Lucid Release Notes

We’re happy to announce that you can now generate fully editable Lucid shapes from your Mermaid syntax! 🎉

Let’s take a look at how it works ⏬

What’s new?

Copy your syntax and paste it into your Lucid document. The result will be native, editable shapes that you can format and move around freely!

How can I edit my new diagram?

After pasting in your Mermaid syntax, your shapes and diagram will be fully editable!

• Add, move, and edit shapes and lines
• Add and edit colors
• Add and edit text

*Note that any shapes that are not yet supported will appear as static SVGs.

Why did we build this?

Writing diagram syntax in Mermaid is fast, but communicating and iterating with cross-functional stakeholders is always easier visually. This feature helps you bridge the gap between code and visual collaboration!

• Edit visually: Skip the tedious syntax trial-and-error. Generate your base diagram from Mermaid syntax, then use Lucid’s canvas to tweak and format as you’d like.
• Bridge the technical gap: Easily bring your technical documentation into meetings for stakeholders. Your engineering team can continue working quickly in text, while you communicate a clear, beautiful visual that stakeholders can understand and provide feedback on.

Can I create editable shapes from the diagram as code menu?

Can I create editable shapes from the diagram as code menu?

At this time, we do not support creating native Lucid shapes and diagrams from the diagram as code menu in Lucidchart. Instead, the diagram is displayed as an image and must be edited from the syntax menu.

However, we recommend copying your syntax from this menu and pasting it directly onto the canvas as a workaround!

How can I get started?

Try this out today and let us know what you think!

1. Copy your Mermaid markdown syntax from your codebase or repository.
2. Open any Lucid document.
3. Paste it directly onto the canvas (or use the Import > Mermaid menu option).
4. Watch the magic happen, and start collaborating!

Taylor Lykins | Product @ Lucid

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This post details the latest updates across the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, which includes Lucidchart and Lucidspark. The Lucid Suite provides an end-to-end platform for visual collaboration, helping your teams to stay aligned, build, and drive results from start to finish. We've designed this page to be your primary resource for staying informed about all the new product releases, features, and improvements we've made. Subscribe to stay up to date with these releases and share your feedback with our team in the Product Feedback community space.

Lucid AI suggestions

Lucid AI can now review and provide suggestions on how to improve your diagrams. Learn more.

Lucid AI enhancements

Fishbone diagram generation: Users can now leverage Lucid AI to instantly generate Ishikawa (fishbone) diagrams from a text prompt.

Advanced image-to-diagram replication: We’ve upgraded our image import intelligence. Lucid AI now replicates uploaded images and sketches into diagrams with much higher accuracy.

Lucid MCP integration for Slackbot

Streamline your workflow by creating diagrams, and searching, editing, and sharing Lucid documents directly within Slackbot. Learn more.

Convert Claude SVGs to Lucid diagrams

Use Claude and the Lucid MCP server to immediately transform static Claude diagrams into dynamic, editable Lucid diagrams. Learn more.

Send feedback via MCP

Provide feedback to our teams about Lucid’s MCP server in your AI clients. Learn more.

Manage and document folders via MCP

Use the MCP server to create, move, or rename folders, and easily move or rename your documents. Learn more.

Pull and respond to comments via MCP

Read comments and respond to existing threads in Lucid documents in AI client conversations. Learn more.

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The Process Accelerator provides organizations increased governance and standardization in how processes are stored, documented, and published. By using these capabilities, organizations will be able to create a single source of truth, drive compliance and consistency across the business, and easily build and manage reusable assets to speed up process creation and improvement.

Subscribe here to stay up to date with Process Accelerator updates and releases!

Repository description

Users can now add a description for every repository to help teams quickly understand the purpose of and content housed within each.

Repository list view

Users now have the option to toggle from grid view to list view on the repository homepage. Within the list view, users can see the repository name, description, owners, number of documents, and date of last update. This view provides a quick overview of repository content and is especially helpful for users managing multiple repositories.

CSV export

Users can now export repository assets information into a CSV. The export includes information such as repository name, owner, location, document counts, last modified date, approval, version number, change summary, and URL.

Direct publish

The final reviewer in the approval flow can now directly publish the document after approving it, streamlining the overall approval workflow.

Force publish

Repository owners and Process Accelerator managers will be able to force publish a document to a repository in order to prevent stalled approvals if an approver is on leave.

