From 65f695202ee9df5f51a4fb723b5998c5d25214a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prad Nukala <prad@sonr.io>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:23:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs(docs): replace Mermaid diagram with SVG image for
 dependency spine

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 README.md | 29 +++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -321,27 +321,8 @@
   </tbody>
 </table>
 
-## Dependency Spine (Mermaid)
- 
-```mermaid
-graph LR
-  T1["1 Hash"] --> T2["2 Prefix Sum"]
-  T3["3 Two Pointers"] --> T4["4 Sliding Window"]
-  T4 --> T10["10 Matrix Index Math"]
-  T5["5 Binary Search"] --> T13["13 BST"]
-  T6["6 Stack"] --> T7["7 Monotonic Stack"]
-  T8["8 Linked List"] --> T9["9 Hybrid"]
-  T1 --> T9
-  T11["11 Tree DFS"] --> T13
-  T11 --> T14["14 Heap"]
-  T11 --> T15["15 Trie"]
-  T11 --> T16["16 Graph DFS"]
-  T12["12 Tree BFS"] --> T17["17 Graph BFS"]
-  T16 --> T18["18 Topological Sort"]
-  T16 --> T19["19 Union-Find"]
-  T18 --> T20["20 Backtracking"]
-  T20 --> T21["21 DP 1-D"]
-  T21 --> T22["22 DP Multi-D"]
-  T21 --> T23["23 Greedy"]
-  T23 --> T24["24 Intervals"]
-```
+## Dependency Spine
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img alt="Dependency graph of the 24 topics across five phases, showing which topics build on which" src=".github/assets/dependency-spine.svg" />
+</p>