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Arc Agent — AI skill for Claude Code

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Go CLI using AI for structured system design documents, artifacts, and Mermaid diagrams.

How to install Arc Agent

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ariel-frischer/arc-agent and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Arc Agent does

Go CLI using AI for structured system design documents, artifacts, and Mermaid diagrams.

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README

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**AI Generated Software System Design**

[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) ![Platform: macOS + Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-macOS%20%7C%20Linux-blue)

`arc-agent` is a Go CLI that uses AI to generate system design documents and diagrams. It runs each design stage through a non-interactive agent session or direct structured-output runner, validates the output, repairs failures, and renders reviewable Markdown and Mermaid diagrams.

The staged workflow is inspired by Hello Interview's [System Design in a Hurry](https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/system-design/in-a-hurry/introduction) guide, especially its focus on practical requirements navigation, trade-offs, and clear communication.

![Example arc-agent Excalidraw architecture diagram](examples/spotify-direct/diagram.excalidraw.png)

_Generated design workspace output: validated YAML, `DESIGN.md`, Mermaid, and Excalidraw._

Install

**macOS and Linux only.** Windows users should run the installer from WSL.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariel-frischer/arc-agent/main/install.sh | sh

The installer writes to `~/.local/bin` by default. If another `arc-agent` appears earlier on `PATH`, for example from `make install-global`, the installer will keep that binary untouched and print the direct path to the newly installed release.