> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bowerlabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Figures, diagrams, and dropping a file into chat

> Bird now draws publication-grade figures and mermaid diagrams in the conversation, and you can drag or paste a file straight into the chat box.

**Shipped 2026-09-11 · Bird**

Two changes to what a conversation with Bird can carry: what comes out of it,
and what you can put into it.

## Figures and diagrams

Bird can now produce **publication-grade figures** and **mermaid diagrams**
directly in the conversation, rather than describing a chart it cannot draw.

* **Figures** are generated as real image files, so a figure is something you
  can take away rather than a screenshot of a screen.
* **Mermaid diagrams** render from a fenced block, which suits the things that
  are genuinely diagrams: a workflow, a decision tree, a sample-handling chain,
  an experimental design.

Ask in plain language. "Plot these results", "draw the workflow for this
protocol", "diagram how these samples were split".

## Dropping and pasting files

You can now get a file into the chat box three ways, all equivalent:

* **The paperclip button**, which opens a file picker.
* **Drag a file** from your desktop or file manager and drop it on the chat
  box.
* **Paste** a file, which in practice usually means a screenshot you have just
  taken.

Dragging a file used to open it in a new browser tab instead of attaching it,
which is the browser's default for a page that does not handle the drop. The
page handles it now.

Bower accepts documents, images, spreadsheets, PDFs and research code,
including scripts like `.R`, `.Rmd`, `.jl` and `.do` that many tools reject
because the operating system gives them no recognised file type. If a file is
too large or is not a type Bower reads, you get told which file and why, and
the rest of your selection still attaches.

## Also in chat

Generated **R and Python** code now comes through cleanly. Code inside fenced
and inline blocks was being rewritten on its way to the screen, which is what
produced R that arrived on a single line and would not run when pasted into
RStudio.

## Notes

Pasting a **table** copied out of a document pastes it as text, not as an
attachment, because a copied table carries no file. To have Bird read a table,
attach the file itself or a photo of it.

Full detail in
[Figures and diagrams](/ai-and-search/figures-and-diagrams) and
[Bird](/ai-and-search/bird-ai-assistant).