Connect an AI assistant

Card-a-mon can be connected to an AI assistant such as Claude. Once it is, you can ask the assistant, in plain words, to work on your card games: it reads your projects and changes them the way you would in the editor.

Why you might want to

The editor is good at placing things on a card. It is slow at the parts of making a game that are really writing: a deck of 120 cards is 120 names, 120 rules texts and 120 pictures to find. That is the part an assistant is good at.

• Fill in a whole deck at once. “Here is my list of monsters with their stats — make a card for each, name at the top, stats at the bottom.”
• Rework text across every card. “Shorten every ability to fit two lines”, “use ‘exhaust’ instead of ‘tap’ everywhere”, “check the costs add up the way my rules say”.
• Put icons on the cards. It searches the icon library, thousands of icons made by people, and puts the right one on each card: a sword, a coin, a heart.
• Bring in artwork from the web. Give it a link to an image you are allowed to use, and Card-a-mon downloads it into the project.
• Try ideas without losing the original. Ask it to duplicate a project first, then change the copy.

You stay in the editor for what the editor is for: looking at the cards, nudging things into place, and generating the PDF.

How to connect

The address to give your assistant is:

https://www.cardamon.lt/mcp

Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app): open Customize → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and paste the address. Claude then sends you here to approve it.

Claude Code: run

claude mcp add --transport http cardamon https://www.cardamon.lt/mcp

then /mcp inside Claude Code to sign in.

Other assistants: any that can use a remote MCP server over HTTP with OAuth sign-in will work with the same address.

In every case you will be asked to sign in to Card-a-mon, with the usual email link if you are not signed in already, and then asked whether to let the assistant in. Nothing is shared until you say yes.

What it can and cannot do

A connected assistant can:

• list your projects, create new ones, rename and duplicate them;
• read a project's cards, fields and images, and get a link to download an image that works for an hour, so that a program it runs can process it;
• list a project's earlier versions, name one, and go back to one;
• add, change, reorder and remove cards, and give them ids;
• add, move, restyle, rename and remove text and image fields;
• add, rename and delete layouts, for cards of another design or size beside the others (a rulebook page, say), a layout's size given as one of a print shop's (The Game Crafter's circle chits, say);
• add images from a link, from the icon library (game-icons.net's among them), as SVG it writes itself or as an image file it has (PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP), such as one it processed, and delete images;
• draw pictures in the shapes of the drawing tool, a frame or a badge say, which open in the tool for you to change;
• write the game's brief, its rules, and the engine that plays it;
• while you have the project open in the editor: run the print check, see a card as it prints, playtest the game with bots, and play it itself against them, all done by the editor in your browser;

It cannot delete a project, touch your account, or generate PDFs and PNGs — those stay in the editor. It can only ever reach the account that approved it.

While it is working

If you have the project open in the editor while the assistant changes it, the editor shows the changes within a few seconds. If you were editing at the same moment, Card-a-mon will not save over the assistant's work: it tells you the project changed elsewhere and asks you to reload. Likewise, if you edit while the assistant is in the middle of something, its change is refused and it reads the project again.

The cards are drawn only in your browser, so to check or see them, or to playtest the game, the assistant asks the editor that has the project open. With none open it tells you where to open it; keep that tab open while it works, even behind others.

Privacy and disconnecting

What the assistant reads from your projects is sent to the company that runs it, under that company's terms — the same as anything else you show it. Card-a-mon gives it nothing beyond the projects in your account.

You can see every connected assistant, and disconnect any of them, on your account page. Disconnecting takes effect at once.

Questions or ideas: info@cardamon.lt or Discord.