home / skills / partme-ai / full-stack-skills / drawio-flowchart

drawio-flowchart skill

safe

This skill helps you create clear draw.io flowcharts and process diagrams by guiding shape usage, connectors, and layout for visual workflows.

npx playbooks add skill partme-ai/full-stack-skills --skill drawio-flowchart

Review the files below or copy the command above to add this skill to your agents.

Files (2)

SKILL.md

666 B

---
name: drawio-flowchart
description: Provides comprehensive guidance for draw.io flowcharts including flowchart creation, shapes, connectors, and diagramming. Use when the user asks about draw.io flowcharts, needs to create flowcharts, design process diagrams, or visualize workflows.
license: Complete terms in LICENSE.txt
---

## When to use this skill

Use this skill whenever the user wants to:
- [待完善：根据具体工具添加使用场景]

## How to use this skill

[待完善：根据具体工具添加使用指南]

## Best Practices

[待完善：根据具体工具添加最佳实践]

## Keywords

[待完善：根据具体工具添加关键词]

Overview

This skill provides focused, practical guidance for creating and refining flowcharts in draw.io (diagrams.net). It covers shape selection, connector strategies, layout techniques, and diagram semantics to help you build clear, maintainable process diagrams. Use it to speed up design, enforce consistency, and communicate workflows effectively.

How this skill works

The skill examines your flowchart goals and recommends shape types, connector styles, and layout patterns that suit the process being modeled. It suggests naming conventions, swimlane usage, and color/label rules to improve readability and reuse. It also offers step-by-step tips for building diagrams in draw.io, including alignment, grouping, and export options.

When to use it

Designing a process diagram, decision tree, or system workflow in draw.io
Standardizing shapes, labels, and connectors for team diagrams
Converting rough sketches or meeting notes into a clean flowchart
Optimizing large diagrams for readability and presentation
Preparing diagrams for documentation, handoff, or stakeholder review

Best practices

Choose a small, consistent set of shapes and document their meaning
Use directional connectors with arrows for process flow and label them briefly
Group related elements with containers or swimlanes to reflect ownership or phases
Keep text concise; prefer verbs for actions and nouns for artifacts or states
Align and distribute elements using draw.io alignment tools to improve scanning
Export in vector formats (SVG/PDF) for crisp prints and slide decks

Example use cases

Mapping an onboarding process with lanes for HR, IT, and Manager tasks
Documenting a software deployment pipeline with decision points and retries
Creating a customer support triage flow to route issues by priority
Visualizing an approval process with parallel review steps and escalation paths
Converting sticky-note choreography from a workshop into a shareable diagram

FAQ

What shapes should I use for decisions and processes?

Use diamonds for decisions, rectangles for actions or processes, ovals for start/end, and parallelograms for inputs/outputs. Keep meanings consistent across diagrams.

How do I keep large diagrams readable?

Break diagrams into sub-processes, use containers or separate pages, add clear entry/exit points, and use consistent spacing and font sizes.