Diagrams in chat

Scient turns a completed mermaid Markdown fence into an inline diagram. This works well for research workflows, architectures, timelines, state changes, entity relationships, and other explanations where the connections matter. The same rendering is available for Mermaid fences in Markdown file previews. Ask the AI to make a Mermaid diagram when a process, hierarchy, or relationship would be easier to understand visually than as a list of steps.

The diagram card lets you:

• expand and zoom the diagram;
• show or copy its Mermaid source;
• download a scalable SVG;
• copy or download a high-resolution PNG; and
• retry or read the original source if the diagram is malformed.

While an answer is still being written, Scient shows the Mermaid source as an ordinary code block. Rendering begins only after the answer settles and the diagram is close to the visible conversation. A bad or unsupported diagram never makes the rest of the answer disappear.

The Mermaid source remains the original content in the conversation. Copying the whole answer preserves a fenced mermaid block, so it remains readable where an interactive diagram is unavailable. Rendering and image export happen locally; Scient does not send diagram source to a rendering service.

Rendering is local and restricted: source callbacks and remote asset loaders are not activated. Very large diagrams are rejected instead of slowing the whole conversation.

An inline diagram is not automatically saved as a project file. Ask the agent to create a real .mmd, SVG, or other project artifact when you need something durable and editable outside the conversation.