[maria-rcks]

Mermaid diagrams in chat, file previews, plans, and PR descriptions rendered with mermaid.js. It is a 1.6 MB renderer that draws diagrams one at a time through a serial queue and re-renders every diagram on a theme change.

This swaps it for pele, a zero-dependency Mermaid renderer:

• MermaidDiagram loads pele/lazy, which fetches one chunk per diagram type, then calls mount() on the diagram's container. autoDirection: false keeps each diagram in the direction it was written, so a wide flowchart LR scales down to fit the column like before instead of turning vertical.
• Colors come from --pele-* variables mapped to the app theme tokens in index.css. A theme change recolors diagrams with no re-render. The expand-to-image path copies the resolved values onto the standalone SVG.
• $$...$$ labels are typeset with the KaTeX the chat already uses for math, through pele's math resolver. KaTeX loads only for diagrams that contain $$. Its MathML passes the same KaTeX tag and attribute allowlist that fix(web): show math labels in Mermaid diagrams #16198 added.
• Links and images are off, and the SVG still passes through DOMPurify before insertion.
• Error UI, retry for a failed chunk load, show-code toggle, find-in-page, and expand are unchanged.

Benchmark

Production builds of main (2893437f26) and this branch, served side by side on one machine. Real app path: a project file with 14 diagrams (flowchart, 40-node flowchart, sequence, class, state, ER, gantt, pie, mindmap, git graph, journey, timeline, quadrant, XY) opened in the file preview, which renders through ChatMarkdown like chat messages. Headless Chromium at 1280x800, 10 interleaved rounds per side. Each round reloads the page, switches to dark and back, then shows code and the diagram again 5 times. Theme switches go through the app's appearance setting. Bundle numbers come from the same builds.

	main (mermaid 11.17)	this PR (pele 1.8)	change
Reload until all 14 diagrams are drawn, median	1574 ms	755 ms	-52%
Reload until the first diagram is drawn, median	944 ms	755 ms	-20%
Time from first to last diagram drawn, median	628 ms	0 ms (same frame)
First switch to dark mode	685 ms re-rendering, 484 ms long tasks	0 diagram DOM changes, 26 ms long tasks
JS fetched to draw the first flowchart, gzip	201 KB (27 chunks)	60 KB (13 chunks)	-70%
Total web app JS, gzip	7.18 MB	6.60 MB	-0.58 MB
Show code, then show diagram again, until the click's task ends, median of 50	13.4 ms	13.6 ms	+0.2 ms

Limits: Mermaid caches each diagram per theme, so only its first switch to a theme pays the 685 ms. Later switches cost about 80 ms. After "Show code", Mermaid reuses that cache and puts the SVG in the page after 4.8 ms, while pele lays the diagram out again and takes 10.8 ms. Both finish the click's task at about the same time. The 26 ms of long tasks on pele's dark switch are the app restyling itself; no diagram changes.

Before / after

Wide flowchart LR in the file preview. Both keep it left to right and scale it to the column.

Sequence diagram, light theme.

Pie and mindmap, dark theme.

Math labels from #16198's example, light and dark. Main renders these with Mermaid's KaTeX.

Syntax error, unknown diagram type, and a diagram with a javascript: click link, which renders without a link.

Light to dark to light, main then this PR. Mermaid's dark renders were already cached in this clip, so it shows the cached swap, not the 685 ms first render.

Behavior changes

• MermaidDiagram.browser.test.tsx is removed. It tested the exported Mermaid sanitizer, which no longer exists.
• Mermaid theme / themeVariables directives are ignored. Diagrams always follow the app theme.
• Pele uses its own layout, so node positions differ from Mermaid's.

pele@1.8.0 is added to minimumReleaseAgeExclude because it was released on 2026-10-20 and adds the math option.

Web and desktop are covered. Mobile does not render Mermaid.

Verification

• Typecheck, lint, and fmt for apps/web, plus ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx, MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx, and markdown-clipboard.test.ts (207 passed), on a Blacksmith testbox.
• In a production build: all 14 diagram types render in light and dark, theme switches recolor in place, math labels typeset in light, dark, and the expanded image, copying a diagram copies its Mermaid source, the error states show source and message, and expand opens a themed image.
• Pele 1.8 renders the 15 benchmark diagrams byte-identical to 1.6, so the screenshots above still match.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This replaces the shared production Mermaid rendering path with Pele, changing diagram layout, theming, directive handling, sanitization, lazy loading, math labels, and expanded-image generation across existing user-facing views. The scope and visible behavior change are substantial enough to warrant human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	4.9 KiB	−30 B (−0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−30 B (−2.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.8 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 7e289ae · PR result: 27aeb7d · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

The web app replaces Mermaid with Pele to render diagrams. The component loads Pele’s core and diagram-type chunks, sanitizes rendered SVG, reports load and render errors, and creates expanded images from rendered diagrams. Pele theme variables map to the app’s semantic color tokens.

