diff --git a/apps/playground/AGENTS.md b/apps/playground/AGENTS.md
index 231572ed7..b0a06e79e 100644
--- a/apps/playground/AGENTS.md
+++ b/apps/playground/AGENTS.md
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ Share links come from `@opendatacapture/playground-url`, which lz-string-compres
 the URL fragment. A link that differs only in its fragment does not reload the page, so `IndexPage`
 reads the URL through `useLocationHref`, which re-renders on `hashchange`; reading `location.href`
 directly means pasting a second share link into an open tab does nothing. Its `$EditorFile` requires
-`content` to be a UTF-8 string, so binary assets do not survive a share URL.
+`content` to be a UTF-8 string, which binary assets satisfy because the store already holds them as
+base64; the package's CLI leaves them out of the links it prints to keep them short.
 
 ## Odds and ends
 
diff --git a/packages/playground-url/AGENTS.md b/packages/playground-url/AGENTS.md
index b3c818288..76a95f0a2 100644
--- a/packages/playground-url/AGENTS.md
+++ b/packages/playground-url/AGENTS.md
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ its `publishConfig`, so a change here is a change to a public API, and `version`
 workspace. `pnpm build` runs `scripts/build.js`, which esbuilds `src/cli.ts` into `dist/cli.js` and
 nothing else — `dist` exists only for the `bin`. A library change needs no build; a CLI change does.
 
-**A share URL can carry UTF-8 text and nothing else.** Files are `JSON.stringify`d and lz-string
-compressed into the URL fragment, so images, audio and video cannot be represented at all. The CLI
-skips them with a warning; `TEXT_FILE_EXT_REGEX` and `BINARY_FILE_EXT_REGEX` in `src/cli.ts` are the
-allowlist and the known-skip list, and both must track what the playground editor accepts.
+**A share URL carries every file as a UTF-8 string.** Files are `JSON.stringify`d and lz-string
+compressed into the URL fragment. The playground holds images, audio and video as base64 strings, so
+its Share button carries them too; the CLI skips them with a warning to keep links short.
+`TEXT_FILE_EXT_REGEX` and `BINARY_FILE_EXT_REGEX` in `src/cli.ts` are the allowlist and the
+known-skip list. They must track `inferFileType` and `isBase64EncodedFileType` in
+`apps/playground/src/utils/file.ts`: an `.svg` is text there, so it is text here.
 
 The encoding is a wire format for links people have already shared. Changing what `encodeFiles`
 writes invalidates every existing link, so `decodeShareURL` has to keep reading the old shape.
diff --git a/packages/playground-url/README.md b/packages/playground-url/README.md
index aca5fd6cd..6dd4aaa7f 100644
--- a/packages/playground-url/README.md
+++ b/packages/playground-url/README.md
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ The status line is written to stderr and the link to stdout, so it pipes cleanly
 | `-b, --base-url <url>` | Playground origin to link to (defaults to the hosted playground). |
 | `-o, --open`           | Open the generated link in your default browser.                  |
 
-Only text source files (`.css`, `.html`, `.js`, `.jsx`, `.json`, `.ts`, `.tsx`) are embedded; binary assets cannot be represented in a share URL and are skipped with a warning.
+Only text files (`.css`, `.html`, `.js`, `.jsx`, `.json`, `.svg`, `.ts`, `.tsx`) are embedded. Binary assets (`.jpeg`, `.jpg`, `.mp3`, `.mp4`, `.png`, `.webp`) are skipped with a warning to keep links short; the playground's own Share button does carry them, base64-encoded.
diff --git a/packages/playground-url/src/__tests__/cli.test.ts b/packages/playground-url/src/__tests__/cli.test.ts
index f9da71f46..012e83fdc 100644
--- a/packages/playground-url/src/__tests__/cli.test.ts
+++ b/packages/playground-url/src/__tests__/cli.test.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ describe('cli', () => {
     expect(stderrSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("Skipping 'icon.png'"));
   });
 
+  it('should embed an SVG as the text it is, rather than skip it as a binary asset', async () => {
+    const svg = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1 1"><rect width="1" height="1" /></svg>\n';
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'index.ts'), "import logo from './logo.svg';\nexport default { logo };");
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'logo.svg'), svg);
+    process.argv = ['node', 'cli.js', tmpDir];
+    const { decodeShareURL } = await import('../share-url.js');
+    await import('../cli.js');
+    const href = stdoutSpy.mock.calls
+      .map(([chunk]: [unknown]) => chunk)
+      .find((chunk: unknown) => typeof chunk === 'string' && chunk.includes('http'));
+    const decoded = decodeShareURL(new URL((href as string).trim()));
+    expect(decoded?.files.find((file) => file.name === 'logo.svg')?.content).toBe(svg);
+    expect(stderrSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('Skipping'));
+  });
+
   it('should ignore a subdirectory rather than read it as a file', async () => {
     fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'index.ts'), 'export default {};');
     fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'nested'));
diff --git a/packages/playground-url/src/cli.ts b/packages/playground-url/src/cli.ts
index b810b4d27..b0262ea6c 100644
--- a/packages/playground-url/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/playground-url/src/cli.ts
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import { DEFAULT_PLAYGROUND_URL, encodeShareURL } from './share-url.js';
 
 import type { EditorFile } from './models.js';
 
