Drawio Aws

Draw.io AWS

Produce correct AWS architecture diagrams in draw.io. This skill is a thin frontend; the deterministic engine, validator, and rules live in the drawio-ai-kit package, reached via the drawio-ai CLI.

0. Preflight — the CLI must be installed

command -v drawio-ai >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "Install the Kit first:  npm i -g github:sparklabx/drawio-ai-kit"

If drawio-ai is not on PATH, stop and tell the user to run npm i -g github:sparklabx/drawio-ai-kit. Never run npm i -g yourself — nothing mutates the user's global environment without their say-so.

1. Delegate the build (preferred when your harness supports it)

If your harness can spawn autonomous subagents that run shell commands AND read images (e.g. Claude Code's Task tool, a general-purpose agent), run the whole build loop in a subagent — the rules, icon searches, and every render/fix iteration then cost this conversation nothing. If it can't (or the subagent can't read images), skip to Inline path below — same loop, same rules.

Before spawning, resolve what the subagent cannot ask about: diagram scope, output directory (absolute path under the user's project), filename. Run the preflight above yourself. For a multi-diagram request, spawn one subagent per diagram in parallel with distinct filenames.

Model routing — if your harness lets you choose the subagent's model, route by task weight: a fast/cheap tier (Claude Haiku-class — must support vision) when the request matches a template from the rules' Templates table (reproduction is mechanical; the validator's advice strings teach every fix), your default strong model for free-hand or novel architectures. If a cheap subagent returns VALIDATE not ok or ITERATIONS > 3, respawn ONCE on the strong model before taking over inline. Multi-diagram requests: route each diagram independently.

Subagent prompt (fill every ``):

Build an AWS architecture .drawio diagram with the drawio-ai CLI.
Request: 
Output: /.drawio — never write inside the Kit, never into cwd.
Follow exactly:
1. Set ROOT="$(drawio-ai root)". Read $ROOT/docs/api-cheatsheet.md — the full layout-engine
   API in one file; never read library source.
2. Run `drawio-ai workflow` and `drawio-ai principles --mode aws` — the source of
   truth. (Fallback if a command is blocked: read $ROOT/rules/*.md directly.)
3. Look up every icon with ONE batched `drawio-ai search "a, b, c"`; never recolor icons.
4. Scaffold, don't write: `drawio-ai scaffold --list`, pick the closest template, then
   `drawio-ai scaffold .mjs -o /build.mjs` — the script arrives runnable
   (absolute imports, self-validating, self-rendering with an issues list). Edit only the
   deltas. If no template is close AND you'd change more than half of it, Write a new
   script instead (keep the scaffold's self-check tail). Layout engine only
   (group/frame/grid/icon/box + renderTree), NO hand-written coordinates.
5. Each `node build.mjs` run prints validate JSON AND the render's machine-readable
   `issues` list. Fix from THAT checklist — all issues in one Edit round — then re-run.
   Loop until issues is empty.
6. Only when issues is empty: Read the PNG once as final visual confirmation (list any
   remaining visual problems, fix ALL in one round). Target 
PNG: 
VALIDATE: 
ICONS: 
ITERATIONS: 
SUMMARY: 
ASSUMPTIONS: 

Relay DRAWIO, PNG and SUMMARY to the user verbatim; do NOT re-read the .drawio or PNG in this conversation — the subagent already ran the vision self-check. If VALIDATE is not ok, take over via the Inline path (the build .mjs and .drawio are on disk at the returned paths).

Inline path (no subagent support)

1. Shared Workflow

drawio-ai workflow

Prints the build → validate → render → write-to-project-path loop every diagram follows. Read it; it is the source of truth for the process.

2. Domain rules

drawio-ai principles --mode aws

Returns the AWS rules + shared principles + catalog categories.

3. Build with the engine, then validate + render

Resolve the Kit's install dir, then import the engine by absolute path (the Shared Workflow shows the exact pattern):

ROOT="$(drawio-ai root)"     # absolute path to the installed Kit

Build with the declarative layout engine (NO hand-written coordinates), then: drawio-ai validate → drawio-ai render -o .png (Read the PNG for the vision self-check) → write the .drawio to an absolute path under the user's project (never the Kit, never cwd).

Domain notes

Container nesting order: AWS Cloud → Region → VPC → AZ → Subnet → SG. Managed/global services (IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS) sit outside the VPC — they are not subnet-resident. Category colors from the catalog are authoritative; never recolor AWS icons.

Self-check (before delivering)

• [ ] Built with the layout engine — no hand-written coordinates.
• [ ] drawio-ai validate → ok, no warnings, no advice.
• [ ] Every icon came from drawio-ai search (category colors intact).
• [ ] drawio-ai render vision self-check passed.
• [ ] Output written under the user's project, not the Kit.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: sparklabx
• Source: sparklabx/drawio-ai-kit
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.