Changes: Diagram rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pele loading and theme integration apps/web/package.json, pnpm-workspace.yaml, apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css	The app replaces the mermaid dependency with pele. The component loads Pele’s core and detected diagram-type chunks. The caller no longer passes a theme prop, and CSS defines Pele theme variables.
SVG sanitization and renderer mounting apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.browser.test.tsx	The component replaces the exported Mermaid sanitizer with internal SVG sanitizers and mounts Pele with links, images, and zoom disabled. The deleted browser tests covered SVG sanitization and MathML handling.
Render errors and diagram expansion apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx	The component displays load and render errors, retries failed loads by clearing cached failures, and expands a cloned SVG with inherited Pele color variables.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatMarkdown
  participant MermaidDiagram
  participant Pele
  participant ExpandedImage
  ChatMarkdown->>MermaidDiagram: source and expand callback
  MermaidDiagram->>Pele: load core and detected diagram chunk
  Pele-->>MermaidDiagram: mounted SVG
  MermaidDiagram->>MermaidDiagram: sanitize rendered SVG
  MermaidDiagram->>ExpandedImage: clone SVG and create image URL

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Suggested reviewers: nikitamgrimm, noojuno

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 27aeb

Diagrams now render with Pele instead of Mermaid. Pele drops remote url() styling values from diagram source before they reach the page, and style blocks are stripped. No concrete defect remains open, so the change is ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 27aeb

The replacement changes security-sensitive rendering behavior, but the inspected implementation sanitizes generated SVG before insertion and restricts active content. No new exploitable path was established. Browser-level behavior and coverage of every renderer output path remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An attacker able to supply diagram-bearing content that another user views can reach this browser rendering boundary. A boundary failure could therefore affect the viewing user's application context. The inspected path does not establish backend privilege gain, cross-tenant access, or propagation beyond affected viewers.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supplied remote-CSS disclosure candidate remains deferred, not verified. Compared with base, head removes CSS URL rewriting while leaving style attributes outside its explicit forbid list. Counterevidence is substantial: the inspected Pele CSS helper permits selected properties and rejects values containing URL functions, expression functions, javascript schemes, CSS escapes, imports, and image-set. This narrows the candidate but is not exhaustive proof for every emitted style path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The actual Pele lazy entrypoint exports the inspected mount implementation. Its SVG insertion helper calls replaceChildren with the sanitizer's returned node, so sanitization completes before that SVG is connected. Its error display uses textContent. This resolves the specific insertion-order uncertainty for the inspected 1.8.0 mount path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Successful mounts are owned by a component-local container and destroyed on effect cleanup. The inspected dependency disconnects resize observation, disables refresh after destruction, and removes pending font-refresh dispatch ownership. Failed core or type loads can clear their cached failure for retry. These controls support ordinary replacement, unmount, and concurrent-instance containment; exceptional partial-initialization behavior was not runtime-verified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Add replacement integration contracts for remote-resource rejection, sanitization before connection, MathML namespace restrictions, and teardown across source changes and failures. These would make the security guarantees explicit when the renderer dependency changes, rather than relying solely on its current implementation.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx: 1

43-56: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a browser test at the Pele SVG sanitization boundary.

ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx mocks MermaidDiagram, and the surviving security tests cover Markdown and generic HTML only. They do not execute load.pele.mount(..., { sanitize: sanitizeDiagramSvg }). Add a focused browser test that mounts the real component with an untrusted Pele-rendered SVG and asserts that scripts, event handlers, navigation/resource attributes, and any supported HTML-label content are removed. Do not restore the obsolete MathML assertions.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx around lines
43 - 56:
Add a focused browser test that mounts the real MermaidDiagram component and
exercises load.pele.mount with sanitizeDiagramSvg on an untrusted SVG. Assert
that scripts, event handlers, navigation and resource attributes, and supported
HTML-label content are removed; do not restore obsolete MathML assertions.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx:
- Around line 43-56: Add a focused browser test that mounts the real
MermaidDiagram component and exercises load.pele.mount with sanitizeDiagramSvg
on an untrusted SVG. Assert that scripts, event handlers, navigation and
resource attributes, and supported HTML-label content are removed; do not
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[TheBit]

Hey @maria-rcks, are there any plans for Mermaid on mobile? Right now Android/iOS show raw code, while desktop renders the diagrams.

[gsimone]

#20995