Approval flow messages

Approval flow messages such as the change summary, message to approvers, and approve/deny message are surfaced when a user goes to make edits, streamlining the feedback loop. The approval requests table also now has a dynamic message column that reflects the latest message by status. This visibility keeps all approval flow context in one place, allowing for faster and clearer feedback loops.

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airfocus agent

Enterprise customers with airfocus AI enabled can now access the airfocus agent — a conversational and agentic AI built right into the product. Ask it to analyze feedback, check OKR alignment across teams, summarize initiatives, or search and gather information across any set of items. This is all possible with natural language - making easier than ever for product managers to make better decisions, faster.

Watch this video and refer to this help center article to get a quick overview of what is available in our beta release of the airfocus agent!

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server

Enable airfocus to function as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, allowing external AI agents and copilots to securely access and act on structured airfocus data (e.g. roadmap items, priorities, feedback, objectives). This unlocks advanced AI-driven workflows, integrations, and automation by exposing airfocus workspaces through a standardized protocol. To learn more, visit our help center article.

Docs in airfocus

This is a new lightweight document view that gives you a full-page text editor right inside your workspaces and items. Capture meeting notes, draft strategy, write specs, or keep any free-form context exactly where your roadmap, priorities, and feedback already live — no more switching to a separate tool and losing the thread. Add a Doc view to any workspace or item and start writing. To learn more, visit our help center article.

Insights Agent

This is a built-in agent that works automatically inside your Insights app. As new feedback arrives, the agent reads each item, extracts the discrete insights inside it, and semantically matches them to your existing opportunities — attaching the evidence where it belongs. When no suitable opportunity exists, it creates a new one, so nothing valuable slips through the cracks.

The result is a continuously organized feedback repository that stays current without manual triage, keeping your opportunities grounded in real customer signal. To learn more, visit our help center article.

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We’ve heard to your feedback and today we’re releasing one of the most requested features for the Cloud Accelerator, Version Compare! You can now see exactly what changed in your cloud environment since the last saved state.

What's new

After a sync completes, Version Compare overlays your current cloud model against its previous state and highlights every resource that was added, removed, or edited. You get the full picture without any manual cross-referencing.

How to use it

Open your cloud document and select Compare with Previous Version from the data management panel. The canvas switches into comparison mode, where color-coded highlighting shows what changed at a glance: resources added since the last save, resources removed, and resources still present but with configuration or metadata changes.

Click any highlighted resource to open the contextual panel on the right. If fields changed, it shows a side-by-side breakdown of what they were and what they are now.

Why it matters

For compliance and audit teams, this replaces a manual, error-prone process with a visual record you can share directly from the diagram. Infrastructure that changed between audit periods shows up automatically and you can verify relevant infrastructure hasn’t fallen out of compliance.

For cloud architects and DevOps leads, drift surfaces the moment you sync. A modified security group, a changed S3 bucket config: you see it without digging through the console.

Try it out and share your feedback in this thread!

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Key capabilities

We are thrilled to announce that we have officially launched the Lucid connector for VS Code! By bringing Lucid’s visual power directly into VS Code , you can create diagrams, search, summarize, and edit documents without ever leaving your interface.

• Retrieve documents at AI speed: Locate all documents related to a given topic or keyword.
• Quickly generate diagrams: Generate flowcharts, sequence diagrams, or org charts from your AI conversations.
• Deploy edits to documents: Add, update, or remove shapes from your documents through simple chat commands.
• Generate document summaries: Ask questions about your existing Lucid documents to get instant summaries or action items.
• Effortlessly share with stakeholders: Generate view-only links or invite collaborators to your document directly from your interface.

Use Case: The Sprint Reality Check

The Lucid connector easily integrates into your workflows to simplify your work. For instance, imagine you’re reviewing a complex pull request and trying to remember how the legacy authentication service actually talks to the new API. Instead of hunting through a cluttered workspace to find the right flowchart, you can simply ask:

"Find the 'System Architecture 2026' document in Lucid and summarize the data flow between the auth service and the database."

The LLM will scan your Lucid documents and provide a concise summary of the logic. If you realize the architecture needs to change based on your new code, you can even prompt:

"Update the 'System Architecture' document based on this code.”

Just like that, your documentation stays as agile as your code.This integration transforms your diagrams from static assets into a foundational, interactive layer of your AI-driven development workflow.

