Markdown Mermaid Writing

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name: markdown-mermaid-writing
description: Comprehensive markdown and Mermaid diagram writing skill. Use when creating any scientific document, report, analysis, or visualization. Establishes text-based diagrams as the default documentation standard with full style guides (markdown + mermaid), 24 diagram type references, and 9 document templates.
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
license: Apache-2.0
metadata: {"version": "1.1", "skill-author": "Clayton Young / Superior Byte Works, LLC (@borealBytes)", "skill-source": "https://github.com/SuperiorByteWorks-LLC/agent-project", "skill-version": "1.0.0", "skill-contributors": "Clayton Young (Superior Byte Works, LLC / @borealBytes; Author and originator); K-Dense Team (K-Dense Inc.; Integration target and community feedback)"}
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# Markdown and Mermaid Writing

## Overview

This skill teaches you — and enforces a standard for — creating scientific documentation
using **markdown with embedded Mermaid diagrams as the default and canonical format**.

The core bet: a relationship expressed as a Mermaid diagram inside a `.md` file is more
valuable than any image. It is text, so it diffs cleanly in git. It requires no build step.
It renders natively on GitHub, GitLab, Notion, VS Code, and any markdown viewer. It uses
fewer tokens than a prose description of the same relationship. And it can always be
converted to a polished image later — but the text version remains the source of truth.

> "The more you get your reports and files in .md in just regular text, which mermaid is
> as well as being a simple 'script language'. This just helps with any downstream rendering
> and especially AI generated images (using mermaid instead of just long form text to
> describe relationships < tokens). Additionally mermaid can render along with markdown for… load the full skill through Skill Me