The goal is not just to draw a picture. The goal is to create a persistent, editable, inspectable artifact that can explain a system, link back to source files, evolve over time, and help the agent reason about future changes. In Spectrion, a diagram is not the final product. It is the visual layer of a deeper artifact model. From Images to Artifacts A regular generated image answers one question: What does this look like? A Spectrion diagram should answer more: What is this component? Where does it live in the codebase? How does execution pass through it? What changed between versions? How can the agent use this map to make the next change safely? That is why Spectrion stores diagrams as artifacts with source, rendered output, metadata, and revision history. Diagram Artifacts The first layer is the DiagramArtifact .…