Gallery
An infinite canvas in the browser that you edit by hand while agents edit it beside you.
Every diagram toucan starts from, as it draws them. Each one is ordinary shapes you can change. These same diagrams are the test set for layout, so a change that makes one worse fails the build.
Start one with toucan new NAME --template ID, or from Start from on the index page. An agent can read the description behind any of them with toucan templates show ID, then draw its own in the same form with toucan --canvas NAME draw -. See See it work for that in action.
Processes
What happens, in what order, and who does it.
Flowchart
A process with decisions: how something gets done, and what happens when it goes wrong.
toucan new NAME --template flowchart
Swimlane process
A process across several people or teams, so handoffs show.
toucan new NAME --template swimlane
Build pipeline
Stages with dependencies: builds, data pipelines, project plans.
toucan new NAME --template pipeline
State machine
The states something moves through, and what moves it.
toucan new NAME --template state-machine
Cycle
A loop that repeats: plan, do, check, act.
toucan new NAME --template cycle
Sequence diagram
Who says what to whom, in order: protocols and integrations.
toucan new NAME --template sequence
Structures
What belongs under what.
Org chart
Who reports to whom.
toucan new NAME --template org-chart
Decision tree
Choosing between outcomes, one question at a time.
toucan new NAME --template decision-tree
Mind map
Getting ideas out and grouping them, around one central topic.
toucan new NAME --template mind-map
Systems
Named parts and the real connections between them.
Layered architecture
How a system is layered, and what talks to what.
toucan new NAME --template architecture
Service map
Services and their dependencies, grouped by boundary.
toucan new NAME --template services
Network topology
How machines and networks connect.
toucan new NAME --template network
Entity relationships
A data model: what is stored, and how it relates.
toucan new NAME --template er-diagram
Time
Where position means a date.
Roadmap
What happens when, by team or workstream.
toucan new NAME --template roadmap
Timeline
Events in order: a history, an incident, a project.
toucan new NAME --template timeline
Work and decisions
Sorting things, comparing them, and working out why.
Kanban board
Work by status.
toucan new NAME --template kanban
2x2 matrix
Sorting options along two dimensions.
toucan new NAME --template quadrant
Customer journey
A person’s experience across stages, and where it hurts.
toucan new NAME --template journey-map
Responsibility chart
Who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed.
toucan new NAME --template responsibility
Comparison table
Weighing options against criteria.
toucan new NAME --template comparison
Fishbone diagram
Finding the causes behind a problem.
toucan new NAME --template fishbone
Funnel
Stages that narrow, and where people drop out.
toucan new NAME --template funnel