What is github-profile-console?

GitHub Profile Console is a starter kit that turns a transparent portrait photo and a set of profile details into an animated GitHub Profile README. If you have seen those GitHub profile pages with a moving ASCII-style portrait and a styled About section, this project is built to generate that kind of page for you, using your own photo and information rather than a generic template. You start by using this repository as a template to create a new GitHub repository that shares your exact username, since GitHub only shows a Profile README when the repository name matches the owner's username. After cloning your new repository and installing dependencies with npm, you provide a head-to-torso photo with a transparent background. The tool converts that photo locally into an animated ASCII-style portrait and generates separate versions for desktop and mobile screens, as well as light and dark mode, all as SVG image files. Your original photo is never uploaded anywhere or copied into the repository, since all rendering happens on your own machine. There are two ways to fill in your profile content. You can run a guided setup wizard that asks you questions about your name, headline, projects, and focus areas, or you can hand a prompt file to an AI coding assistant like Claude Code or Codex along with your portrait, and let it write the profile copy for you. Both paths produce the same kind of generated files. The project also includes an optional automation that can add a small recent-activity section to your README without touching anything else. Under the hood it uses Node.js and the sharp image-processing library to do the portrait conversion, plus a validation command that checks your configuration and generated files before you publish. All the profile text lives in a single configuration file, so you can update your information later without editing code directly. The project is released under the MIT license.