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
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things[1], which adds relative placement constraints, and provides agent skills. Nearby on the front page just now, fwiw.
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[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513