utility-mermaid-diagrams

utility-mermaid-diagrams is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,441 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to creating diagrams in Mermaid, a text format that turns instructions into diagrams. It explains which diagram type fits a communication need and how to check that the diagram will render correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding flows, relationships, timelines, or other diagrams to product requirements, technical specifications, roadmaps, or presentations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent diagrams from failing to render or communicating poorly. It also helps decide when a diagram is clearer than a list or table.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding flows, relationships, timelines, or other diagrams to product requirements, technical specifications, roadmaps, or presentations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/utility-mermaid-diagrams
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-mermaid-diagrams
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,441 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
  • Socket pass 27 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00061 $0.01441
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00144

Measured 9d ago against content hash aeb8d8462f02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

utility-mermaid-diagrams 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 9d 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.

skills/utility-mermaid-diagrams/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mermaid Diagrams

Create effective, syntactically valid mermaid diagrams for product documents.

When to Use

  • Creating mermaid diagrams for PRDs, specs, roadmaps, or stakeholder presentations
  • Choosing which of 15 diagram types fits a specific communication need
  • Debugging mermaid code that won't render or renders incorrectly
  • Reviewing diagrams for clarity, accuracy, and accessibility

When NOT to Use

  • Exporting diagrams to image files (PNG/SVG) - that's a rendering tool concern
  • Using non-mermaid diagramming tools (Figma, Lucidchart, draw.io)
  • Creating purely decorative visuals with no informational purpose
  • Producing a full customer-journey artifact (stages, touchpoints, emotional curve, pain points) rather than a standalone diagram - use discover-journey-map, which composes this skill for its timeline or flowchart section

The Cardinal Rule

Don't diagram what a list can say.

Diagrams earn their place when they reveal relationships, branching, or flow that prose flattens. Before creating any diagram, ask:

Does this show branching, relationships, or flow that a list or table would flatten?

  • Yes → proceed with a diagram
  • No → use a numbered list, bullet list, or table instead

A 5-step linear process is a list. A 5-step process with two decision points and a retry loop is a diagram.

Diagram Selection Guide

I need to show... Use Also consider
A decision or approval process Flowchart State
Multi-service or multi-party interactions Sequence Flowchart
Feature lifecycle or status transitions State Flowchart
Work stages or pipeline status Kanban State
Release or sprint timeline with dependencies Gantt Timeline
Version history or chronological milestones Timeline Gantt
2D prioritization (effort/impact, risk/value) Quadrant -
Allocation breakdown or composition Pie Treemap
Problem decomposition or brainstorming Mindmap -
Domain models or data relationships ER Class
API or object contracts Class ER
System topology or infrastructure Architecture Flowchart
Flow quantities or budget allocation Sankey Pie
Hierarchical proportional data Treemap Pie
Trends or time-series metrics XY-Chart -

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 9d ago First seen · 122 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A aeb8d8462f02

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utility-mermaid-diagrams is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,441 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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