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Architecture diagrams from your actual code.
Hand-drawn architecture diagrams are aspirational fiction. Axiom Refract generates C4 diagrams directly from AST analysis of your codebase — context, container, component, and code levels — so they're accurate because they're computed, not remembered.
Your architecture diagram is lying to you.
If your architecture diagram was drawn by a human, it's wrong. Not because the human is incompetent — because codebases change faster than documentation.
They're aspirational, not actual.
Hand-drawn architecture diagrams reflect how the architect intended the system to work — six months ago, before three emergency features and a framework migration. The diagram on your wiki shows the plan. Axiom Refract shows the reality.
They decay immediately.
The moment a diagram is drawn, it starts becoming wrong. Every merged PR that changes a dependency, adds a service, or removes a module makes the diagram less accurate. Nobody updates the diagram. Everyone references it anyway.
They omit what's inconvenient.
Hand-drawn diagrams show the clean abstractions. They don't show the circular dependency between the auth module and the user service. They don't show the god file that 40% of the codebase imports. They don't show the dead code that nobody removed. Computed diagrams show everything.
They can't be queried.
A PNG on Confluence is a picture. Axiom Refract's diagrams are backed by structured data — dependency graphs, centrality metrics, zone assignments. Click a node, see its blast radius. Ask an AI agent to explain the architecture. The diagram is a view into the data, not the data itself.
Four levels of architectural clarity.
System Context
The highest-altitude view. Your system as a single box, surrounded by the users and external systems it interacts with. This is what you show the board, the investors, the auditors — the answer to “what does this system do and who uses it?”
Container
Zoom in one level. The system breaks into containers — applications, services, databases, message queues. This is your deployment architecture: what runs where, what talks to what, and over which protocols.
Component
Inside each container, the major structural components emerge. Controllers, services, repositories, middleware — the building blocks that make up each deployable unit. This is where architecture meets implementation.
Code
The deepest level. Individual files, classes, and functions with their relationships. This is where Axiom Refract's dependency graph, centrality scoring, and SPOF detection converge into a visual representation of your actual code structure.
Computed means correct.
Always Accurate
Diagrams are computed from AST analysis every time you run a scan. They can't drift because they're regenerated from source.
Multi-Format Export
C4 diagrams export as visual images for presentations, structured JSON for tooling, and Mermaid notation for embedding in documentation.
Zone-Aware
Diagrams respect the zone boundaries Axiom Refract discovers through cluster detection. Architectural boundaries emerge from code structure, not from folder names.
MCP-Queryable
AI agents can request architecture data via MCP and receive structured zone, dependency, and component information — not a screenshot, but data they can reason about.
Get architecture diagrams that match your actual code.
Upload your repository. Axiom Refract parses every file, computes the dependency structure, and generates C4 diagrams at four levels of abstraction — all from the code that's actually running, not the code someone intended to write.