Sigil

Reference

One URL per card

Every card is a plain image URL. Drop it in a Markdown image tag and GitHub renders it. No build step, no token, no configuration.

Shape

https://sigil.dev/c/<card>/<username>?theme=<theme>&animate=<0|1>

![Sigil overview](https://sigil.dev/c/overview/octocat?theme=obsidian&animate=1)
card
one of 9 card kinds
theme
obsidian, paper, verdigris, monolith, tidepool, sandstone
animate
1 for living cards, 0 for still

The nine cards

Public JSON API

GET /api/v1/users/:username   → the same stats the cards draw
GET /api/v1/themes            → every built-in theme

Static backups

The Sigil GitHub Action fetches your pack once a day and commits the SVGs into your own repository, so your README keeps rendering even if this service disappears.

- uses: sigil/action@v1
  with:
    username: octocat
    theme: obsidian
    out: ./sigil