plantuml-syntax

plantuml-syntax is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tractorjuice/arckit-gemini. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for writing PlantUML diagrams, including architecture, sequence, class, activity, state, database, component, deployment, and use-case diagrams. PlantUML is a text format that generates diagrams from written instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or fix PlantUML diagrams, including C4 architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, and diagrams with themes or custom styling.
Why use it?
It helps resolve syntax, layout, styling, and rendering problems without having to remember each diagram type's notation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write or fix PlantUML diagrams, including C4 architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, and diagrams with themes or custom styling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tractorjuice/arckit-gemini/plantuml-syntax
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 tractorjuice/arckit-gemini --skill plantuml-syntax
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tractorjuice/arckit-gemini

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,197 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 $0.00095 $0.01197
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00120

Measured 5d ago against content hash 449ad15605cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plantuml-syntax 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 5d 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/plantuml-syntax/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlantUML Syntax Reference

A comprehensive reference for PlantUML diagram types with a focus on C4-PlantUML for architecture diagrams. This skill provides syntax documentation adapted from the SpillwaveSolutions/plantuml project, supplemented with ArcKit-specific C4 layout conflict rules and best practices.

This skill ships reference material, not runnable scripts. Read the relevant reference file with Read, apply the syntax, and write the diagram into the user's artefact. Do not Bash-execute anything from references/ — they are PlantUML/C4 syntax docs, not commands.

Supported Diagram Types

Select the appropriate diagram type and read the corresponding reference file:

Type Reference ArcKit Commands Using It
C4-PlantUML c4-plantuml.md /arckit:diagram (C4 Context, Container, Component)
Sequence Diagram sequence-diagrams.md /arckit:diagram (Sequence mode)
Class Diagram class-diagrams.md
Activity Diagram activity-diagrams.md
State Diagram state-diagrams.md
ER Diagram er-diagrams.md
Component Diagram component-diagrams.md
Use Case Diagram use-case-diagrams.md
Deployment Diagram deployment-diagrams.md

Styling & Errors

Topic Reference
Common Syntax Errors common-syntax-errors.md
Styling Guide styling-guide.md

C4-PlantUML (Primary Use Case)

The C4-PlantUML reference is the most important file for ArcKit users. It covers:

  • Include URLs for C4 libraries
  • Element syntax (Person, System, Container, Component, and their variants)
  • Boundary syntax (System_Boundary, Container_Boundary)
  • Directional relationships (Rel_Down, Rel_Right, Rel_Up, Rel_Left, Rel_Neighbor)
  • Layout constraints (Lay_Right, Lay_Down, Lay_Distance)
  • LAYOUT CONFLICT RULES — critical rules to prevent rendering failures when layout hints contradict relationship directions
  • Tier-based layout patterns
  • Worked examples for Context, Container, and Component diagrams

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines · +37 tokens per session 449ad15605cf
  2. 10d ago First seen · 72 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A cdbfff5c23ce

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plantuml-syntax is a skill published in the GitHub repository tractorjuice/arckit-gemini (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,197 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.