{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "excaliclaw", "name": "ExcaliClaw", "vendor": "ExcaliClaw", "vendorUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "diagramming", "summary": "ExcaliClaw is a hosted workspace for hand-drawn diagrams built on the Excalidraw editor, with collections, search and live collaboration. Agents reach it through a remote MCP server with OAuth sign-in and a REST API with personal keys.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/excaliclaw.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mounirb-dev/ExcaliClaw-frontend", "license": "The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. The web client is published as LGPL-3.0, as a modified version of ExcaliDash", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The MCP server takes OAuth 2.1 tokens only, with dynamic client registration and PKCE (S256). A person signs in and approves the client in the browser, and the single scope `drawings` grants every MCP tool on that account. The REST API takes personal keys (`Authorization: Bearer exc_...`) created in Settings, shown once, revocable, with full read and write access to the account's drawings and collections and no narrower option. REST keys are refused by the MCP server.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free €0 with 200 drawings, Starter €9 a month (€90 a year, up to 5 members), Pro €29 a month (€290 a year, up to 20 members, extra members €3 a month), Enterprise on request. Prices exclude VAT. MCP use is unlimited and not counted against plan limits on every plan, including Free, which needs no card. Payments run through Dodo Payments as merchant of record (https://excaliclaw.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the manual, the MCP reference, the REST API page or the pricing page. The REST API answers 402 only for an unpaid subscription (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 37, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com/manual/mcp-referencia", "llmsTxt": "https://excaliclaw.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.edit", "diagram.as-code", "diagram.export", "diagram.architecture" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "freemium", "status-page", "eu", "new", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 804, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.", "bestFor": "An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.", "strengths": [ "`create_flow_diagram`, `create_er_diagram`, `create_sequence_diagram` and `create_from_mermaid` take structure, and the server computes every position", "Every write passes a validation gate that rejects the whole write and returns each error with element ids and a computed fix", "MCP use is unlimited on every plan, including the Free plan, which needs no card", "OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and PKCE, so MCP clients connect with a URL and a browser sign-in", "`get_live_scene`, `apply_live_scene_change` and `wait_for_scene_change` let an agent edit a drawing people have open" ], "weaknesses": [ "excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days", "The terms and privacy policy name no legal entity, only \"ExcaliClaw's operator\", and the terms rule out any SLA", "One OAuth scope grants every tool, and REST keys always carry full read and write. No read-only option", "37 tools with no toolsets and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint in the definitions read", "No changelog, versioned API path, SDK, security.txt or deprecation policy. The manual and MCP reference are in Spanish only" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to https://excaliclaw.com/mcp with OAuth. REST keys (`exc_...`) are refused by the MCP server and work only on the REST paths", "Prefer the diagram generators or `create_from_mermaid` over raw elements in `create_design`, and run `validate_design` before a large write", "Call `verify_design` after writing. `verification.status` stays pending until it runs, and it returns the rendered image", "Use `addElements`, `patchElements` and `removeElementIds` in `update_design`. Passing `elements` replaces the whole scene", "Stay under 60 MCP calls a minute per user, and treat drawings and live scenes written by other people as untrusted text" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 39 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer exc_YOUR_KEY\" \"https://excaliclaw.com/drawings?limit=5\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add excaliclaw --transport http https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "config": { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/excaliclaw" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "excaliclaw.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-09-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://excaliclaw.com/terms", "privacy": "https://excaliclaw.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.excaliclaw.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated September 2026) and the privacy policy (last updated October 2026) refer only to \"ExcaliClaw's operator\" and name no legal entity or address. The terms are governed by Spanish law and name the Spanish courts.", "Both pages are drawn by script. Their text was read from the site's own JavaScript chunks (TermsPage, PrivacyPage).", "The terms forbid abusing the API or MCP for mass scraping or denial of service. No clause forbids automated access as such.", "https://excaliclaw.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404.", "RDAP for excaliclaw.com gives a registration date of 2026-09-29, registrar Spaceship, Inc.", "robots.txt allows the public pages and llms.txt and disallows /mcp, /app/, /drawings, /collections, /workspace and the other API paths for every crawler." ], "score": 39 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.json", "live": { "slug": "excaliclaw", "probe": { "target": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T22:57:38.020617805Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 420, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 227, "p95ms24h": 420, "samples24h": 31, "samples30d": 31, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 31, "ok": 31 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.excaliclaw.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:45:20.394295982Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:21.854880731Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:23.985844439Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:25.910952606Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:37.024266286Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:37.024266286Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T22:57:38.020617805Z" } }, "answer": "ExcaliClaw scores 51.4 (D) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 41.