diff --git a/.pql/changelog/ticket_history/2026-06.sql b/.pql/changelog/ticket_history/2026-06.sql
index 8167d909..295270ad 100644
--- a/.pql/changelog/ticket_history/2026-06.sql
+++ b/.pql/changelog/ticket_history/2026-06.sql
@@ -8108,3 +8108,38 @@ CSS DECISION — inline-normalize (option A): d2 emits a <style> block of FLAT s
 BUILD SPLIT: (1) inline-style normalizer; (2) path-data parser; (3) the CustomPaint painter (shapes/text/image/marker/transform); (4) injected image-href resolver (like image.show). Fixtures: real d2 + graphviz output.', NULL, '2026-06-28 17:54:38', '2026-06-28 17:54:38.871', '2026-06-28 17:54:38.871', NULL, 'afedea62e1486510e317fc4afb0df528', 2) ON CONFLICT(hash) DO NOTHING;
 INSERT INTO ticket_history (ticket_record_id, field, old_value, new_value, changed_by, changed_at, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FGYS06SDJGZ4W3Z9V9HDEATW', 'description', NULL, 'The pre-commit hook re-exports + stages .pql/changelog on commit but only catches the tickets + ticket_history tables — it leaves ticket_deps (blocker edges) and ticket_idmap (new T-NNN <-> record_id mappings) UNSTAGED. Seen repeatedly this session (D-103 re-sequencing blockers; T-495 id mapping), each needing a manual follow-up commit; otherwise the planning state silently doesn''t persist and a later branch switch drops it — exactly the failure the hook exists to prevent. Fix: stage ALL of .pql/changelog/ (git add .pql/changelog/), not just the tables the export rewrote. Repro: pql ticket block X --by Y + create a ticket, commit unrelated files, observe ticket_deps/ticket_idmap still modified afterward.', NULL, '2026-06-28 18:00:41', '2026-06-28 18:00:41.453', '2026-06-28 18:00:41.453', NULL, '81bf67c8003a8e48eb20c5c0b16fc90c', 2) ON CONFLICT(hash) DO NOTHING;
 INSERT INTO ticket_history (ticket_record_id, field, old_value, new_value, changed_by, changed_at, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FB2ETJQP0CT6X7W3CWZ6NS9G', 'status', 'backlog', 'in_progress', NULL, '2026-06-28 18:04:13', '2026-06-28 18:04:13.608', '2026-06-28 18:04:13.608', NULL, 'd1705e1dbede4e9b9cbe8d1fa6e4352e', 2) ON CONFLICT(hash) DO NOTHING;
+INSERT INTO ticket_history (ticket_record_id, field, old_value, new_value, changed_by, changed_at, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FB2ETJQP0CT6X7W3CWZ6NS9G', 'description', 'Template for the unified drawing card (T-317, D-91): render an SVG file referenced in the JSON. clide-owned rendering per the own-the-rendering-stack guardrail — no opinionated SVG package without justification; evaluate what is feasible via CustomPaint / a minimal path parser, and scope accordingly (SVG is a broad spec; define the supported subset). Optional label + description beneath (T-318). Display-only (D-78). Depends on the core engine (T-318).
+
+PROMOTED TO ENGINE (D-103, 2026-06-28): this is now the drawing-card''s rendering FOUNDATION, not one template among many. Build the clide-owned CustomPaint SVG renderer over a BOUNDED subset (rect/line/polyline/polygon/circle/ellipse/path, text incl. the Phosphor font, image, g + transform, basic fill/stroke/opacity/rx). T-318 (envelope + dispatch + Flutter overlay) and every template lower onto this; d2/graphviz/mermaid output renders for free. No longer blocked by T-318 (dependency inverted). Open: pin the subset to what our own templates + d2/graphviz emit. Schema: docs/design/drawing-card-schema.md.
+
+SVG SUBSET FINALIZED (2026-06-28, grounded in a real d2 sample + our own templates):
+
+STRUCTURE: <svg> (viewBox/width/height, incl. nested svg), <g> (transform, opacity, class), <defs>, <marker> (+ marker-start/mid/end; orient=auto, refX/refY, viewBox) — edge arrowheads.
