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diagrams

Pins the diagrams Claude draws to a chip above the prompt: expand it in place, open it full screen or in the browser, and see it as a rendered picture

Code you can checkTerminal + desktopPaneBandToastBoxButtonText
writes files, runs programs, draws

What it does

  • Draws a band above the prompt, a pane, toasts
  • Adds /diagrams
  • Watches mcp__diagrams__show_diagram calls and can refuse them
  • Hooks prompt.compose, session.start, turn.complete, turn.start and 1 more
  • Starts processes

Good points

  • No network calls
  • Written in TypeScript
  • Handles errors

Code to start from

A starter ModsCode writes from the drawing it read, and the mod's own lines that draw, where there are any.

Starter (register.tsx)

register.tsx
import type { Register } from 'claude-code'

// Drawn like diagrams by Tomas Varga (pane, band, toast), as ModsCode read it from the mod's code:
// https://modscode.com/claude-mods/mods/tomasvarga-diagrams/
// Written by ModsCode from that reading, not copied from the mod: use it as you like.
// Each value below stands for one the mod works out at run time; put in your own.
export const register: Register = on => {
  // the band above the prompt; what else goes there is drawn under it
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const title = '…'
    const hidden = '…'
    const label = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Box justifyContent="flex-end">
          <Box flexDirection="column" borderStyle="round">
            <Box gap={1} paddingX={1}>
              <Text>
                ◉
              </Text>
              <Text bold wrap="truncate-end">
                {title}
              </Text>
            </Box>
            <Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={1} paddingY="0">
              <Text wrap="truncate-end">
                {" "}
              </Text>
              <Text wrap="truncate-end">
                {" "}
              </Text>
              <Text wrap="truncate-end">
                {" "}
              </Text>
            </Box>
            <Text>
              {`  … ${hidden} more lines in full screen`}
            </Text>
            <Box justifyContent="space-between" paddingX={1}>
              <Box flexShrink={0}>
                <Text>
                  {" "}
                </Text>
              </Box>
              <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
                <Text>
                  ·
                </Text>
                <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
                <Text>
                  ·
                </Text>
                <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
                <Text>
                  ·
                </Text>
                <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
              </Box>
            </Box>
          </Box>
        </Box>
        {await next(e)}
      </Box>
    )
  })

  // the pane: open it with $.ui.open({ id: 'my-pane', title: "Diagram" })
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: 'my-pane' }, async ($, e) => {
    const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const title = '…'
    const left = '…'
    const widest = '…'
    const label = '…'
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column">
        <Box gap={1} paddingX={1}>
          <Text>
            ◉
          </Text>
          <Text bold wrap="truncate-end">
            {title}
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" flexGrow={1}>
          <Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={1} paddingY="1">
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {" "}
            </Text>
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {" "}
            </Text>
            <Text wrap="truncate-end">
              {" "}
            </Text>
          </Box>
        </Box>
        <Box justifyContent="space-between" paddingX={1}>
          <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
            <Button label="◀" plain />
            <Text>
              {"columns "}
              {`${left}1`}
              –
              {left}
              {" of "}
              {widest}
            </Text>
            <Button label="▶" plain />
          </Box>
          <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
            <Text>
              ·
            </Text>
            <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
            <Text>
              ·
            </Text>
            <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
            <Text>
              ·
            </Text>
            <Button label={`${label}`} plain />
          </Box>
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )
  })

  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
    const title = '…'
    await $.ui.toast(`Could not render "${title}" as a picture; showing the text`)
    await $.ui.toast(`Diagram opened in your browser`)
    return next(e)
  })
}

The mod's own code

Shown under the mod's licence (MIT); its text is below. Keep the notice if you copy these lines.

hooks/register.tsx lines 206–339 · Band
  on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
    const all = await read($, list)
    const at = clamp(await read($, index), all.length)
    const diagram = all[at]

    if (!diagram || e.props.hasSurvey) {
      return next(e)
    }

    const elements = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const { Box, Button, Text } = elements
    // Pictures draw only where the surface has Image (the terminal); elsewhere the text.
    const Image = 'Image' in elements ? elements.Image : undefined
    const step = (by: number) => () => update($, index, i => clamp(i + by, all.length))
    const showsPicture = isPictures && !!Image && !!diagram.picture && !(await read($, isText))
    const toggle: Action[] = isPictures && diagram.picture
      ? [{ key: 'view', label: showsPicture ? '⌗ text' : '▦ picture', onPress: () => update($, isText, text => !text) }]
      : []
    const expand = () => update($, isOpen, () => true)
    const collapse = () => update($, isOpen, () => false)
    const fullScreen = async () => {
      await collapse()
      await openPane($)
    }
    const navigation = all.length > 1 && (
      <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
        {/* Words beside the arrows: a one-cell arrow is too small to hit. */}
        <Button key="prev" label="‹ prev" plain onPress={step(-1)} />
        <Text {...S.muted}>
          {at + 1}/{all.length}
        </Text>
        <Button key="next" label="next ›" plain onPress={step(1)} />
      </Box>
    )