For more information and set up instructions, check out this Help Center article.

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We are excited to announce more tools and capabilities to Lucid's MCP server. With these new additions, you can now manage your folder structures, document organization, comments, and sending product feedback completely through natural language commands in your connected AI tools.

What’s New

Document & folder organization

Organize your Lucid workspace with the assistance of AI clients. With these new capabilities, you can now move, create, and rename folders completely through AI conversation, as well as move and rename documents to ensure your files are in the right location.

Example prompt: “In Lucid, create a new folder called 'Q3 Architecture', then find my 'API Flowchart' document, rename it to 'V2 API Flowchart', and move it into that new folder.”

Streamlined collaboration & comment management

Keep the project moving without leaving your IDE or chat client. You can instantly pull comment threads or reply to existing threads directly through the MCP interface.

Example prompt: “Pull the active comment threads from my Product Strategy board in Lucid,” or “Respond to Jill's comment on the flowchart saying the updated schema is ready for review.”

Send feedback on the MCP server

Notice a capability or shortcut you wish you had while working with Lucid’s MCP server? You can now send feature requests straight to the Lucid MCP team through your AI chat!.

Example prompt: “Submit feedback to the Lucid team requesting a dynamic table generation feature for the MCP server.”

Learn more

To see a full breakdown of our available tools and instructions on how to connect to the Lucid MCP Server, visit this Integrate Lucid with AI tools using the Lucid MCP server article.

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We are officially launching the Lucid MCP Integration for Slackbot, an integration that allows users to create diagrams, search, edit, and share Lucid documents directly within the Slack interface. This integration seamlessly brings the visual power of Lucid directly into Slackbot so users can streamline work and stay in the flow.

The Lucid MCP integration for Slackbot has been designed to further integrate Lucid’s capabilities into an agentic experience directly into your team’s primary communication hub. By bridging the gap between Slack conversations and Lucid capabilities, this integration eliminates context-switching and ensures project visuals remain at the forefront of every discussion.

The MCP integration allows users to manage their entire visual workspace through natural language commands, offering a suite of streamlined capabilities:

• Locate documents by keyword and extract action items or content summaries instantly.
• Generate diagrams, mind maps, process maps, user flows, org charts, and more, all within the Slackbot interface.
• Modify shapes, styles, and content within documents.
• Manage collaborator permissions, share links, and export documents as PNGs without leaving the chat.

By deep-linking Lucid’s capabilities into Slackbot, we are helping your teams maintain momentum and providing the visual context necessary to accelerate complex projects.

Learn more.

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Lucid AI can edit any diagram

Lucid AI can now edit diagrams created with AI and those that were created manually. This new enhancement provides greater power to interact with AI on your canvas!

Enhanced AI-powered conditional formatting

Use Lucid AI to generate and edit advanced rules with multi-step logic. This update expands our existing AI capabilities to include AND/OR conditions and shape data calculations, all through natural language prompts. Learn more.

Find features with Lucid AI

Use Lucid AI to search for any tool in the canvas. Learn more.

Additional Lucid AI enhancements

When generating a board with Lucid AI, you can now add the following items to your board and edit with Lucid AI:

• Dynamic Tables
• Lucid Cards
• Visual Activities
• Timelines

Export and extract images with the MCP server

The Lucid MCP server has two new tools that empower your AI clients to instantly export high-resolution PNGs and extract images directly from your documents. Learn more.

Expanded Mermaid.js support

We now support new diagram types like Ishikawa (fishbone), radar charts, and nested treemaps to help you communicate complex data with ease. This update also significantly boosts reliability and customization, introducing animated flowchart edges and precise ELK layout controls. Learn more.

Copy and share document contents as an image

Select content on the board to create an image that can be shared via external tools. Learn more.

Default auto growing text boxes

When adding text in Lucidchart, the default text box will grow with text sizing. Learn more.

Zoom and pan from print window

Zoom or pan the view from the print window when printing or exporting a document. Learn more.

More options in comment panel

The three-dot button now allows you to delete or copy a link to a comment, in addition to the existing "resolve" option, increasing flexibility when determining how to handle comments. Learn more.

