YuzuDraw

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beautiful ascii diagrams

A macOS-native ASCII diagram editor with an agent skill. Let Codex or Claude generate your diagrams, then refine them on a visual canvas.

Download for Mac View on GitHub

Agent generating a diagram via YuzuDraw CLI

From Prompt to Canvas

The unified skill spans structural diagrams, process flow, metric comparison, and small terminal art without switching tools or modes.

Why It Feels So Good

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Multiple Export Formats

Export as plain ASCII text, PNG, or SVG. You can also copy diagrams straight to your clipboard.

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Layers & Grouping

Organize shapes with a hierarchical layer panel. Toggle visibility, lock layers, reorder with drag-and-drop, and group with ⌘G.

DSL ↔ ASCII

Token-Friendly DSL

A lightweight, human-readable language for describing diagrams. Token-efficient and easy for LLMs to generate.

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Native macOS

Built with SwiftUI. Fast, lightweight, and feels right at home on your Mac.

quickstart

Get Running

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    Install the CLI + skill

    curl -fsSL https://www.yuzudraw.com/install.sh | sh
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    Prompt your agent

    /draw a cute robot ascii art
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    Refine it on the canvas

    Open the generated .yuzudraw file in the app and keep editing visually.

♥ Sponsor YuzuDraw

Sponsorship helps cover ongoing development and the Apple Developer membership for releases.