    // While Claude works the chip is a bare symbol, out of the way, that still expands.
    if (e.props.isWorking && !(await read($, isOpen))) {
      return (
        <Box justifyContent="flex-end">
          <Box borderStyle="round" {...S.rule} paddingX={1} gap={1}>
            <Button key="open-symbol" label={PULSE[(await read($, pulse)) % PULSE.length]!} plain onPress={expand} />
            {all.length > 1 && <Text {...S.muted}>{all.length}</Text>}
            <Button key="open" label="⤢" plain onPress={expand} />
          </Box>
        </Box>
      )
    }

    if (await read($, isOpen)) {
      return <Box justifyContent="flex-end">{expandedCard()}</Box>
    }

    // Full screen is open: the chip says so and closes it.
    if (await read($, isFull)) {
      return (
        <Box justifyContent="flex-end">
          <Box borderStyle="round" {...S.highlight} paddingX={1} gap={1}>
            <Text {...S.accent}>⛶</Text>
            <Text bold {...S.text} wrap="truncate-end">
              {diagram.title}
            </Text>
            <Text {...S.muted}>in full screen</Text>
            <Button key="close-full" label="close" onPress={() => closePane($)} />
          </Box>
        </Box>
      )
    }

    const shown = await read($, reveal)
    const title = shown < 0 ? diagram.title : diagram.title.slice(0, shown)

    return (
      <Box justifyContent="flex-end">
        <Box borderStyle="round" {...S.rule} paddingX={1} gap={1}>
          <Text {...S.accent}>◆</Text>
          {/* The whole title expands too, not only the small button at the end. */}
          <Button key="open-title" label={title || ' '} plain onPress={expand} />
          {shown < 0 && navigation}
          <Button key="open" label="expand" variant="primary" onPress={expand} />
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )

    // The chip grown into a card in place. Painting it over the chat (an absolute
    // Box above the band) left the chat garbled in a fullscreen terminal, so it takes
    // its rows; a diagram taller than the band's room is cut, with full screen offered.
    function expandedCard() {
      const lines = diagram!.source.split('\n')
      // One width for every diagram in the history, so switching doesn't move the controls.
      const widest = Math.max(...all.flatMap(one => one.source.split('\n').map(line => [...line].length)), 56)
      // Wide enough for every diagram's text and, with pictures on, its picture at actual size.
      const pictured = isPictures ? Math.max(0, ...all.map(one => (one.picture ? Math.ceil(one.picture.width / PIXELS_PER_COLUMN) : 0))) : 0
      const width = Math.min(e.props.bodyColumns, Math.max(widest, pictured) + 4)
      // The band's rows less the card's own: two border rows, the title bar, the footer
      // and the "more lines" note; more than that and the band scrolls, cutting off the top.
      const room = Math.max(4, e.props.maxRows - 5)
      const hidden = Math.max(0, lines.length - room)

      return (
        <Box flexDirection="column" width={width} borderStyle="round" {...S.highlight} backgroundColor={S.background}>
          <Box gap={1} paddingX={1} backgroundColor={S.surface}>
            <Text {...S.accent} backgroundColor={S.surface}>
              ◉
            </Text>
            <Text bold {...S.text} backgroundColor={S.surface} wrap="truncate-end">
              {diagram!.title}
            </Text>
          </Box>
          {showsPicture ? (
            pictureBox(S, Box, Image!, diagram!, width - 4, room)
          ) : (
            diagramLines(S, Box, Text, hidden > 0 ? lines.slice(0, room) : lines, 0)
          )}
          {!showsPicture && hidden > 0 && (
            <Text {...S.muted} backgroundColor={S.background}>
              {`  … ${hidden} more lines in full screen`}
            </Text>
          )}
          {/* Every control on the bottom row, which sits on the prompt and so stays put. */}
          <Box justifyContent="space-between" paddingX={1} backgroundColor={S.background}>
            <Box flexShrink={0}>{navigation || <Text backgroundColor={S.background}> </Text>}</Box>
            {actions(S, Box, Button, Text, [
              ...toggle,
              { key: 'full', label: '⛶ full', onPress: fullScreen },
              { key: 'browser', label: '↗ browser', onPress: () => openInBrowser($, diagram!) },
              { key: 'copy', label: '⧉ copy', onPress: press => copy($, diagram!, press.surface, showsPicture) },
              { key: 'close', label: '✕ close', onPress: collapse },
            ])}
          </Box>
        </Box>
      )
    }

