Everything you need to visualize, document, and maintain your software architecture
Get a living C4 model out of the code you already have, then explore it from the big picture down to a single class.
Beautiful diagrams at every level
Create stunning, interactive architecture diagrams using the industry-standard C4 model. Navigate seamlessly from high-level system context down to code-level details.
Let AI document your architecture
Connect your repository and let our AI analyze your codebase to automatically discover and document architectural elements, relationships, and patterns.
Define your architecture in YAML
Declare your entire C4 architecture in a single archyl.yaml file. Check it into your repository, sync it from CI/CD pipelines, and keep diagrams in sync with your codebase — fully version-controlled and declarative.
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Visualize and brainstorm
Create freeform whiteboards to sketch architecture ideas, brainstorm with your team, and visualize complex systems before formalizing them in your documentation.
Visualize interactions
Document how data and users flow through your system. Create step-by-step flow diagrams that show exactly how different parts of your architecture interact.
Keep decisions, docs and contracts next to the elements they describe, and change the model the way you change code.
Track every decision
Document architectural decisions in context. Link ADRs directly to the components they affect and maintain a complete history of your architecture's evolution.
Pull requests for your architecture
Propose, review, and merge architecture changes just like code. With requests-only mode, every C4 model modification must go through a structured review process before being applied.
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Everything in one place
Write and manage Markdown documentation directly linked to your architecture. Import existing docs from your repository and keep everything synchronized.
Define and visualize your API surface
Import and visualize your API specifications alongside your architecture. Support for OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL schemas, Protocol Buffer definitions, and AsyncAPI specs — all linked to your C4 model elements. Visualize event channels to map your event-driven communication flows.
Complete audit trail
Track every change made to your architecture documentation. See who changed what and when with a complete activity log.
Know when the documentation drifts, who owns what, and how the architecture moves release after release.
AI-powered analysis
Get intelligent insights about your architecture. Identify potential issues like single points of failure, high coupling, circular dependencies, and security concerns.
Is your documentation telling the truth?
Measure how accurately your C4 model reflects your actual codebase with a single 0-100% health score. The lightweight analysis checks file paths, directory structure, and element existence in seconds — no AI, fully deterministic. Track trends over time, enforce thresholds in CI with the official GitHub Action, and get Slack alerts when drift accelerates.
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Track every deployment and measure engineering performance
Monitor releases across your entire architecture. Ingest deployment events from GitHub Actions, webhooks, or the REST API, and visualize your release history linked to C4 systems and containers. Built-in DORA metrics give you real-time insight into Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Restore — at the project and organization level.
Visualize your entire tech landscape
Track every language, framework, database, and tool across your architecture. Technologies are automatically organized into an interactive radar with adoption rings and quadrants, giving you a bird's-eye view of your tech stack and deep links back to every element that uses them.
Know who owns what
Visualize team and user ownership across your entire architecture. Interactive bubbles sized by responsibility, dependency lines between owners, and drill-down detail views help you understand accountability and cross-team coupling at a glance.
Give coding agents the architecture as context, make them declare their work, and let them act on the model under guardrails.
Declare the work, then touch the code
Archyl sits above the coding agents you already run. Every work session opens with your architecture, crosses a preflight gate, and gives context back before it closes.
Architecture at your fingertips
Connect Archyl to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool. Discuss your architecture, explore documentation, and take actions through natural conversation.
Architecture governance for AI agents
Define conformance rules that AI coding agents must respect. Browse a catalog of 169 pre-built guardrails across 23 technologies, enforce layer boundaries and naming conventions, and give agents full architectural context via MCP — so they write code that belongs, not just code that works.
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Autonomous agents that work while you sleep
Dispatch AI agents directly from Archyl. Give them a task, connect them to your tools via MCP connectors (GitHub, Linear, Slack, or any MCP server), set a cron schedule, and let them work autonomously on your codebase with full architectural context — cloning, execution, and monitoring handled for you.
Architecture, in your chat
Mention @Archyl in Slack or Microsoft Teams to ask about your C4 model, ADRs, dependencies and ownership. With an API key, the bot uses live MCP tools — and can take action like creating ADRs — right from the channel.
Connect your Git providers and the tools that already watch production, and see it all on the diagram.
Connect your favorite tools
Extend your architecture dashboard with marketplace integrations. Connect products like SonarQube, Datadog, and more to surface real-time metrics, security insights, and operational data directly alongside your C4 model.
Connect your repositories
Seamlessly connect to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and self-hosted Git providers. Import repositories, sync documentation, and keep everything up to date.
Join organizations using archyl to document their software architecture.
Interactive C4 diagrams, AI-powered architecture discovery, Architecture as Code DSL, change requests, MCP server, releases, technology radar, and more.
Everything you need to visualize, document, and maintain your software architecture
Connect your repository and let our AI analyze your codebase to automatically discover and document architectural elements, relationships, and patterns.
Declare your entire C4 architecture in a single archyl.yaml file. Check it into your repository, sync it from CI/CD pipelines, and keep diagrams in sync with your codebase — fully version-controlled and declarative.
CI/CD sync via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or REST API
Export any project to archyl.yaml
Technologies, ADRs, releases, and events in one file
Measure how accurately your C4 model reflects your actual codebase with a single 0-100% health score. The lightweight analysis checks file paths, directory structure, and element existence in seconds — no AI, fully deterministic. Track trends over time, enforce thresholds in CI with the official GitHub Action, and get Slack alerts when drift accelerates.
0-100% accuracy score computed in seconds (no AI, no file content fetched)
Validates systems, containers, components, code elements, and relationships
File path existence check — verifies documented code elements still exist
Fuzzy name matching — FrontendWebApp matches frontend/ directory
Official GitHub Action with configurable quality gate threshold
MCP tools: compute, query, and trend drift scores from AI agents
Webhook events: drift.score_computed and drift.score_degraded alerts
Document architectural decisions in context. Link ADRs directly to the components they affect and maintain a complete history of your architecture's evolution.
Write and manage Markdown documentation directly linked to your architecture. Import existing docs from your repository and keep everything synchronized.
Import and visualize your API specifications alongside your architecture. Support for OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL schemas, Protocol Buffer definitions, and AsyncAPI specs — all linked to your C4 model elements. Visualize event channels to map your event-driven communication flows.
Document how data and users flow through your system. Create step-by-step flow diagrams that show exactly how different parts of your architecture interact.
Propose, review, and merge architecture changes just like code. With requests-only mode, every C4 model modification must go through a structured review process before being applied.