Designing architecture diagrams for your project? Skip the drag-and-drop hassle. Use Claude AI to generate draw.io diagrams instantly with just a prompt.

💡 Why Use This?

  • 🧠 Claude AI generates draw.io-compatible XML
  • ⚡ Instantly visualize system architectures
  • 💻 No design skills required – just describe your system

🛠 How It Works (3 Simple Steps)

  1. Prompt Claude AI with something like: 
Generate a draw.io-compatible XML diagram for this project/code/pseudocode etc.

[And provide it the base content]

  1. Copy Claude's Output into a 'test.drawio' file (XML code)

  2. Import into draw.io

    • Open draw.io
    • Click File → Import from → Device
    • Select the test.drawio file

🧩 Sample Prompt 

Generate an architecture diagram for a full-stack MERN app with auth, database, backend, and frontend layers. Output XML for draw.io.

Claude will reply with XML like this (trimmed for preview):

name="MERN App Architecture">

🔥 Why It's Useful

  • Saves 30+ minutes of manual diagramming
  • Great for docs, pitches, and planning
  • Works with any app idea you describe

Originally inspired by my full blog: How to Use Claude AI + draw.io