  })
hooks/register.tsx lines 456–471 · Band
function pictureBox(S: Palette, Box: Elements['Box'], Image: TerminalImage, diagram: Diagram, columns: number, rows: number, grows = false) {
  const picture = diagram.picture!
  const rowsPerColumn = (picture.height / picture.width) * CELL_ASPECT
  const wide = Math.min(255, grows ? columns : picture.width / PIXELS_PER_COLUMN, columns, rows / rowsPerColumn)

  return (
    <Box paddingX={1} justifyContent="center" backgroundColor={S.background}>
      <Image
        source={{ file: picture.path, format: 'png' }}
        columns={Math.max(1, Math.round(wide))}
        rows={Math.max(1, Math.min(255, Math.round(wide * rowsPerColumn)))}
        alt={diagram.title}
      />
    </Box>
  )
}
hooks/register.tsx lines 410–420 · Band
function diagramLines(S: Palette, Box: Elements['Box'], Text: Elements['Text'], lines: readonly string[], paddingY: number) {
  return (
    <Box flexDirection="column" paddingX={1} paddingY={paddingY} backgroundColor={S.background}>
      {lines.map((line, row) => (
        <Text key={`line-${row}`} {...S.text} backgroundColor={S.background} wrap="truncate-end">
          {line || ' '}
        </Text>
      ))}
    </Box>
  )
}
hooks/register.tsx lines 595–604 · Band
function actions(S: Palette, Box: Elements['Box'], Button: Elements['Button'], Text: Elements['Text'], list: readonly Action[]) {
  return (
    <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
      {list.flatMap((action, at) => [
        ...(at > 0 ? [<Text key={`dot-${action.key}`} {...S.muted} backgroundColor={S.background}>·</Text>] : []),
        <Button key={action.key} label={action.label} plain onPress={action.onPress} />,
      ])}
    </Box>
  )
}
hooks/register.tsx lines 342–403 · Pane
  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
    const S = fullS
    const diagram = await current($)
    const elements = $.ui.resolve(e)
    const { Box, Button, Text } = elements
    const Image = 'Image' in elements ? elements.Image : undefined

    if (!diagram) {
      return <Text {...S.muted}>No diagrams yet.</Text>
    }

    const lines = diagram.source.split('\n')
    // The pane's width less its padding; a wider diagram pans sideways instead of being cut.
    const visible = Math.max(10, e.props.bodyColumns - 2)
    const widest = Math.max(...lines.map(line => [...line].length))
    const maxPan = Math.max(0, widest - visible)
    const left = Math.min(await read($, pan), maxPan)
    const panBy = (by: number) => () => update($, pan, at => Math.max(0, Math.min(at + by, maxPan)))
    const step = Math.max(10, Math.floor(visible / 2))
    const showsPicture = isPictures && !!Image && !!diagram.picture && !(await read($, isText))

    // At least the pane's height, so the palette fills it and the footer sits at its
    // bottom; a taller diagram makes it longer and the person scrolls with the arrows.
    return (
      <Box flexDirection="column" width={e.props.bodyColumns} minHeight={e.props.scroll.bodyRows} backgroundColor={S.background}>
        <Box gap={1} paddingX={1} backgroundColor={S.surface}>
          <Text {...S.accent} backgroundColor={S.surface}>
            ◉
          </Text>
          <Text bold {...S.text} backgroundColor={S.surface} wrap="truncate-end">
            {diagram.title}
          </Text>
        </Box>
        <Box flexDirection="column" flexGrow={1} backgroundColor={S.background}>
          {showsPicture
            ? pictureBox(S, Box, Image!, diagram, visible, Math.max(4, e.props.scroll.bodyRows - 4), true)
            : diagramLines(S, Box, Text, lines.map(line => [...line].slice(left, left + visible).join('')), 1)}
        </Box>
        <Box justifyContent="space-between" paddingX={1} backgroundColor={S.background}>
          {!showsPicture && maxPan > 0 ? (
            <Box gap={1} flexShrink={0}>
              <Button key="left" label="◀" plain onPress={panBy(-step)} />
              <Text {...S.muted} backgroundColor={S.background}>
                columns {left + 1}–{Math.min(left + visible, widest)} of {widest}
              </Text>
              <Button key="right" label="▶" plain onPress={panBy(step)} />
            </Box>
          ) : (
            <Text backgroundColor={S.background}> </Text>
          )}
          {actions(S, Box, Button, Text, [
            ...(isPictures && diagram.picture
              ? [{ key: 'view', label: showsPicture ? '⌗ text' : '▦ picture', onPress: () => update($, isText, text => !text) }]
              : []),
            { key: 'browser', label: '↗ browser', onPress: () => openInBrowser($, diagram) },
            { key: 'copy', label: '⧉ copy', onPress: press => copy($, diagram, press.surface, showsPicture) },
            { key: 'close', label: '✕ close', onPress: () => closePane($) },
          ])}
        </Box>
      </Box>
    )
  })
Licence text (MIT)
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Copyright (c) 2026 Tomas Varga

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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SOFTWARE.

