2 posts tagged with "agent"

Confluence holds your team's diagrams in two worlds, and the two don't talk to each other.

Text-defined diagrams — Mermaid and friends — are what AI speaks natively. They're source code, so a chat agent can read them, write them, and revise them. We shipped exactly that last week: an AI agent for Mermaid in Confluence.

Whiteboards are the other world. Freeform shapes, hand-drawn lines, arrows you drag where they need to go — the format that's actually intuitive to put in front of people. Every team has one: the architecture board on the team page, the incident flow everyone references, the onboarding map. And AI couldn't touch any of it. Ask a chat agent for a change to a whiteboard and you'd get a text description of a change, and someone still had to open the canvas and do it by hand.

That gap is why whiteboards go stale. Editing shapes one drag at a time is slow enough that nobody does it, and AI — the thing that was supposed to make maintenance cheap — had no way in.

The AI agent in Excalidraw Plus Whiteboards & AI Agent for Confluence closes the gap: the whiteboard stays what it always was — visual, intuitive, for people — but now you can operate it in plain language, from Confluence chat.

Confluence chat can write your page, summarize the thread, and answer questions about the space. What it couldn't do — until now — is draw. If you asked for "a flowchart of our deployment process," you got a text description of a flowchart, and someone still had to open an editor and build it.

The AI agent in Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence closes that gap: it creates, reads, updates, and converts Mermaid diagrams directly on Confluence pages and blog posts, from chat.