Pretty Mermaid Skills
AI Agent Skill to generate and render beautiful Mermaid diagrams as SVG or terminal ASCII — 15 themes, 6 diagram types, batch CLI, no browser.
Pretty Mermaid Skills is an open-source agent skill by imxv, written mainly in JavaScript, with 1,556 GitHub stars and the MIT license. Its code was last updated Aug 22, 2026.
Pretty Mermaid
Beautiful Mermaid diagrams for AI agents
Turn Mermaid source into polished SVGs, shareable PNGs, and terminal-ready ASCII—locally, without a browser.

🚀 Install
npx skills add imxv/pretty-mermaid-skills@pretty-mermaid -g -y
View the skill, install count, and security audits on skills.sh →
Why Pretty Mermaid?
- Made for AI agents: works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more
- One source, three outputs: polished SVG for docs, PNG for sharing, and ASCII/Unicode for terminals
- No browser required: renders locally without Chromium, Puppeteer, or a DOM
- Flexible by default: 15 themes, custom colors, six diagram types, and batch rendering
✨ Features
- 📊 Multi-format Support: SVG, PNG, and ASCII rendering export
- 🎨 Rich Themes: 15 built-in themes for different scenarios
- 📈 Six Diagram Types: Flowchart, Sequence, State, Class, ER, and XY charts
- ⚡ High Performance: Batch parallel rendering
- 📚 Ready to Use: Complete templates and detailed documentation
Supported Themes
| Light Themes | Dark Themes | Other |
|---|---|---|
| zinc-light | zinc-dark | nord |
| tokyo-night-light | tokyo-night | nord-light |
| catppuccin-latte | tokyo-night-storm | dracula |
| github-light | catppuccin-mocha | one-dark |
| solarized-light | github-dark | |
| solarized-dark |
🎨 Theme Gallery
Compare the same flowchart across every built-in theme in the complete 15-theme gallery.
<p align="center"> <img src="assets/theme_gallery/tokyo-night.svg" alt="Tokyo Night theme preview" width="49%"> <img src="assets/theme_gallery/github-light.svg" alt="GitHub Light theme preview" width="49%"> </p>🤖 AI Assistant Integration
Seamlessly integrates with the following AI coding environments:
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Gemini CLI
- Antigravity
- OpenCode
- Codex
- qoder
Installation details
Install from GitHub
npx skills add imxv/pretty-mermaid-skills@pretty-mermaid -g -y
Verify Installation
npx skills list -g
Confirm that pretty-mermaid appears in the global skill list. Node.js 16 or newer is required.
📖 Quick Start
List Available Themes
node scripts/themes.mjs
Render Single Diagram
node scripts/render.mjs \
--input diagram.mmd \
--output output.svg \
--theme tokyo-night
Render PNG
node scripts/render.mjs \
--input diagram.mmd \
--output output.png \
--format png \
--width 1200 \
--theme tokyo-night
Batch Render
node scripts/batch.mjs \
--input-dir ./diagrams \
--output-dir ./output \
--theme dracula
📂 Examples
Check the 6 template files in assets/example_diagrams/:
flowchart.mmd- Flowchartsequence.mmd- Sequence Diagramstate.mmd- State Diagramclass.mmd- Class Diagramer.mmd- ER Diagramxychart.mmd- XY Chart (bar and line)
PNG output is rendered directly in Node.js with no external converter required. The renderer also supports CJK state names, multiline labels, linkStyle, configurable ELK layout spacing, interactive XY chart tooltips, and ANSI-colored terminal output.
📚 Documentation
- Skill usage guide
- Theme gallery
- Diagram syntax reference
- Theme and custom color reference
- beautiful-mermaid API reference
- Release process
🤝 Community
Read the contribution guide, report problems with the issue templates, and review the security policy before sharing sensitive findings. Release history is tracked in the changelog.
⚙️ Requirements
- Node.js 16+
📄 License
MIT License
Star History
🙏 Acknowledgments
Based on beautiful-mermaid
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