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Pretty Mermaid

Beautiful Mermaid diagrams for AI agents

Turn Mermaid source into polished SVGs, shareable PNGs, and terminal-ready ASCII—locally, without a browser.

Pretty Mermaid converts Mermaid source into themed SVG, PNG, and terminal ASCII diagrams

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🚀 Install

npx skills add imxv/pretty-mermaid-skills@pretty-mermaid -g -y

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Why Pretty Mermaid?

  • Made for AI agents: works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more
  • One source, three outputs: polished SVG for docs, PNG for sharing, and ASCII/Unicode for terminals
  • No browser required: renders locally without Chromium, Puppeteer, or a DOM
  • Flexible by default: 15 themes, custom colors, six diagram types, and batch rendering

✨ Features

  • 📊 Multi-format Support: SVG, PNG, and ASCII rendering export
  • 🎨 Rich Themes: 15 built-in themes for different scenarios
  • 📈 Six Diagram Types: Flowchart, Sequence, State, Class, ER, and XY charts
  • High Performance: Batch parallel rendering
  • 📚 Ready to Use: Complete templates and detailed documentation

Supported Themes

Light Themes Dark Themes Other
zinc-light zinc-dark nord
tokyo-night-light tokyo-night nord-light
catppuccin-latte tokyo-night-storm dracula
github-light catppuccin-mocha one-dark
solarized-light github-dark
solarized-dark

🎨 Theme Gallery

Compare the same flowchart across every built-in theme in the complete 15-theme gallery.

Tokyo Night theme preview GitHub Light theme preview

🤖 AI Assistant Integration

Seamlessly integrates with the following AI coding environments:

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
  • Antigravity
  • OpenCode
  • Codex
  • qoder

Installation details

Install from GitHub

npx skills add imxv/pretty-mermaid-skills@pretty-mermaid -g -y

Verify Installation

npx skills list -g

Confirm that pretty-mermaid appears in the global skill list. Node.js 16 or newer is required.

📖 Quick Start

List Available Themes

node scripts/themes.mjs

Render Single Diagram

node scripts/render.mjs \
  --input diagram.mmd \
  --output output.svg \
  --theme tokyo-night

Render PNG

node scripts/render.mjs \
  --input diagram.mmd \
  --output output.png \
  --format png \
  --width 1200 \
  --theme tokyo-night

Batch Render

node scripts/batch.mjs \
  --input-dir ./diagrams \
  --output-dir ./output \
  --theme dracula

📂 Examples

Check the 6 template files in assets/example_diagrams/:

  • flowchart.mmd - Flowchart
  • sequence.mmd - Sequence Diagram
  • state.mmd - State Diagram
  • class.mmd - Class Diagram
  • er.mmd - ER Diagram
  • xychart.mmd - XY Chart (bar and line)

PNG output is rendered directly in Node.js with no external converter required. The renderer also supports CJK state names, multiline labels, linkStyle, configurable ELK layout spacing, interactive XY chart tooltips, and ANSI-colored terminal output.

📚 Documentation

🤝 Community

Read the contribution guide, report problems with the issue templates, and review the security policy before sharing sensitive findings. Release history is tracked in the changelog.

⚙️ Requirements

  • Node.js 16+

📄 License

MIT License

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🙏 Acknowledgments

Based on beautiful-mermaid

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AI Agent Skill to generate and render beautiful Mermaid diagrams as SVG or terminal ASCII — 15 themes, 6 diagram types, batch CLI, no browser.

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