+SHAPES: rect (rx/ry), circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon, path (full data: M L H V C S Q T A Z + relatives).
+TEXT: text + tspan (x/y/dx/dy, font-family incl. Phosphor, font-size/weight, text-anchor, dominant-baseline).
+RASTER: image (href/xlink:href, x/y/w/h, preserveAspectRatio) — our image/compare templates.
+STYLING: presentation attrs (fill, fill-opacity, stroke, stroke-width, stroke-linecap/linejoin, stroke-dasharray, opacity, color), transform (translate/scale/rotate/matrix), class= resolved via the normalizer below.
+DEFERRED v1: <mask> (d2 masks connections for clean edge/node joins) — ignore and rely on node-over-edge paint order; add basic mask only if d2 output looks wrong.
+OUT: foreignObject, filters, <animate>/SMIL, scripting, <use>/<symbol>, gradients, patterns, clipPath. (So mermaid, which leans on foreignObject, is not a launch target.)
+
+CSS DECISION — inline-normalize (option A): d2 emits a <style> block of FLAT single-class selectors (.fill-B1, .color-N1, .shape, .connection, .text-bold → presentation props). A preprocessing normalizer parses <style> into class->props, merges each element''s class props into inline presentation attributes (inline wins), and drops <style>; the painter then only ever sees inline attrs — a pure, testable presentation-attribute renderer. Chosen over a render-time CSS resolver to keep the painter free of any CSS concept.
+
+BUILD SPLIT: (1) inline-style normalizer; (2) path-data parser; (3) the CustomPaint painter (shapes/text/image/marker/transform); (4) injected image-href resolver (like image.show). Fixtures: real d2 + graphviz output.', 'Template for the unified drawing card (T-317, D-91): render an SVG file referenced in the JSON. clide-owned rendering per the own-the-rendering-stack guardrail — no opinionated SVG package without justification; evaluate what is feasible via CustomPaint / a minimal path parser, and scope accordingly (SVG is a broad spec; define the supported subset). Optional label + description beneath (T-318). Display-only (D-78). Depends on the core engine (T-318).
+
+PROMOTED TO ENGINE (D-103, 2026-06-28): this is now the drawing-card''s rendering FOUNDATION, not one template among many. Build the clide-owned CustomPaint SVG renderer over a BOUNDED subset (rect/line/polyline/polygon/circle/ellipse/path, text incl. the Phosphor font, image, g + transform, basic fill/stroke/opacity/rx). T-318 (envelope + dispatch + Flutter overlay) and every template lower onto this; d2/graphviz/mermaid output renders for free. No longer blocked by T-318 (dependency inverted). Open: pin the subset to what our own templates + d2/graphviz emit. Schema: docs/design/drawing-card-schema.md.
+
+SVG SUBSET FINALIZED (2026-06-28, grounded in a real d2 sample + our own templates):
+
+STRUCTURE: <svg> (viewBox/width/height, incl. nested svg), <g> (transform, opacity, class), <defs>, <marker> (+ marker-start/mid/end; orient=auto, refX/refY, viewBox) — edge arrowheads.
+SHAPES: rect (rx/ry), circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon, path (full data: M L H V C S Q T A Z + relatives).
+TEXT: text + tspan (x/y/dx/dy, font-family incl. Phosphor, font-size/weight, text-anchor, dominant-baseline).
+RASTER: image (href/xlink:href, x/y/w/h, preserveAspectRatio) — our image/compare templates.
+STYLING: presentation attrs (fill, fill-opacity, stroke, stroke-width, stroke-linecap/linejoin, stroke-dasharray, opacity, color), transform (translate/scale/rotate/matrix), class= resolved via the normalizer below.
+DEFERRED v1: <mask> (d2 masks connections for clean edge/node joins) — ignore and rely on node-over-edge paint order; add basic mask only if d2 output looks wrong.
