Skill
Diagram
gstack
Turns a plain-English description of a flow or architecture into an actual diagram - editable source plus rendered image. It draws explanatory pictures, not user-interface designs: it is reached for to visualize how something works, not to style a screen or critique one.
Situations it fits
Your team needs to map out the steps from 'customer clicks buy' to 'warehouse sends invoice' so non-engineer stakeholders can follow the money trail. You definitely do not want another endless Slack thread with DMs.The support team wrote a coffee-stained paragraph about how tickets jump from bot to agent to supervisor, and the eng lead needs a clean shape to paste into Confluence.3 scenarios in the bank answer to Diagram. The rest are in the game.
Skills it gets confused with
These share a family with Diagram, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.
- Design ConsultationStudies your product and the design landscape around it, then proposes a whole design…
- Design ReviewLooks at an interface you have already built with a designer's eye and calls out - then…
- Design ShotgunGenerates several distinct design variations of the same thing at once and lays them on a…
- Stitch Design TasteWrites the brief rather than the build: a design document some other generator reads…
Knowing what Diagram does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.
Today's sessionDiagram is part of garrytan/gstack. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.