One sentence in. A hand-drawn diagram out. Here's the real prompt-by-prompt story of how I taught Claude Code to sketch — and the screen-recording script that turns it into a short.
I found Nate Herk's Excalidraw skill and asked Claude Code to install it into my AIOS. Instead of blindly copying files, it read the package first — and told me it was actually two skills, not one.
I dropped my kie.ai key in and asked for slash commands. /diagram writes a free, editable file. /visual spends about five cents and renders a genuinely hand-sketched PNG — perfect for the channel.
"Make a visual of the entire AIOS project." The structure came out perfect: a central brain with six live connections. But the model leaked two raw colour codes into the labels. This is the part most demos hide.
The image model reads stray hex like #Ee03130 as text and writes it onto the label. The editable .excalidraw twin had clean labels, and a 5-cent re-run fixes the PNG. Showing the glitch is the lesson: you stay in the loop, the tool does the drawing.
Brand palettes, onboarding cards, voice setup — all the same one-line move. Every PNG ships with an editable twin.
The exact loop the episode teaches — typed once, rendered through kie.ai, saved as a PNG and an editable file.
The Channel A cut — the five-cent hand-drawn PNGs, start to finish.