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Why it mattersHand-drawing an architecture or a plan takes a working hour and still ends in a flat image. A skill that draws it from a sentence lets a team share a diagram other people can click.
A plain Markdown description of a system is cheap. A diagram other people can click is not. Archify is a skill for coding agents that turns the first into the second. The agent reads a sentence or a repository. It writes a stand-alone HTML page a reader can open, zoom and share.
tt-a1i/archify held 87,879 stars on GitHub on 23 October and ranked 21st on Trendshift's daily list. It is MIT-licensed and lists its stable version as 3.2.0, from a changelog entry dated 18 October. The repository names 130,000+ installs on skills.sh in its own badge.
What it draws
Archify runs as a skill for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and OpenCode. The reader sends a prompt like "diagram a web request: browser calls the API, the API checks Redis, and a cache miss queries PostgreSQL". The agent writes a page the reader can open. Each node opens a card. The reader can trace a path, follow a cache miss, or hide one layer.
The agent can also read a repository and write a source-backed map. The README shows a trace of mco-org/mco at a named commit. Code excerpts in the output are pinned to that commit and open in a source card.
A second mode writes a longer page the author calls an "explainer". The agent answers a question first, then builds one panel per sub-question. Each panel can hold a diagram, a table, steps, or code. Steps sit beside the diagram they describe. Claims cite numbered sources.
What is in the file
Every output is a self-contained HTML file. The reader can open it in a browser without installing Archify. The interactions travel with it. External websites and map links need a network connection. The reader can also export the diagram as a PNG, WebP or JPG, or print to PDF.
The skill includes light and dark themes. The user switches by one click. The repository runs in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Who this helps
The target reader is anyone who has to show somebody else how a system works. A founder explaining an idea. An engineer explaining a cache miss during a review. A product manager drawing a plan into a meeting. The claim is that a sentence a reader can speak becomes a diagram the next person can click.
For a team that already runs Mermaid or draw.io, the thing that is different is the output. Archify writes a page, not a flat image. The page carries path tracing, node details and theme switching, and the diagram is one of several panels on it.
What the stars do not say
87,879 stars on a six-month-old repository is at the top of what GitHub shows this year. The 130,000+ installs count is Archify's own and is not independently verified. Neither number says what a reader thought of the diagram when they opened it. The test is to run one real request through it. Pick a system a reader has asked about this week and send the HTML.
Source
tt-a1i/archify on GitHub. Trendshift rank reported by trendshift.io.
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