How to build this: Pane (panel), Deny a tool call

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runs programswrites filesenv varstool calls

What its code shows

Read from the source at commit 0a27085d3783 on 2026-10-11. The first group decides whether a mod is listed; the rest is for you to weigh. A later commit is not read until the next crawl.

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Entry readEvery module hooks/hooks.json names was read.hooks/register.tsx
ParsesEvery file parses as TypeScript or JavaScript.1 files parsed
All its code is in the modEvery import is a file of the mod or the engine's own module; no packages, no require.all its code is in the mod
ReadableNo minified lines, no eval or new Function, no import of a computed path, no encoded blobs.no minified code, no eval, no encoded blobs
Calls in the openNetwork and programs are reached as $.http.fetch and $.process.run in place, never passed around.every call outside goes through $ in the open
For you to weigh before installing
Where it drawsThe terminal, the desktop app, both, or nothing (hooks only: a guard or a prompt rewriter), as its code says. Shown, never a reason to leave a mod out.draws in the terminal and the desktop app, the same in both
Install lineWhether its repository's own .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists it, so it installs from that marketplace with the lines on its page.listed in its repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: installs from there
Programs on WindowsWhether every program it starts through $.process exists on Windows (tail, date, open, osascript, /usr/… do not).runs no program a Windows PC lacks
NetworkWhether every fetch names its https host in the code.no network
ProgramsWhether every program it starts is named in the code and is not a shell, an interpreter or a network tool.hooks/register.tsx:481 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:544 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:576 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:620 a program named at run time; hooks/register.tsx:869 a program named at run time
Reads and sendsWhether it both reads something of yours (files, environment variables, the transcript, settings) and reaches outside (the network, an MCP server, another session, telemetry).reads environment variables, files, but reaches nothing outside
Keys in the sourceWhether the source holds what looks like an API key or a private key.no keys in the source
LicenceAn open licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, 0BSD, CC0) with its text lets ModsCode show its code; otherwise the code is linked.MIT
Settings hooksHooks declared in hooks/hooks.json or plugin.json beside the module: a command (a shell when it has no args), an HTTP request, an MCP tool or a model prompt at an event. They run outside $.no settings hooks: its function hooks alone
Servers it shipsMCP servers (a program, or a URL; a headersHelper is a shell command; a .mcpb bundle is unpacked at run time), LSP servers, monitors (a shell command for the whole session) and bin/ (on the PATH of the Bash tool).ships no MCP or LSP server, no monitor, no bin/
Skills, commands, agentsWhat its Markdown declares beyond text: allowed-tools granted for the turn, hooks added when a skill is invoked, a command run before Claude reads the skill.no skills, commands, agents or workflows
Tools and MCPWhether every tool it calls through $.tool.call and $.mcp.call is named in the code, and none is a shell (Bash through the tool runs a shell without $.process).calls no tool, MCP server or command
Asks of the modelCompletions it runs ($.model.complete, fork, classify), subagents it spawns, prompts it submits as you, and the tools, commands and agents it adds.adds command diagrams
Events it hooksBy what a hook there can do: gates (refuse a tool call, a prompt, a setting, another plugin), shapes (what the model reads: the system prompt, tool descriptions, each request), reads (your input, the events of the settings hooks, every event with *), and the rest.gates: tool.call (mcp__diagrams__show_dia…), command.run (diagrams) · shapes: prompt.compose · also: session.start, turn.start, turn.complete, ui.close (+1) · timers: clock.every, clock.after
Reads, by nameThe environment variables and files it names, and whether it reads the transcript, settings.json, the prompt box or the mouse selection.env: TMPDIR, HERDR_PANE_ID, HERDR_BIN_PATH, TMUX_PANE; files: ….png, a path computed at run time
Writes, by nameThe files and environment variables it names, and whether it changes settings, the prompt box, the clipboard, the conversation (a row the model reads) or another session.files: ….mmd, …/claude-diagram-….html; the clipboard

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/plugin marketplace add tomasvarga/claude-code-diagrams
/plugin install diagrams@claude-code-diagrams
/reload-plugins

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claude plugin validate claude-code-diagrams
claude --plugin-dir claude-code-diagrams

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