+OUT: foreignObject, filters, <animate>/SMIL, scripting, <use>/<symbol>, gradients, patterns, clipPath. (So mermaid, which leans on foreignObject, is not a launch target.)
+
+CSS DECISION — inline-normalize (option A): d2 emits a <style> block of FLAT single-class selectors (.fill-B1, .color-N1, .shape, .connection, .text-bold → presentation props). A preprocessing normalizer parses <style> into class->props, merges each element''s class props into inline presentation attributes (inline wins), and drops <style>; the painter then only ever sees inline attrs — a pure, testable presentation-attribute renderer. Chosen over a render-time CSS resolver to keep the painter free of any CSS concept.
+
+BUILD SPLIT: (1) inline-style normalizer; (2) path-data parser; (3) the CustomPaint painter (shapes/text/image/marker/transform); (4) injected image-href resolver (like image.show). Fixtures: real d2 + graphviz output.
+
+RENDERER CORE DONE (2026-06-28): the pure-Dart pipeline (5 parsers + typed model + builder; 82 dart-test cases incl. a real-d2 fixture) plus the CustomPaint painter (lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart; 8 pixel-probe cases under flutter test) render real d2 output end to end — shapes/text/transforms/group-opacity/viewBox all draw. Exposes paintSvg + SvgScenePainter + SvgView. REMAINING for T-320: (1) markers/arrowheads — collect <marker> defs in the builder + paint marker-end at path endpoints (orient=auto); (2) image painting — async href → ui.Image via an injected resolver (like image.show), currently skipped. After those, T-318 (envelope/dispatch/overlay) consumes SvgView.', NULL, '2026-06-28 18:59:56', '2026-06-28 18:59:56.371', '2026-06-28 18:59:56.371', NULL, '46585e90df499aa7dce4886336e56752', 2) ON CONFLICT(hash) DO NOTHING;
diff --git a/.pql/changelog/tickets/2026-06.sql b/.pql/changelog/tickets/2026-06.sql
index 5762fa1d..6a91e68b 100644
--- a/.pql/changelog/tickets/2026-06.sql
+++ b/.pql/changelog/tickets/2026-06.sql
@@ -9980,3 +9980,22 @@ OUT: foreignObject, filters, <animate>/SMIL, scripting, <use>/<symbol>, gradient
 CSS DECISION — inline-normalize (option A): d2 emits a <style> block of FLAT single-class selectors (.fill-B1, .color-N1, .shape, .connection, .text-bold → presentation props). A preprocessing normalizer parses <style> into class->props, merges each element''s class props into inline presentation attributes (inline wins), and drops <style>; the painter then only ever sees inline attrs — a pure, testable presentation-attribute renderer. Chosen over a render-time CSS resolver to keep the painter free of any CSS concept.
 
 BUILD SPLIT: (1) inline-style normalizer; (2) path-data parser; (3) the CustomPaint painter (shapes/text/image/marker/transform); (4) injected image-href resolver (like image.show). Fixtures: real d2 + graphviz output.', 'in_progress', 'low', NULL, NULL, NULL, '2026-06-10 11:11:55', '2026-06-28 18:04:13.608', NULL, 'ea0df82b234d48fcb6008bb09c927578', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
+INSERT INTO tickets (record_id, type, parent_record_id, title, description, status, priority, assigned_to, team, decision_ref, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FB2ETJQP0CT6X7W3CWZ6NS9G', 'task', '06FB2EDCBYRBDSV9V1PJ1KE3CM', 'Drawing card template: SVG render', 'Template for the unified drawing card (T-317, D-91): render an SVG file referenced in the JSON. clide-owned rendering per the own-the-rendering-stack guardrail — no opinionated SVG package without justification; evaluate what is feasible via CustomPaint / a minimal path parser, and scope accordingly (SVG is a broad spec; define the supported subset). Optional label + description beneath (T-318). Display-only (D-78). Depends on the core engine (T-318).
