d2

claude-d2-diagrams

A Claude Code plugin that reads your codebase and draws its infrastructure and architecture with D2, then keeps those diagrams in step with the code as it changes.

Command: /d2:diagram

Example Output

Infrastructure (Simplified)

Architecture (Simplified)

Detailed diagrams are generated alongside these.

Files generated

diagrams/
├── README.md                          landing page embedding every diagram
├── manifest.json                      commit the set was built from, and the paths it depends on
├── infrastructure.md / .d2 / -light.svg / -dark.svg
├── infrastructure-simplified.md / .d2 / -light.svg / -dark.svg
├── architecture.md / .d2 / -light.svg / -dark.svg
└── architecture-simplified.md / .d2 / -light.svg / -dark.svg

Your root README.md gets the two simplified diagrams and a link to the rest.

Features

• Reads Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation/CDK, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Compose, and PaaS configs, plus service entrypoints and dependency manifests
• Detailed docs where every claim cites the file it came from, plus 3 to 8 box overviews for newcomers
• 950+ icons (AWS, GCP, Azure, languages, databases), inlined so they show up on GitHub
• Light and dark SVGs, switched by GitHub's theme
• Animated traffic flow on every connection (respects prefers-reduced-motion)
• TALA layout, with ELK and dagre fallbacks
• An independent verifier checks citations against the code and inspects each render before anything is stamped
• Stays fresh: see below

Staying fresh

diagrams/manifest.json records the commit the diagrams were built from and the source paths they depend on (IaC, service manifests, entrypoints, API specs). Ordinary code changes don't touch it. A new queue in Terraform does.

• Every session: when you open Claude Code in a repo whose diagrams have drifted, it says so in one line. Silent otherwise.
• On demand: /d2:diagram refreshes only what the changed files affect, editing docs and D2 sources in place so the diff shows the change in your system rather than a rewrite.
• In CI: /d2:diagram --ci installs a GitHub Actions workflow. On each push to the default branch it checks for drift with plain git diff, and only when something drifted does it run Claude and open a PR with the refreshed diagrams.

Installation

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/heathdutton/claude-d2-diagrams
claude plugin install d2@claude-d2-diagrams

Or from a clone: claude --plugin-dir ./claude-d2-diagrams

Requires:

• D2 0.9.0 or newer: brew install d2, or curl -fsSL https://d2lang.com/install.sh | sh -s --
• git, for drift tracking, and Python 3.9+, which inlines icons for GitHub. On macOS both come with the Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

Usage

/d2:diagram                        # build, or refresh whatever drifted
/d2:diagram --check                # report drift, change nothing
/d2:diagram --full                 # rebuild everything from scratch
/d2:diagram --infrastructure-only  # one family only
/d2:diagram --architecture-only
/d2:diagram --scope=src/           # limit what gets read
/d2:diagram --ci                   # install the refresh workflow

Customization

Create ./diagrams/rules.md. It overrides naming, scope, icons and layout:

## Naming
- Use "API Gateway" not "APIGW"

## Exclude
- test/
- examples/

## Include (even if not in IaC)
- Cloudflare CDN
- Datadog monitoring

## Icons
- MySQL: https://example.com/mysql.svg

## Layout
- elk

To restyle the animations, copy assets/animations.css to ./diagrams/animations.css and edit it.

Upgrading from 1.x

The first /d2:diagram run detects diagrams made before manifests existed. It refreshes the docs against the code, re-renders every SVG, and stamps a manifest. The re-render fixes two 1.x bugs: icons that came out blank or recolored, and dashed lines whose animation jumped once per loop. The .diagram/ state folder is no longer used and can be deleted.

License

MIT