v0.1.8

Draw on your sketches, export to Excalidraw.

What's new

• Drawing mode: click ✎ Draw on any sketch to mark it up with a red pen, a highlighter, notes and an eraser. Type a question and press Send to AI: the AI gets the marked-up drawing and the names of the parts you marked. Your marks are kept in every export.
• Excalidraw export: a new button saves the drawing as a .excalidraw file. Open it on excalidraw.com to keep editing: shapes, labels, groups and bound arrows stay editable; circuit parts, icons and photos come along as images, photo credits included.
• Watermark: a faint "sketchy" in the bottom-right corner of every drawing and export.
• Website, README and npm description now name Cursor and VS Code next to Claude.

Install

• Claude desktop app (Code tab): download the .mcpb for your platform below.
• Claude chat: upload sketchy-skill-0.1.8.zip (or the -pinned variant).
• Cursor / VS Code: one click on sketchy.davidkubus.dev, or add npx -y @ddkbs/sketchy as an MCP server.
• Claude Code in the terminal: claude mcp add sketchy --scope user -- npx -y @ddkbs/sketchy

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

v0.1.7

Sketchy is now on npm and works in Cursor and VS Code.

Install

• Claude desktop app (Code tab): download the .mcpb for your platform below.
• Claude chat: upload sketchy-skill-0.1.7.zip (or the -pinned variant).
• Cursor / VS Code: one click on sketchy.davidkubus.dev, or add npx -y @ddkbs/sketchy as an MCP server.
• Claude Code in the terminal: claude mcp add sketchy --scope user -- npx -y @ddkbs/sketchy

What's new

• Published to npm as @ddkbs/sketchy: runs on every platform Node.js runs on, no clone needed.
• One-click install links for Cursor and VS Code, plus a Cursor plugin manifest.
• The npm package installs the photo-labeling runtime (~470 MB) only the first time you pick a model. The desktop extension still ships it.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

v0.1.6

chore: release 0.1.6

v0.1.5

chore: release 0.1.5

v0.1.4

chore: release 0.1.4

Sketchy 0.1.1

Small update with a fix for exporting drawings and install steps for the terminal.

Install

1. Download the bundle for your platform below: darwin-arm64 (macOS on Apple Silicon), win32-x64 or linux-x64.
2. Double-click it or drag it into Settings → Extensions in the Claude desktop app.
3. Open the Code tab and ask, for example: "Explain the Arduino Uno with Sketchy."

Using Claude Code in the terminal? See Claude Code in the terminal.

Added

• Install steps for Claude Code in the terminal.

Fixed

• The SVG and PNG buttons now work in hosts without file downloads: the export opens as an image to save, drag out or copy.

Sketchy 0.1.0

First release of Sketchy: Claude draws while it explains, with clean, hand-drawn, interactive diagrams right next to the answer.

Note

Drawings currently appear in Claude Code sessions of the Claude desktop app. Support for the regular Claude chat is planned.

Install

1. Download the bundle for your platform below: darwin-arm64 (macOS on Apple Silicon), win32-x64 or linux-x64.
2. Double-click it or drag it into Settings → Extensions in the Claude desktop app.
3. Open the Code tab and ask, for example: "Explain the Arduino Uno with Sketchy."

Added

• Scene model with validated tools (sketch, add_box, add_node, add_group, add_edge, label, add_step, …); Claude describes structure, never coordinates.
• Automatic layout with elkjs: nested groups, orthogonal edge routing, edge labels and collision-free callout labels; picks the more readable flow direction.
• MCP App viewer with a consistent hand-drawn style (rough.js, Kalam handwriting font, fixed palette), hover details and click-to-open files in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf or Zed.
• Step-by-step walkthroughs that circle the relevant elements and fade the rest.
• SVG and PNG export with embedded fonts.
• Part library of 50 wokwi-elements parts in a SQLite index with pin aliases (D13, GND, anode), plus place_part, connect and routed wires.
• Photo labeling: licensed photo search (Wikimedia Commons, Openverse), local Florence-2 grounding with OCR, annotated previews for verification, and a model picker with download progress.
• Explanation patterns (structure, flow, comparison, metaphor, repository, circuit) as server instructions and prompts.
• Streamable HTTP mode for remote deployments.
• MCP Bundle packaging for Claude Desktop, robust against unset extension settings.
• Viewer fallback that fetches the drawing by view id when a host does not forward result metadata.

Known limitations

• Drawings appear in Claude Code sessions of the Claude desktop app. The regular Claude chat does not display views from local extensions yet; support is planned.
• Photo labeling is not available on Intel Macs (no ONNX Runtime build for macOS x64).