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The Cloud Accelerator helps organizations understand and plan future changes to their cloud infrastructure. Organizations use the Cloud Accelerator to create accurate, customizable cloud documentation and diagrams, streamlining the process with automated generation, reusable components, and flexible, modifiable visuals. These capabilities improve communication, ensure the right data is prioritized, and accelerate decision-making to boost project velocity.

Subscribe here to stay up to date with Cloud Accelerator updates and releases!

Lucid announced on April 3, 2025 that Lucidscale will transition to be a part of the Cloud Accelerator. Current Lucidscale customers will be transitioned to the Cloud Accelerator over time. See here for more information.

Cloud frames

Cloud frames are Smart Containers that live on the Lucidchart canvas and automatically generate visualizations from imported cloud data using rule-based viz, which maintains structure, filters, and layout rules to keep diagrams accurate and data-backed in a unified workflow that combines free-form documentation with live-synced infrastructure. Learn more.

Edit document data filter

Users can now refine, adjust, and update data filters directly within an existing Lucidscale document—no re-importing required.

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The Process Accelerator provides organizations increased governance and standardization in how processes are stored, documented, and published. By using these capabilities, organizations will be able to create a single source of truth, drive compliance and consistency across the business, and easily build and manage reusable assets to speed up process creation and improvement.

Subscribe here to stay up to date with Process Accelerator updates and releases!

Sequential approval flows

Repository owners can choose to enable a bottom-up sequential approval flow (process owner, sub-folder owner, folder owner, repository owner) to automate handoffs and ensure the right stakeholders review content in a specific order. Learn more.

Expand document assets

Users can now expand and collapse document assets directly on the canvas, allowing for navigation between documents without losing the current context. Learn more.

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airfocus, now part of Lucid, is a product management platform designed to unite teams to build great products with confidence. It serves as a single source of truth for product work, offering strategic roadmapping and advanced prioritization tools. The platform centralizes customer feedback for actionable insights, links OKRs to execution, and enables capacity planning. Its modular design supports customizable workflows, empowering product teams to build more effectively, no matter their approach.

Subscribe here to stay up to date with airfocus updates and releases! And if you’d like to see (and influence) the airfocus roadmap, check out the airfocus Portal.

Custom item links types

Define your own link types in team settings to map relationships between items the way your team thinks about them—beyond the defaults like Blocks, Duplicates, and Relates to.

This is especially helpful for users who have custom link types in their Jira instance—they can now create those same link types on the airfocus side rather than mapping to the default three link types. To learn more about creating custom item links, visit our Help Center article.

Jira Fix Version and Milestone Syncing

Map the airfocus Milestone field to Jira Fix Versions. We’ve introduced two new mapping options to support different workflows:

• Fix Version (most recent) → Milestone (single select): A one-way mapping that ensures you don’t overwrite external data with incomplete information
• Fix Version ↔ Milestone (multi-select): A full two-way mapping for bidirectional synchronization

This update supports auto-mapping, manual mapping, and the ability to auto-create field options in airfocus (auto-create is not supported in Jira). To learn more about these updates to the Jira integration, visit our Help Center article.

Edit Lucid documents directly in airfocus

Edit Lucid documents directly in airfocus. Simply click the Select from Lucid option when embedding a Lucid view, and you will be able to select an existing document or create a new one. When prompted, give the document edit permissions, add it as a view, and you will be taken to an embedded Lucid editor experience. To learn more about embedding Lucid documents in airfocus, visit our Help Center article.

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We are thrilled to share a new tool for our MCP server & Claude, the ability to convert Claude-generated diagrams directly into Lucid documents!

Overview

Claude allows teams to brainstorm complex systems through inline SVG diagrams, but these visuals were previously limited to static code or screenshots. With this latest update you can now ask Claude to take those generated visuals and instantly transform them into interactive, and editable Lucid diagrams. This feature ensures that your visual assets remain as agile as your text prompts. You focus on the architecture, let Claude and Lucid handle the drawing.

How it works

After creating a diagram with Claude simply prompt: "Convert this generated diagram into a Lucid document." Claude will securely interface with Lucid to create the diagram so you can further customize and edit your diagram.

Claude generated diagram Converted Lucid diagram

Learn More

Check out our Help Center Article for more information on the Lucid & Claude MCP connec

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The Insights agent processes new feedback items as they arrive. It creates insights: linking customer feedback to relevant product opportunities or ideas in your connected workspaces.

