When to Use This Skill
Proactively use this skill after:
- Creating new mermaid diagrams in markdown files
- Editing existing mermaid diagrams
- User asks to validate/check mermaid diagrams
Always validate before completing the task.
Instructions
- Read the markdown file (use the file from context or ask user which file to validate)
- Run validation using:
mmdc -i <file-path> -o /tmp/mermaid-validation.svg 2>&1 - Report validation results:
- If valid: Confirm the diagram is valid and exit
- If invalid: Show the errors found and explain what's wrong
- Fix the issues automatically (invalid diagrams have no value)
- Re-validate to confirm the fix worked
- Repeat steps 4-5 until there are no validation issues