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How to get a timeline or before-and-after picture in a reply with Prismantis

Use figure blocks to draw position-based pictures such as timelines, screen layouts and before-and-after comparisons.

Who it is forA developer or team lead who needs to explain a race condition, a rollout timeline or a layout change in a Claude Code session.

The problemWords alone make it hard to show when things happen relative to each other, such as a timeout racing a retry.

The outcomeClaude builds a figure in the theme colors that shows the timing or layout as written, and the source can be copied.

What you need first

  • Claude Code version 2.1.287 or later
  • A terminal that can show colors; kitty or Ghostty if you want LaTeX math drawn as images
  • RaTeX's ratex-render binary, only if you want LaTeX math

Steps

  1. Install Prismantis and run /prismantis setup to choose a theme.
  2. Ask Claude to explain the sequence as a figure, for example: show the timeout and retry timing as a figure.
  3. Check that the figure draws with its colored roles, such as warn for a failure and ok for a healthy step.
  4. If the block shows as code, read the dim line above it, which names the glyph or markup problem to fix.
  5. Use ⧉ source to copy the block as Claude wrote it, or ⧉ art to copy the drawn text.

Prompt for your agent

With the NahumLitvin/prismantis plugin active in Claude Code, ask Claude to show <scenario> as a figure block. Expected output: a text picture drawn in theme colors with no raw markup. Verify that a role such as warn or ok colors the right run and that the copy source button returns the markdown block.

Caveat. Figure frames are not checked, so a box that is slightly off still draws as Claude typed it, and the reply may need a second pass to align it.

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