## [Excalidraw AI Agent for Confluence (Chat Whiteboard)](/blog/excalidraw-ai-agent-confluence.md)

October 10, 2026 ·

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Confluence holds your team's diagrams in two worlds, and the two don't talk to each other.

Text-defined diagrams — Mermaid and friends — are what AI speaks natively. They're source code, so a chat agent can read them, write them, and revise them. We shipped exactly that last week: [an AI agent for Mermaid in Confluence](/blog/mermaid-ai-agent-confluence.md).

Whiteboards are the other world. Freeform shapes, hand-drawn lines, arrows you drag where they need to go — the format that's actually intuitive to put in front of people. Every team has one: the architecture board on the team page, the incident flow everyone references, the onboarding map. And AI couldn't touch any of it. Ask a chat agent for a change to a whiteboard and you'd get a text *description* of a change, and someone still had to open the canvas and do it by hand.

That gap is why whiteboards go stale. Editing shapes one drag at a time is slow enough that nobody does it, and AI — the thing that was supposed to make maintenance cheap — had no way in.

The AI agent in [Excalidraw Plus Whiteboards & AI Agent for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1237651/excalidraw-plus-whiteboards-for-confluence) closes the gap: the whiteboard stays what it always was — visual, intuitive, for people — but now you can operate it in plain language, from Confluence chat.

**Tags:**

* [confluence](/blog/tags/confluence.md)
* [excalidraw](/blog/tags/excalidraw.md)
* [whiteboard](/blog/tags/whiteboard.md)
* [diagrams](/blog/tags/diagrams.md)
* [ai](/blog/tags/ai.md)
* [agent](/blog/tags/agent.md)

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