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markdown-mermaid-writing
Writes scientific documents and documentation as markdown with embedded Mermaid diagrams as the canonical, git-diffable source format. Covers a markdown style guide, a Mermaid style guide, 24 Mermaid diagram type references (flowchart, sequence, ER, Gantt, state, mindmap, radar, sankey, XY chart, and others), and 9 templates (research paper, status report, decision record, how-to, pull request, issue, kanban, presentation, project documentation). Use when writing a report, manuscript, README, or analysis in markdown. Use when adding a workflow, pipeline, timeline, or architecture diagram to a document. Use when choosing the right Mermaid diagram type or fixing Mermaid syntax such as radar-beta or xychart-beta. Use when starting from a document template or checking citations and heading rules. Not for scatter plots of real data or photorealistic images; use Python plotting or scientific-schematics for those.
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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