Prerequisites

Before setting up the Insights agent, make sure:

• airfocus AI is enabled for your team. An admin can turn this on in Team Settings > Features.
• The Insights app is installed on your workspace(s).
• You have full permissions on the feedback workspace. Members without full permissions can see the agent status but not edit the configuration.

Set up the Insights agent

The Insights agent is configured in the Insights app on your workspace.

To set up the Insights agent:

1. Open your Feedback workspace in airfocus.
2. In the action bar at the top of the workspace, click the Insights agent button.
3. In the Insights agent dialog, configure the automation and settings:
   • Under Automation, turn on Create and link insights to automatically process feedback items when they are created.
   • Optionally, add a Custom prompt to give the agent specific instructions (see Customize with a custom prompt below).
4. Click Save.

Understand the agent status indicator

After setup, the Insights agent button in the workspace action bar reflects the current state of the agent:

State What it means Active (sparkle, full color) Automation is on. The agent processes new feedback items automatically. Inactive (sparkle, dimmed) The agent is configured but automation is turned off. Working… (animated gradient) The agent is currently processing one or more feedback items.

Click the button at any time to see the current status, toggle automation on or off, or open agent settings.

What the Insights agent does

When the Insights agent runs on a feedback item, it follows these steps:

1. Reads the feedback item: the full title and description.
2. Checks if the feedback is actionable: if there's no usable content (e.g., the description is empty, test text, or only internal notes), the agent posts a comment explaining why it stopped and skips insight creation.
3. Extracts insights: each insight represents a single signal: a pain point, a feature request, a use case, or a competitive signal.
4. Searches for matching opportunities in two ways:
   • It searches similar feedback items already linked to opportunities (human-validated references).
   • It searches your connected opportunity workspace using semantic similarity.
5. Links high-confidence matches: when both searches agree, or one gives a clear, specific match, the agent links the feedback item to the matched opportunity.
6. Posts a reasoning comment: the agent posts a comment summarizing what it extracted and why each insight was linked or left unmatched.

Manually trigger the Insights agent

You can also run the Insights agent on a specific feedback item without waiting for it to trigger automatically.

To manually trigger the agent:

1. Open a feedback item in your Feedback workspace.
2. In the Insights panel on the item, click Find matches.
3. The agent runs immediately. The sparkle icon animates while it works.
4. When complete, the agent posts a reasoning comment and any new insight links appear in the Insights panel.

Customize with a custom prompt

You can add instructions to guide the agent's behavior such as context regarding your product domain, naming conventions, or how to handle edge cases. These instructions will be included each time the agent runs.

To add or edit a custom prompt:

1. Click the Insights agent button in the action bar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Under Settings, click Add prompt (or Edit prompt if one already exists).
4. Enter your instructions.
5. Click Save to apply.

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Lucid AI can edit any diagram

Lucid AI can now edit diagrams created with AI and those that were created manually. This new enhancement provides greater power to interact with AI on your canvas!

Enhanced AI-powered conditional formatting

Use Lucid AI to generate and edit advanced rules with multi-step logic. This update expands our existing AI capabilities to include AND/OR conditions and shape data calculations, all through natural language prompts. Learn more.

Find features with Lucid AI

Use Lucid AI to search for any tool in the canvas. Learn more.

Additional Lucid AI enhancements

When generating a board with Lucid AI, you can now add the following items to your board and edit with Lucid AI:

• Dynamic Tables
• Lucid Cards
• Visual Activities
• Timelines

Export and extract images with the MCP server

The Lucid MCP server has two new tools that empower your AI clients to instantly export high-resolution PNGs and extract images directly from your documents. Learn more.

Expanded Mermaid.js support

We now support new diagram types like Ishikawa (fishbone), radar charts, and nested treemaps to help you communicate complex data with ease. This update also significantly boosts reliability and customization, introducing animated flowchart edges and precise ELK layout controls. Learn more.

Copy and share document contents as an image

Select content on the board to create an image that can be shared via external tools. Learn more.

Default auto growing text boxes

When adding text in Lucidchart, the default text box will grow with text sizing. Learn more.

Zoom and pan from print window

Zoom or pan the view from the print window when printing or exporting a document. Learn more.

More options in comment panel

The three-dot button now allows you to delete or copy a link to a comment, in addition to the existing "resolve" option, increasing flexibility when determining how to handle comments. Learn more.

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