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Best Claude skills for diagrams and knowledge graphs

Diagram skills turn ideas, plans and codebases into visuals you can actually read: editorial diagrams, interactive architecture maps and knowledge graphs of a whole repository. Archify, Diagram Design, Graphify and Understand Anything are all viral this year.

44 diagrams skills · ranked live · November 2026

The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.

  1. #1
    tt-a1i

    Archify

    Create validated architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, lifecycle/state, ERD, class, tree, timeline, and waterfall diagrams as explorable standalone HTML with dark/light themes…

    Pack95k216kScore 85
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  2. #2
    tt-a1i

    Archify Tuning

    Improve Archify diagram accuracy, visual quality and complete authoring speed with fewer repairs. Use for generation experiments or evaluating changes to layout, routing, diagnostics…

    Pack95k216kScore 85
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  3. #3
    tt-a1i

    Simplify Codebase

    Simplification audit or authorized codebase simplification whose stated objective is to remove accidental complexity. Use for evidence-backed deletion or consolidation of dead code…

    Pack95k216kScore 83
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  4. #4
    JimLiu

    Baoyu Diagram

    Create professional diagrams with configurable dark/light theme via CSS custom properties. Use this skill whenever the user asks for any kind of technical or conceptual diagram…

    Pack27k614kScore 82
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  5. #5
    OpenMontage

    Beautiful Mermaid

    Render Mermaid diagrams as SVG and PNG using the Beautiful Mermaid library. Use when the user asks to render a Mermaid diagram.

    Pack79k116kScore 82
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  6. #6
    Graphify

    Graphify

    Use for any question about a codebase, its architecture, file relationships, or project content — especially when graphify-out/ exists, where the question should be treated as a graphify…

    146k13kScore 82
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  7. Garry Tan

    Gstack

    #7
    Garry Tan

    Diagram

    Turn an English description (or mermaid source) into a diagram triplet: the source, an editable .excalidraw file you can open on excalidraw.com, and rendered SVG + PNG. (gstack)

    Pack141k47kScore 80
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  8. #8
    cathrynlavery

    Diagram Design

    Create branded architecture, architecture delta, IT current-state, flowchart, sequence, state machine, ER/data model, timeline, swimlane, quadrant, radar/spider, polar chart (polar/radial…

    66k27kScore 80
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  9. #9
    Egonex-AI

    Understand

    Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships

    Pack92k37kScore 80
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  10. #10
    Egonex-AI

    Understand Domain

    Extract business domain knowledge from a codebase and generate an interactive domain flow graph. Works standalone (lightweight scan) or derives from an existing /understand knowledge graph.

    Pack92k37kScore 80
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What makes a great diagrams skill.

  • Readable layouts with a clear reading order.

  • Output formats you can edit (SVG, HTML, Mermaid).

  • Accuracy checks against the real code.

Diagrams skills, explained.

Also searched as: diagram skill, architecture diagram skill, archify, knowledge graph skill.

What are the best Claude skills for diagrams and knowledge graphs?

Right now the top-ranked diagrams skills on Alyn are Archify (tt-a1i), Archify Tuning (tt-a1i), Simplify Codebase (tt-a1i). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.

What is Archify?

An agent skill that turns any idea, plan or codebase into an interactive diagram. It works in Claude Code, Codex and more.

Can a skill map my whole codebase?

Graphify and Understand Anything build queryable knowledge graphs from code, docs and schemas.

How do I install a diagrams skill?

Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.

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