+
+PROMOTED TO ENGINE (D-103, 2026-06-28): this is now the drawing-card''s rendering FOUNDATION, not one template among many. Build the clide-owned CustomPaint SVG renderer over a BOUNDED subset (rect/line/polyline/polygon/circle/ellipse/path, text incl. the Phosphor font, image, g + transform, basic fill/stroke/opacity/rx). T-318 (envelope + dispatch + Flutter overlay) and every template lower onto this; d2/graphviz/mermaid output renders for free. No longer blocked by T-318 (dependency inverted). Open: pin the subset to what our own templates + d2/graphviz emit. Schema: docs/design/drawing-card-schema.md.
+
+SVG SUBSET FINALIZED (2026-06-28, grounded in a real d2 sample + our own templates):
+
+STRUCTURE: <svg> (viewBox/width/height, incl. nested svg), <g> (transform, opacity, class), <defs>, <marker> (+ marker-start/mid/end; orient=auto, refX/refY, viewBox) — edge arrowheads.
+SHAPES: rect (rx/ry), circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon, path (full data: M L H V C S Q T A Z + relatives).
+TEXT: text + tspan (x/y/dx/dy, font-family incl. Phosphor, font-size/weight, text-anchor, dominant-baseline).
+RASTER: image (href/xlink:href, x/y/w/h, preserveAspectRatio) — our image/compare templates.
+STYLING: presentation attrs (fill, fill-opacity, stroke, stroke-width, stroke-linecap/linejoin, stroke-dasharray, opacity, color), transform (translate/scale/rotate/matrix), class= resolved via the normalizer below.
+DEFERRED v1: <mask> (d2 masks connections for clean edge/node joins) — ignore and rely on node-over-edge paint order; add basic mask only if d2 output looks wrong.
+OUT: foreignObject, filters, <animate>/SMIL, scripting, <use>/<symbol>, gradients, patterns, clipPath. (So mermaid, which leans on foreignObject, is not a launch target.)
+
+CSS DECISION — inline-normalize (option A): d2 emits a <style> block of FLAT single-class selectors (.fill-B1, .color-N1, .shape, .connection, .text-bold → presentation props). A preprocessing normalizer parses <style> into class->props, merges each element''s class props into inline presentation attributes (inline wins), and drops <style>; the painter then only ever sees inline attrs — a pure, testable presentation-attribute renderer. Chosen over a render-time CSS resolver to keep the painter free of any CSS concept.
+
+BUILD SPLIT: (1) inline-style normalizer; (2) path-data parser; (3) the CustomPaint painter (shapes/text/image/marker/transform); (4) injected image-href resolver (like image.show). Fixtures: real d2 + graphviz output.
+
+RENDERER CORE DONE (2026-06-28): the pure-Dart pipeline (5 parsers + typed model + builder; 82 dart-test cases incl. a real-d2 fixture) plus the CustomPaint painter (lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart; 8 pixel-probe cases under flutter test) render real d2 output end to end — shapes/text/transforms/group-opacity/viewBox all draw. Exposes paintSvg + SvgScenePainter + SvgView. REMAINING for T-320: (1) markers/arrowheads — collect <marker> defs in the builder + paint marker-end at path endpoints (orient=auto); (2) image painting — async href → ui.Image via an injected resolver (like image.show), currently skipped. After those, T-318 (envelope/dispatch/overlay) consumes SvgView.', 'in_progress', 'low', NULL, NULL, NULL, '2026-06-10 11:11:55', '2026-06-28 18:59:56.371', NULL, '3748efc57b0f8cd46f1665d805f491c6', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
diff --git a/lib/src/svg/svg_document.dart b/lib/src/svg/svg_document.dart
index 2e24bfa8..4d9fb4f5 100644
--- a/lib/src/svg/svg_document.dart
+++ b/lib/src/svg/svg_document.dart
@@ -25,15 +25,50 @@ SvgDocument buildSvgDocument(String src) {
