Lab 1.4

Let the chef into your kitchen.

30 min · solo · MCP & connectors

Connect Excalidraw to Claude and have it diagram a process you know cold — then validate it like this morning. A clean-looking box can still be invented. You can only catch the mistake in a process you actually understand.

The move: let the chef into your kitchen. Have Claude draw a process you know cold through the Excalidraw connector — then validate it like this morning. You can only catch an invented step in a process you actually understand.

How are you working?

1 Pick a process you know cold

2 Hand the chef the request

Turn on the Excalidraw connector in Claude (Settings → Connectors), then paste this:

Using the Excalidraw connector, draw a clear flowchart of this process: [the process you picked]. Show each step as a box, in order, with arrows. Keep it to the real steps — do not add steps you are unsure about.

3 Validate it — did the chef get YOUR kitchen right?

List the steps Claude drew. For each, mark it. A clean-looking box can still be invented — fluency is not accuracy.

✅ 0

Correct

⚠️ 0

Wrong

🛑 0

Invented

🕳️ 0

Missing

Step the chef drew	Verdict	Note

4 Ground it & redraw stretch

Found wrong or invented steps? Paste the real steps back to Claude and ask it to redraw (this is grounding, from this morning). What changed?

The real steps I gave it Did the redraw improve? What did grounding fix?

5 Think like a champion Would you trust this diagram enough to hand to a new joiner? What would you fix first?  Excalidraw is a safe kitchen — it only draws. Name one connector you'd be
      nervous to give the chef, and one rule you'd set before switching it on. 

The doorway rule: never point a live connector at real customer or production data in training. Dummy data and demo accounts only — give the chef the smallest kitchen that does the job.