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Mermaid viewer that actually works in your terminal

▼ Try it live ▼

Install with Homebrew

brew install tawago/tap/mercat

Then, in Claude Code

/plugin install mercat --marketplace tawago/mercat

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Or…

Try your own diagram

Paste Mermaid, or pick an example. Drag the terminal’s right edge to change its width; mercat redraws to fit, just like mercat -w 80.

10px
mercat80 columns
Loading mercat…

The same diagram in three other terminal renderers

Same source, same 80-column terminal (the dashed line). mermaid-ascii and termaid get the same width limit as mercat; beautiful-mermaid has no width option, so it draws at its natural size.

mermaid-asciicommit 5a9df15
Loading mermaid-ascii…

Loading beautiful-mermaid…

termaid0.9.1
Loading termaid…