c4-diagramming

c4-diagramming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating software-architecture diagrams with the C4 model, which shows a system at different levels of detail: the overall system, its major parts, smaller components, and code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and review system-context, container, component, or code-level diagrams in Mermaid or Structurizr, including labels, relationships, and accessibility checks.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose the right amount of detail and keep diagrams understandable for their intended readers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan and review system-context, container, component, or code-level diagrams in Mermaid or Structurizr, including labels, relationships, and accessibility checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/c4-diagramming
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill c4-diagramming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin c4-diagramming/plugin install c4-diagramming after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,794 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.01794
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00897
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00179

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7f064bd02553, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c4-diagramming scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

c4-diagramming/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

C4 Diagramming

C4 Model for structural architecture visualization. Produces diagrams at four zoom levels, mapped into the artifact pyramid.

C4-to-Pyramid Mapping

C4 Level Pyramid Layer Path
Level 1: System Context L1 (Summary) 01-summary/system-context.md
Level 2: Container L2 (Analysis) 02-analysis/structural-views/container.md
Level 3: Component L2 (Analysis) 02-analysis/structural-views/components.md
Level 4: Code L3 (Dossiers) 03-dossiers/code-level-detail.md

C4 is the cleanest structural fit — its four-level hierarchy maps to the three pyramid layers with almost no translation, and Levels 2-3 both resolve to separate L2 analysis files.

Communication Gate

Before choosing notation or polishing layout, state the audience and the job the reader must complete. Select one C4 level that answers that job; do not mix system context, container, component, and code claims merely to fill a canvas. Keep the abstraction level, element vocabulary, boundary treatment, and relationship meaning consistent within a view. A structurally valid C4 model can still be the wrong communication artifact if it asks the reader to infer the purpose, mixes levels, hides important paths, or overwhelms the intended reader.

Load references/technical-diagram-communication.md when creating, revising, or reviewing a diagram for a real audience. Use its review record to check narrative/read order, visual hierarchy, labels and legends, signal-to-noise, color-independent meaning, accessibility handoff, uncertainty, and review evidence. Full accessibility conformance remains owned by web-accessibility; architecture decisions remain owned by software-architecture.

Review Evidence

Record the intended audience and question, C4 level and scope, key claim, known uncertainty, target renderer, and an accessible text or tabular fallback. Review both the source model and the rendered artifact. A passing syntax/model validator proves structural validity only; it does not prove that the diagram communicates the intended claim.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 119 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 7f064bd02553

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c4-diagramming is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,794 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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