-/** Text files the playground can load from a share URL. */
-const TEXT_FILE_EXT_REGEX = /\.(css|html|js|jsx|json|ts|tsx)$/i;
-/** Bundler assets that exist on disk but cannot be embedded in a (string-only) share URL. */
-const BINARY_FILE_EXT_REGEX = /\.(jpeg|jpg|mp3|mp4|png|svg|webp)$/i;
+/** Text files embedded in the share URL as they are on disk, as the playground holds them. */
+const TEXT_FILE_EXT_REGEX = /\.(css|html|js|jsx|json|svg|ts|tsx)$/i;
+/** Binary assets the CLI leaves out to keep links short, although the playground could load them. */
+const BINARY_FILE_EXT_REGEX = /\.(jpeg|jpg|mp3|mp4|png|webp)$/i;
 
 function parseTarget(target: string): string {
   const resolved = path.resolve(target);
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function readInstrumentFiles(target: string): EditorFile[] {
       files.push({ content: fs.readFileSync(filepath, 'utf-8'), name: entry.name });
     } else if (BINARY_FILE_EXT_REGEX.test(entry.name)) {
       process.stderr.write(
-        chalk.yellow(`⚠ Skipping '${entry.name}': binary assets cannot be embedded in a share URL\n`)
+        chalk.yellow(`⚠ Skipping '${entry.name}': the CLI does not embed binary assets in a share URL\n`)
       );
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/playground-url/src/models.ts b/packages/playground-url/src/models.ts
index 08d382af9..b84fb4938 100644
--- a/packages/playground-url/src/models.ts
+++ b/packages/playground-url/src/models.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import { z } from 'zod/v4';
 
 /**
  * A single source file of a playground instrument. The content must be a UTF-8
- * string, mirroring the playground editor's own file model — binary assets
- * (images, audio, video) cannot be represented in a share URL.
+ * string, mirroring the playground editor's own file model: text files as they
+ * are, and binary assets (images, audio, video) as base64.
  */
 export type EditorFile = z.infer<typeof $EditorFile>;
 export const $EditorFile = z.object({
diff --git a/testing/src/specs/playground.spec.ts b/testing/src/specs/playground.spec.ts
index a4610baef..c23c60b52 100644
--- a/testing/src/specs/playground.spec.ts
+++ b/testing/src/specs/playground.spec.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+
 import { generatePlaygroundURL } from '@opendatacapture/playground-url';
 
 import { PlaygroundPage } from '../pages/playground/index.page';
@@ -247,6 +250,33 @@ test.describe('playground', () => {
     await expect(task.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Vite + React' })).toBeVisible({ timeout: PREVIEW_TIMEOUT });
   });
 
+  // `test:e2e` builds `@opendatacapture/playground-url` first, so its CLI is in `dist`. The React
+  // example imports `react.svg`; the CLI used to skip it as binary, so the link failed to compile.
+  test('should render an SVG asset from a link generated by the playground-url CLI', async ({ page }) => {
+    const repoRoot = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../../..');
+    const href = execFileSync(
+      process.execPath,
+      [
+        path.join(repoRoot, 'packages/playground-url/dist/cli.js'),
+        path.join(repoRoot, 'apps/playground/src/instruments/examples/interactive/Interactive-With-React'),
+        '--base-url',
+        playgroundURL
+      ],
+      { encoding: 'utf-8' }
+    ).trim();
+    const playground = new PlaygroundPage(page);
+    await playground.goto(href);
+
+    await playground.preview.getByRole('button', { name: 'Begin' }).click({ timeout: PREVIEW_TIMEOUT });
+
+    // A visibility check would also pass for an SVG that arrives base64-encoded and renders broken.
+    const logo = playground.preview
+      .frameLocator('iframe[name="interactive-instrument"]')
+      .getByRole('img', { name: 'React logo' });
+    await expect(logo).toBeVisible({ timeout: PREVIEW_TIMEOUT });
+    await expect.poll(() => logo.evaluate((img: HTMLImageElement) => img.naturalWidth)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
   test('should hand a submission from the preview back to the editor', async ({ page }) => {
     const playground = new PlaygroundPage(page);
     await playground.goto();