Archify is an open-source AI agent skill and visual architecture engine with over 37,000 GitHub stars, engineered specifically for autonomous developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and OpenCode. Rather than requiring developers to manually sketch cloud topologies or write brittle text-based diagrams, Archify empowers AI agents to generate deterministic, typed JSON intermediate representations (IR) that compile into animated, interactive HTML and SVG architecture diagrams.
The core architecture of Archify features an intelligent layout engine capable of rendering multi-tier microservices, message queues, relational databases, and serverless edge functions with responsive light and dark themes. Uniquely designed for code refactoring and infrastructure migrations, Archify includes a visual "Delta" engine that displays animated Before, Proposed Change, and After state diffs directly in pull request descriptions and documentation portals.
Operating with zero cloud daemon dependencies, Archify can be installed globally as an agent skill via npm (`npx skills add tt-a1i/archify -g`) or integrated as a library in automated CI/CD documentation workflows. It features native reach-tracing animations, allowing engineers to visualize how a network packet or asynchronous event traverses distributed system nodes during execution.
Licensed under the permissive MIT open-source license ($0 software cost), Archify bridges the gap between AI coding assistants and visual software engineering, ensuring that complex multi-file architectural changes are visually documented and immediately understandable by human reviewers.
