designIllustrationInWhiteboard
Create or refine a standalone ILLUSTRATION INSIDE an existing whiteboard by conversing with the AI design agent. This is the illustration sibling of designDeckInWhiteboard: same conversation, same follow-up flow, but it makes ONE on-brand illustration placed on the board (not a slide deck). Send ...
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What designIllustrationInWhiteboard does on Stable Baseline
AI agents invoke designIllustrationInWhiteboard to trigger actions in Stable Baseline. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
title | string | — | Optional title. If omitted, a clear one is derived from the brief. |
deckId | string | — | Optional. An existing illustration to continue refining (usually you pass sessionId instead; when both are given the session's illustration wins). The id is cal |
confirm | boolean | — | Set true ONLY after the user has approved the quoted cost, and send quoteToken with it. Leave unset/false on the first call of a turn to receive the quote: the |
message | string | Yes | This turn's message in plain language: the illustration brief on the first turn, a change instruction later, or the user's ANSWER to a clarifying question the a |
sessionId | string | — | The design conversation to continue, as returned by an earlier designIllustrationInWhiteboard call. Pass it together with message to answer a question, make a c |
brandKitId | string | — | Optional brand kit id (from listBrandKits) to colour-condition the illustration. If omitted, the organisation's effective brand is used. |
documentId | string | Yes | The whiteboard the illustration lives in. REQUIRED: an illustration cannot exist without a whiteboard, and this is that whiteboard's id. If you do not already h |
quoteToken | string | — | The quoteToken returned by this turn's call without confirm. Required with confirm: true. It works once, within 10 minutes, and only for the exact turn it quote |
attachments | array | — | Optional reference images for THIS turn (up to 8; images only). The agent lifts palette, layout, and tone from them (it does not pixel-copy). Non-image attachme |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why designIllustrationInWhiteboard is rated High
designIllustrationInWhiteboard triggers real processes with real consequences. An agent gone sideways doesn't fire it once. It starts dozens of builds, sends mass notifications, or burns through compute before anyone looks up.
Risk signalsAccepts URL/endpoint input (attachments[].url) · High parameter count (14 properties)
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The rule that runs designIllustrationInWhiteboard safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Stable Baseline, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For designIllustrationInWhiteboard, this is the rule to start with:
designIllustrationInWhiteboard stays usable, but rate-capped: a runaway agent can't fire it dozens of times a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Stable Baseline, apply this rule, and every designIllustrationInWhiteboard call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about designIllustrationInWhiteboard
Create or refine a standalone ILLUSTRATION INSIDE an existing whiteboard by conversing with the AI design agent. This is the illustration sibling of designDeckInWhiteboard: same conversation, same follow-up flow, but it makes ONE on-brand illustration placed on the board (not a slide deck). Send a brief for a NEW illustration, a change to an existing one, or an answer to the agent's question. The agent generates the illustration, places it on the board, and if the brief is ambiguous it asks ONE clarifying question (answer with the same sessionId). Returns immediately; poll getDeckReplyInWhiteboard for the result. Use it when the user wants a picture they can talk about and refine turn by turn (e.g. 'draw a friendly robot onboarding a new team', then 'make it warmer', 'add a second robot'). For a quick one-shot illustration with no follow-up, use generateIllustrationInWhiteboard instead. WHITEBOARD IS REQUIRED: an illustration always lives inside a whiteboard, so documentId (the whiteboard's id) is required. If you do NOT already have a whiteboard id, ASK THE USER which whiteboard they want the illustration designed in — do NOT create a whiteboard automatically. Only call createWhiteboard first if the user explicitly asks for a brand-new board; otherwise use the id of the whiteboard they name. FIRST vs FOLLOW-UP: the first call (from nothing) builds; a follow-up call (an answer, a change, or a new instruction) passes the sessionId (or the deckId) plus the new message. COST + APPROVAL: a build costs 52 credits per 30 slides (1 to 30 slides is 52, 31 to 60 is 104, and so on, with the second and later blocks charged once the deck is built and never charged twice for the same block), an edit costs a flat 36, and a clarifying question is FREE. Call FIRST without confirm: it returns the exact cost, the workspace balance and a single-use quoteToken, and charges nothing. Show the cost to the user, and only if they agree call again with the same arguments plus confirm:true and that quoteToken (it works once, for 10 minutes; a changed request gets a fresh quote and nothing is charged). The fee is auto-refunded if a turn produces no change or fails. Returns sessionId (the conversation), deckId (the illustration's id), status, turnType, started, awaitingUser, needsConfirmation, insufficientCredits, on a quote also quote (cost and balance), quoteToken and howToConfirm, and assistantMessage. It is categorised as a Execute tool in the Stable Baseline MCP Server, which means it can trigger actions or run processes. Use rate limits and argument validation.
designIllustrationInWhiteboard accepts 9 parameters: title, deckId, confirm, message, sessionId, brandKitId, documentId, quoteToken, attachments. Required: message, documentId. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Stable Baseline MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for designIllustrationInWhiteboard: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Stable Baseline. Nothing to install.
designIllustrationInWhiteboard is a Execute tool with high risk. Execute tools should be rate-limited and have argument validation enabled.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the designIllustrationInWhiteboard rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for designIllustrationInWhiteboard. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
designIllustrationInWhiteboard is provided by the Stable Baseline MCP server (https://api.stablebaseline.io/functions/v1/cloud-serve/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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