ASCII Flow — portable text diagrams

Build diagrams out of monospace characters so they render identically in a code comment, a README, a terminal, a git diff, an email or a chat box — no renderer, no plugin, no image. The whole value is portability + alignment: a diagram that survives copy-paste everywhere and stays lined up.

This skill is grounded in the taxonomy and ~500 real-world examples catalogued at asciidiagrams.github.io (diagrams harvested from Chromium, the Linux kernel, LLVM, TensorFlow, etc.). The references bundle a symbol palette, per-family recipes, and a curated gallery.

When ASCII vs. a real renderer