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draw.io MCP Server

Create diagrams in Claude and see them rendered instantly as live, interactive draw.io diagrams — zoom, pan, toggle layers, and go fullscreen right in the conversation, then open any diagram in the full draw.io editor with one click to keep editing. No account or sign-up required.

Handles flowcharts, cloud and software architecture, ER diagrams, network topologies, UML, BPMN, org charts, mockups, and more. Diagrams can be generated from Mermaid or native draw.io XML, with automatic graph layout and obstacle-avoiding connector routing for clean, professional results.

Built-in shape search covers more than 10,000 shapes from the full draw.io library — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Cisco, electrical, P&ID, and many more — plus brand logos and icons, so technical diagrams use real, recognizable symbols.

draw.io is one of the most widely used diagramming tools, trusted by millions of users.

Publisher claimed. 2 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under productivity, developer-tools, creative. Published by drawio.com.

Status

Pod has not dialled draw.io yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 2 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.draw.io/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "draw-io": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.draw.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

26 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Bug: MCP-App-Server - Wrapping in for metadata causes styles to not render

Bug Report

Description

When introducing metadata through attributes on tags, the MCP App Server fails to show the objects in the diagram, resulting in blank spaces. Exporting the XML / opening in the editor results in icons showing as normal, suggesting this is an issue unique to the embedded viewer.

Steps to reproduce

Enter the following prompt into Claude with the draw.io MCP instance installed.

Creating the following diagram using the draw.io MCP

<mxGraphModel dx="

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/46) · 2026-06-16 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### open_drawio_xml causes MCP transport to close on Windows/Codex, while Mermaid and CSV work

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/34) · 2026-05-10 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Feature: Resolve img/lib/ SVG references in create_diagram for inline rendering

## Summary

When using `create_diagram` via the MCP App Server (`mcp.draw.io/mcp`), shapes that reference SVGs from draw.io's asset library (`image=img/lib/azure2/...`, `img/lib/aws4/...`, etc.) render as broken image placeholders in the inline viewer. Only built-in vector stencils (`shape=mxgraph.*`) render correctly.

This affects **all** of draw.io's modern icon libraries — Azure, AWS, GCP, Cisco, Kubernetes, SAP, and more — since `search_shapes` returns `image=img/lib/...` relative paths for

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/25) · 2026-04-08 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Bug: `create_diagram` returns generic error with no diagnostic info (regression of #10)

## Description
The `create_diagram` tool consistently returns a generic error with no diagnostic information, making it impossible to understand the root cause of the failure.

This is a regression of #10, which was closed on 2026-03-03 with no confirmed fix — the only maintainer response was asking for the prompt, with no follow-up after the author replied.

## Steps to Reproduce
Attempted three calls with progressively simpler XML to isolate the issue:

**Attempt 1** – Full flowchart (~15 node

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/22) · 2026-04-01 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Feature suggestion: Auto-trigger, diagram type picker, and default output paths for the Claude Code skill

Hey! First off, thanks for building this skill — it's been super useful in my workflow with Claude Code.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  I've been using it daily and made a few small tweaks on my local copy that have improved t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/20) · 2026-03-20 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Error during previewing and exporting because the GPU initialization of draw.io failed

• Ran & 'C:\Program Files\draw.io\draw.io.exe' -x -f png -b 20 -o '.\something-original-preview.png' '.\something.drawio' └ [40660:0813/193406.410:ERROR:components\os_crypt\sync\os_crypt_win.cc:106] Failed to decrypt: Key not valid for use … +30 lines (ctrl + t to view transcript) [40660:0813/193406.578:FATAL:content\browser\gpu\gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc:418] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.


[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/66) · 2026-08-14 · open · external user · 0 comments

### postinstall.js crashes with libuv UV_HANDLE_CLOSING assertion on Windows (Node 22 and 24)

## Describe the bug

`npm install -g @drawio/mcp` fails on Windows every time. The install runs, then crashes during the postinstall step with a native libuv assertion failure, not a JavaScript error:

Assertion failed: !(handle->flags & UV_HANDLE_CLOSING), file src\win\async.c, line 76

This is a known category of Node/libuv bug on Windows (tracked upstream at nodejs/node#56645), where an async handle is closed while still marked as closing. It appears to trigger from something in postinstall.j

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-13 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Error when installing using `npx @drawio/mcp` command

I get the following output when trying to install the MCP server on Windows using the command `npx @drawio/mcp` on Powershell:

```powershell
npm warn cleanup Failed to remove some directories [
npm warn cleanup   [
npm warn cleanup     '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\npm-cache\\_npx\\56d755bf05e5ecee\\node_modules\\@modelcontextprotocol',
npm warn cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\56d755bf05e5ecee\node_modules\@modelco

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/59) · 2026-08-08 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Bug: windows mcp tool server error

<img width="1920" height="1440" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81974df0-e0c8-4f9f-9268-f55cd66c4983" />

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/54) · 2026-07-15 · open · external user · 1 comment

### vscode does not see drawio mcp server running even it is running

then i add the mcp server 
https://mcp.draw.io/mcp
to the vscode mcp.json file, even if i start it, i can't have github copilot use it.

Most likely cause: the tools' internal name (drawio-mcp-ap) and terse schemas rank poorly in the semantic tool-search, and/or VS Code hasn't fully handshaked/activated the drawio server for this agent session even though its manifest is cached in the deferred list.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/47) · 2026-06-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Question / Feature Request: Clear documentation for 100% offline/local usage

### Context
I am setting up this MCP server in an environment with strict data restrictions. I need to ensure that no diagram data (XML structures or layouts) leaves my local machine.

### Questions
1. **Is 100% local operation fully supported?** 
   When using tools to create or export diagrams to PNG/SVG for the LLM, does the server fallback to any cloud endpoints (like `convert.diagrams.net`) if local dependencies are missing?

2. **Can Draw.io Desktop be used as a local renderer?**
   If the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/41) · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature: Add browser URL output mode to skill-cli

## Summary

Add a `url` output mode to the Claude Code skill that generates a draw.io browser URL (same mechanism as the MCP Tool Server), so users can open diagrams in the browser without running a separate MCP server or installing draw.io Desktop.

## Motivation

Currently, the four integration approaches serve different needs:

| Approach | Output | Fixed context cost | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP App Server | Inline in chat | Low (remote) | MCP Apps host |
| MCP Tool Server | Brow

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-mcp/issues/40) · 2026-05-24 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for draw.io](/mcp/draw-io/issues) — of 26 qualified upstream.

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