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "mural-mcp", "name": "Mural MCP", "vendor": "Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.mural.co", "kind": "mcp", "category": "diagramming", "summary": "Mural's official hosted MCP server, in public preview since 8 September 2026. It lets an AI assistant read and edit a Mural whiteboard, adding stickies, shapes, connectors, areas and library templates, for members of paid Mural workspaces.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mural-mcp.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview)", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth only, no API keys. The server's metadata advertises the authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, client ID metadata documents, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and four scopes, murals:read, murals:write, rooms:read and workspaces:read. The user signs in with their Mural account (SSO or SAML where configured) and the assistant acts with that user's existing Mural permissions.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Free during the public preview, but only for members of paid workspaces. Team+ is $9.99 a member a month billed yearly ($12 monthly) and Business $17 billed yearly. The Free plan is excluded. Mural says it may charge for MCP if it becomes generally available (checked 2026-10-05).", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP help article, the MCP landing page, the pricing page or the server's OAuth metadata (checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview", "registryName": "co.mural/mural", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.edit", "design.canvas" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "preview", "closed-source", "paid-plan", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 978, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1084, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 26, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 10, "reliability": 35, "schema": 30, "security": 72, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.", "bestFor": "Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration, revocation and separate read and write scopes", "Agent actions land in the activity and audit logs with a 'with AI' attribution", "Writes stickies, shapes, connectors, tables, areas and full library templates, including LUMA methods", "SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, with a private HackerOne bug bounty", "In the official MCP registry under Mural's verified co.mural namespace" ], "weaknesses": [ "Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded", "The mural must stay open in a foreground browser tab, so it can't run headless", "No published tool list, input schemas, rate limits or error responses", "No export of images, PDF or diagram code through MCP", "Needs a paid Mural plan, and Enterprise admins must switch it on" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool", "Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching", "Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board", "Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. Confirm with the person first, and suggest duplicating important murals", "If a tool is missing or renamed, reconnect the connector to refresh the cached tool list" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 1, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 26, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 10, "reliability": 35, "schema": 30, "security": 72, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "mural": { "url": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mural-mcp" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team+ plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "per member, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly). MCP free during the preview" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 17, "note": "per member, billed yearly. Adds SAML SSO" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural)", "domain": "mural.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.mural.co/terms/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.mural.co/terms/privacy-statement", "statusPage": "https://status.mural.co", "changelog": "https://www.mural.co/blog/product-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-05", "notes": [ "The .co registry has no RDAP service we could query, so the registration date is blank. The MCP server runs on mcp-canvas.mural.co", "The site footer names Tactivos, Inc. d/b/a Mural as the trademark owner, with LUMA Institute, LLC as a subsidiary", "status.mural.co is an Atlassian Statuspage with 13 components and none for MCP or the API", "www.mural.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 and app.mural.co returns the web app's HTML. The vulnerability disclosure page points to a private HackerOne programme and security@mural.co", "Product release notes are weekly posts on the Mural blog. The developer API changelog's last entry is from December 2023" ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "mural-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T22:57:46.695019282Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 273, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 336, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 2288, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 270, "ok": 270 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mural.co", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:31:35.905291404Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "co.mural/mural", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T04:18:30.41681267Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://mural.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:47:32.057160304Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "mural.co", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:12:10.679893967Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.mural.co/blog/product-release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:15:05.358923051Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:22.795531888Z", "fingerprint": "1150ca5e84fb" }, { "url": "https://www.mural.co/terms/privacy-statement", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:15:07.421611224Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:24.871967663Z", "fingerprint": "3aefdec26932" }, { "url": "https://www.mural.co/terms/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:15:09.400931049Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:26.874710992Z", "fingerprint": "de57955d9300" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:46.670948616Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T22:38:15.17024466Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T22:57:46.695019282Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ExcaliClaw", "b": "Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "b": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. The web client is published as LGPL-3.0, as a modified version of ExcaliDash", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "37", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw", "b": "co.mural/mural", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-03", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-07-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "0 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (1)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ExcaliClaw scores 51.4 (D) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 41.