Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

Posted by _ben_ 3 hours ago

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Comment by recsv-heredoc 1 hour ago

I tried to find them on GitHub. Doesn't seem to be FOSS/OSS either.

Does address a real use-case - might be great as a library or a lightweight alternative to Mermaid.

As SaaS it's a very hard sell.

Comment by easygenes 27 minutes ago

Yeah, agree. This is the sort of thing you release to build brand awareness and either offer a hosted option as a bonus or integrate into a larger stack. It is not the product. Someone will just make a better OSS option if they don't do it themselves.

Comment by alxhslm 1 hour ago

I’ve found that Claude can make decent mermaid diagrams pretty reliably. Not sure I quite understand what problem Zindex solves

Comment by billyp-rva 55 minutes ago

> I’ve found that Claude can make decent mermaid diagrams pretty reliably.

When doing this, do you give it a codebase and ask for a diagram, or is it more of an iterative back-and-forth where you describe the system to it.

Comment by easygenes 17 minutes ago

Claude tends to default to and do best with first making ASCII diagrams in markdown files, which you can then ask it to translate into Mermaid if appropriate.

Prompts like, "Please write a comprehensive report on _____ to work with _____. Include a holistic report on architecture and meaning and purpose of all involved systems. Describe the why and how of the changes in depth and include a full glossary of terms and systems. Write as a new .md in docs when you are sure there are no major gaps in your understanding. Include a report on the plan to _____."

Will be the rough shape you want to get it to dig through all the relevant code and make relevant architectural diagrams. Guide more or less towards specifics as appropriate. This has worked well since Opus 4.5.

Comment by billyp-rva 8 minutes ago

Gotcha. So this is more for diagrams of new systems than existing ones. Our maybe a blend of new and old.

Comment by easygenes 13 seconds ago

You could have it propose a spec or review a proposed spec to also get diagrams in a similar manner.

Comment by 0x696C6961 1 hour ago

I just use D2 for this.

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Comment by _ben_ 3 hours ago

Zindex is a stateful diagram runtime for agents. Agents create diagrams by sending structured operations through the Diagram Scene Protocol (DSP) - the platform validates, normalizes, and renders durable scene state rather than one-shot output.

Comment by hmokiguess 1 hour ago

how does Zindex compares to Mermaid?