Thread

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

178 points · 47 comments · parasitid

armanj · 1790443043 · focus · HN ↗
I've had a fairly thorough exploration of how I can give my agent a whiteboard so we can work on architectures together. To my surprise, current solutions (including Excalidraw) were not good enough and didn't deliver what I wanted. I ended up finding Mermaid to be the most agent-friendly medium and coded an Obsidian plugin for it. It works okay; we can work on the same doc while I bring my own AI agent, and we can brainstorm together. <a href="https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/mermaid-relay" rel="nofollow">https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/mermaid-relay
1. jmtulloss · 1790449470 · focus · HN ↗
  Did you play with TLDraw at all? I’ve had some success with it but haven’t been using it for that particular use case.
  1. armanj · 1790458405 · focus · HN ↗
    i found it a bit later than others and didn't really explored it deep; but yeah still couldn't find what i was looking for out of the box

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.