Generating Architecture, Process & ER Diagrams Automatically Using Copilot Studio AI Agent

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Hello Community,

I’m working on an AI Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio to automatically generate diagrams from an Improvised BRD (Word) and a Schema file (Excel) added in the Knowledge tab.

Requirement

The agent should generate diagrams such as:

ER Diagram
Use Case Diagram
(and other solution diagrams aligned with BRD & schema)

What I’ve Tried

Copilot Studio agent + Power Automate
Generating Mermaid code
Rendering diagrams using Kroki (mermaid/svg)

Challenges

Only Mermaid code is generated
Frequent rendering/syntax errors
No native way to create or store visual diagram files (SVG/PNG/Visio)

Questions

Is there any recommended approach in Copilot Studio to generate actual diagram files instead of only Mermaid code?
Has anyone successfully implemented diagram generation using a Copilot Studio agent (from BRD / Schema)?
Are there better alternatives than Mermaid + Kroki for this use case?
What is the best-practice way to keep diagrams in sync with BRD and schema updates?

Any guidance or real-world examples would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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(Just brainstorming here...)

Have you considered generating the Mermaid Code and then posting it to a Service that renders that into an SVG or PNG and then trying to display that?

Alternatively, with https://mermaid.live/edit -- the diagram is encoded into the URL.
(https://play.d2lang.com/ does something similar, and they have an Export feature.)

Having said that... I believe that you can't inline an image -- the chat is text only.
One workaround for showing an image is to make an Adaptive Card and display that.

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It sounds like you have tried the service rendering approach -- I wasn't aware of Kroki until now.

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