archify

archify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NousResearch/hermes-agent. It costs 12 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns typed diagram instructions or Mermaid text into interactive HTML diagrams. It supports architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams that can be explored in a browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document software architecture, workflows, interactions between components, data movement, and state changes.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to turn system information into diagrams that can be searched, navigated, checked, and exported as image or video files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to document software architecture, workflows, interactions between components, data movement, and state changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/archify
About the project

Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 244,603 stars · on GitHub · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

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 NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill archify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 600 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.
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 $0.00012 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00060

Measured today against content hash 34fb98942ef0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archify 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 today.

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.

optional-skills/creative/archify/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Archify (upstream-maintained)

Catalog stub. This entry is maintained upstream at tt-a1i/archify: the project ships a self-contained skill directory (archify/) with the Node CLI, schemas, renderers, examples and references. hermes skills install official/creative/archify pulls the current tree live from that repo (quarantined and scanned like any hub install) — this directory holds only the catalog metadata, so the vendored copy can never go stale.

Archify turns a small typed JSON spec into a self-contained, explorable HTML diagram: architecture, workflow, sequence, dataflow and lifecycle (state machine) types, dark/light themes, pan/zoom, search, relationship tracing, optional trace motion, and PNG/JPEG/WebP/SVG/WebM export. It accepts plain-language requirements or pasted Mermaid (flowchart, sequenceDiagram, stateDiagram) and can read repository evidence when the diagram must reflect real code. Every candidate goes through a 9-check validate / deliver receipt, so the output is verifiable rather than eyeballed.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+ on PATH (node bin/archify.mjs doctor confirms the install; no npm install is needed inside the skill package).
  • Installs pull ~200 files (~8 MB, mostly upstream tests and examples) from GitHub; the fetch is pinned to one tree SHA, recorded in the bundle metadata.
  • Upstream's "Update awareness" step runs scripts/check-update.mjs, which reads a release manifest from GitHub and only prints a notice — it never downloads or installs anything. Skip it if outbound calls are unwanted.

After install, the bundled architecture-diagram skill remains the zero-dependency fallback (it ports the same Cocoon AI lineage archify grew out of); prefer archify when the user wants validated receipts, Mermaid conversion, sequence/lifecycle types, or export beyond a single HTML file.

Full documentation: https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify#readme

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. today First seen · 53 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 34fb98942ef0

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archify is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (244,603 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-12.