mentions diagrams/flowcharts, or requests architecture visualization - delegates all Excalidraw operations to subagents to prevent context exhaustion from verbose JSON (single files: 4k-22k tokens, can exceed read limits)

When to use

• File path contains `.excalidraw` or `.excalidraw.json`
• User requests: "explain/update/create diagram", "show architecture", "visualize flow"
• User mentions: "flowchart", "architecture diagram", "Excalidraw file"
• Architecture/design documentation tasks involving visual artifacts
• "Small" files (smallest is 4k tokens - still significant)
• "Quick checks" (checking component names still loads full JSON)
• Single file operations (isolation prevents context pollution)
• Modifications (don't need full format understanding in main context)

When not to use

• reading Excalidraw files directly in main context
• parsing Excalidraw JSON in main context
• loading multiple diagrams for comparison in main context
• inspecting file to understand the format in main context

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