Excalidraw Figures turns a small Python spec into hand-drawn-style figures for articles, READMEs, and talks — and keeps the English and Traditional Chinese versions in sync because they come from the same source.
How it works
- One spec, N languages — every label is a dictionary of translations; add a language by adding a key
- Editable output — real .excalidraw JSON you can open on excalidraw.com or in Obsidian and keep drawing
- What the reader sees — a PNG rendered by headless Chrome from the preview SVG, so you check actual pixels
- A check that fails — text outside the canvas, wider than its box, over other text, or straddling an edge exits with code 1
- Small budget on purpose — three fills plus white, at most ten boxes, labels never on lines
Python 3.9+ with no packages; PNG export needs Chrome. Packaged as a Claude Code skill and plugin, so "draw the three-gate flow for this section, EN and ZH" produces checked figures.