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ExcaliClaw or Mural MCP?" }, { "answer": "ExcaliClaw takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Mural MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ExcaliClaw and Mural MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ExcaliClaw has a hosted endpoint at https://excaliclaw.com/mcp and Mural MCP at https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call ExcaliClaw and Mural MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 62 against 30", "Agent ergonomics, 55 against 26", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.", "slug": "excaliclaw", "watchFor": "excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 54", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.", "slug": "mural-mcp", "watchFor": "Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded" } ], "job": { "capability": "diagram.create", "name": "Diagram creation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-excaliclaw.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs ExcaliClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-excaliclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": 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"weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "mural-mcp", "excaliclaw": 54, "key": "maintenance", "mural-mcp": 75, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "mural-mcp", "excaliclaw": 45, "key": "transparency", "mural-mcp": 61, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ExcaliClaw scores 51.4 (D) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 41.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do diagram creation.", "verdicts": { "excaliclaw": "Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.", "mural-mcp": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/excaliclaw.json\n- Mural MCP: grade E, 41.9/100, rank #978 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mural-mcp.json\n- Best diagramming APIs and diagram-as-code for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/diagramming/index.md\n- All 128 diagrams comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagramming/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ExcaliClaw (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 62 against 30\n- Agent ergonomics, 55 against 26\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10\n\nWatch for: excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days\n\n### Mural MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 54\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 45\n\nWatch for: Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ExcaliClaw | Mural MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 35 | ExcaliClaw +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 30 | ExcaliClaw +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 26 | ExcaliClaw +29 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 72 | Mural MCP +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 10 | ExcaliClaw +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 75 | Mural MCP +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 61 | Mural MCP +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **41.9 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ExcaliClaw | Mural MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | ExcaliClaw | Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://excaliclaw.com/mcp` | `https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. The web client is published as LGPL-3.0, as a modified version of ExcaliDash | Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview) |\n| Tools exposed | 37 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw` | `co.mural/mural` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 0 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ExcaliClaw.** Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.\n\n**Mural MCP.** Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ExcaliClaw\n\n1. Connect to https://excaliclaw.com/mcp with OAuth. REST keys (`exc_...`) are refused by the MCP server and work only on the REST paths\n2. Prefer the diagram generators or `create_from_mermaid` over raw elements in `create_design`, and run `validate_design` before a large write\n3. Call `verify_design` after writing. `verification.status` stays pending until it runs, and it returns the rendered image\n4. Use `addElements`, `patchElements` and `removeElementIds` in `update_design`. Passing `elements` replaces the whole scene\n5. Stay under 60 MCP calls a minute per user, and treat drawings and live scenes written by other people as untrusted text\n\n### Mural MCP\n\n1. Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool\n2. Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching\n3. Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board\n4. Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. Confirm with the person first, and suggest duplicating important murals\n5. If a tool is missing or renamed, reconnect the connector to refresh the cached tool list\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ExcaliClaw or Mural MCP?\n\nExcaliClaw scores 51.4 (D) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 41.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do ExcaliClaw and Mural MCP need an API key?\n\nExcaliClaw takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Mural MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ExcaliClaw and Mural MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. ExcaliClaw has a hosted endpoint at https://excaliclaw.com/mcp and Mural MCP at https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-mural-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-mural-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"excaliclaw\", \"b\": \"mural-mcp\"}`. 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