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by _ben_ 58 days ago
I’m building Zindex [1], which is aimed at this exact “visual representation of executable workflows” layer.

What I'm solving for is AI-generated diagrams are usually one-shot: Mermaid/SVG/PNG gets emitted, but there’s no durable diagram state to update, validate, diff, or reuse.

Zindex makes the diagram itself structured state. Agents use a Diagram Scene Protocol (DSP) to patch nodes, edges, groups, relationships, constraints, and revisions; Zindex handles validation, layout, rendering, versioning, and storage.

So for Temporal/DBOS/Restate/Cloudflare Workflows, I’d imagine Zindex sitting beside the durable execution engine: the engine remains the source of truth for execution, while Zindex maintains the persistent, inspectable visual model derived from code or execution history.

[1] https://zindex.ai/