Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs

kept by eddie feb 16

Myflames converts MySQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE JSON into interactive flamegraph SVGs and a compact text digest that reduces LLM input tokens by 75% for query diagnosis.

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