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Diagram Design

by Cathryn LaverySkillMake visuals

Turns a plain request into a clean flowchart, timeline or chart as one HTML file

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About Diagram Design

A skill that has your AI agent draw diagrams in one clean editorial style: it picks from 45 diagram types and writes a single HTML file you open in your browser. It can match your brand and export PNG or SVG.

For Bloggers and writersFounders and product teamsAnyone making slides or docs

Made by Cathryn Lavery

Cathryn Lavery writes about AI, entrepreneurship and design at littlemight.com. This open-source skill is published from her GitHub repository, which she says is the only source of official builds.

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★ 63k
License
MIT
Cost
Free
Level
Beginner
Contents
Includes scripts

Examples

From the project's own repository · 4 images, swipe or use the arrows.

A quadrant chart placing projects by impact and effort, with one item highlighted to do first
A flowchart with two yes or no decisions that end in writing a skill
A timeline of design versions from 2025 to 2026 with two milestones marked in orange
An architecture diagram of a website from reader to cache, origin server and content store
Image: Cathryn Lavery (MIT). Original file

Overview

Diagram Design is a skill that teaches your AI agent to draw diagrams in one calm editorial style. You describe what you need in plain words, such as a quadrant of projects by impact and effort, and the agent picks one of 45 diagram types and writes a single HTML file you open by double-clicking. It can match your brand colours and fonts from your website, redraw Mermaid, draw.io or Excalidraw files, and export PNG or SVG. It suits writers, founders and teams who need a diagram for a post, a deck or a document.

It gives agent-made diagrams one consistent, restrained look instead of generic rounded boxes, and it can learn your brand from a single URL.

Try these first

Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.

  1. Make a quadrant of these four projects by impact and effort: [list projects]First try

  2. Draw a timeline of these milestones: [paste dates and events]

  3. Onboard diagram-design to [your website URL] so my diagrams use its colours and fonts.reads your website

  4. Redraw this Mermaid diagram in your style: [paste Mermaid text]

Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.

What you get

From the creator's documentation.

OutputWhat it isReads
45 diagram typesFlowcharts, timelines, quadrants, org charts, Gantt, funnels, Venn and moreWhat you describe
One HTML fileA single file with inline SVG that opens with a double-clickYour computer
Brand matchingPulls the palette and fonts from a website you name and saves them as a profileYour website
ImportRedraws Mermaid, draw.io and Excalidraw filesFiles you give it
ExportSaves a diagram as SVG, or as PNG with Python and Playwright installedYour computer
Web fontsDiagrams load fonts from Google Fonts unless you ask for system fontsGoogle Fonts

Good to know

You need one clear diagram for a blog post, a slide or a document. Describe it in plain words and the agent picks a diagram type, states its plan and writes a single HTML file with the drawing.

Limits

  • The author notes that output quality depends on the model, and the same prompt can lay out differently twice. The result is HTML and SVG, not an editable draw.io or Excalidraw canvas.
  • Diagrams load their fonts from Google Fonts unless you ask for system fonts. PNG export needs Python with Playwright and Chromium.

Notes by (original project name: diagram-design), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Diagram Design README: install, diagram types and export · Diagram Design skill file

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