   if (root == null || root.name != 'svg') return SvgDocument.empty;
   inlineStyles(root);
 
+  final markers = <String, SvgMarker>{};
+  _collectMarkers(root, markers);
+
   final style = _resolveStyle(root.attrs, SvgStyle.initial);
   return SvgDocument(
     width: _lenN(root.attrs['width']),
     height: _lenN(root.attrs['height']),
     viewBox: _viewBox(root.attrs['viewBox']),
     root: SvgGroup(style, _transform(root.attrs['transform']), _children(root, style)),
+    markers: markers,
   );
 }
 
+void _collectMarkers(XmlElement el, Map<String, SvgMarker> into) {
+  if (el.name == 'marker') {
+    final id = el.attrs['id'];
+    if (id != null && id.isNotEmpty) into[id] = _marker(el);
+  }
+  for (final c in el.children) {
+    if (c is XmlElement) _collectMarkers(c, into);
+  }
+}
+
+SvgMarker _marker(XmlElement el) {
+  final orient = el.attrs['orient'];
+  final auto = orient == 'auto' || orient == 'auto-start-reverse';
+  return SvgMarker(
+    refX: _num(el.attrs['refX']),
+    refY: _num(el.attrs['refY']),
+    orientAuto: auto,
+    orientAngle: (orient != null && !auto) ? (_stripNum(orient) ?? 0) : 0,
+    strokeScaled: el.attrs['markerUnits'] != 'userSpaceOnUse', // default = strokeWidth
+    viewBox: _viewBox(el.attrs['viewBox']),
+    children: _children(el, SvgStyle.initial),
+  );
+}
+
+/// Extract the id from a `marker-*` value like `url(#id)`.
+String? _markerRef(String? v) {
+  if (v == null) return null;
+  final m = RegExp(r'url\(\s*#([^)\s]+)\s*\)').firstMatch(v);
+  return m?.group(1) ?? (v.startsWith('#') ? v.substring(1) : null);
+}
+
 List<SvgNode> _children(XmlElement el, SvgStyle inherited) {
   final out = <SvgNode>[];
   for (final c in el.children) {
@@ -69,7 +104,14 @@ SvgNode? _node(XmlElement el, SvgStyle inherited) {
     case 'polygon':
       return SvgPolyline(style, tf, _points(a['points']), true);
     case 'path':
-      return SvgPath(style, tf, parseSvgPath(a['d'] ?? ''));
+      return SvgPath(
+        style,
+        tf,
+        parseSvgPath(a['d'] ?? ''),
+        markerStart: _markerRef(a['marker-start']),
+        markerMid: _markerRef(a['marker-mid']),
+        markerEnd: _markerRef(a['marker-end']),
+      );
     case 'text':
       return SvgText(style, tf, _num(a['x']), _num(a['y']), _textOf(el));
     case 'image':
diff --git a/lib/src/svg/svg_node.dart b/lib/src/svg/svg_node.dart
index d9643765..645f8507 100644
--- a/lib/src/svg/svg_node.dart
+++ b/lib/src/svg/svg_node.dart
@@ -96,8 +96,31 @@ class SvgPolyline extends SvgNode {
 }
 
 class SvgPath extends SvgNode {
-  const SvgPath(super.style, super.transform, this.segments);
+  const SvgPath(super.style, super.transform, this.segments, {this.markerStart, this.markerMid, this.markerEnd});
   final List<SvgPathSeg> segments;
+
+  /// Ids (sans `url(#…)`) of `marker-start`/`mid`/`end` definitions, if any.
+  final String? markerStart, markerMid, markerEnd;
+}
+
+/// A `<marker>` definition (e.g. an arrowhead), referenced by `marker-*`.
+class SvgMarker {
+  const SvgMarker({
+    required this.refX,
+    required this.refY,
+    required this.orientAuto,
+    required this.orientAngle,
+    required this.strokeScaled,
+    required this.children,
+    this.viewBox,
+  });
+
+  final double refX, refY;
+  final bool orientAuto; // orient="auto"
+  final double orientAngle; // fixed angle (degrees) when not auto
+  final bool strokeScaled; // markerUnits=strokeWidth (default) vs userSpaceOnUse
+  final SvgViewBox? viewBox;
+  final List<SvgNode> children;
 }
 
 class SvgText extends SvgNode {
@@ -121,11 +144,14 @@ class SvgViewBox {
 /// A parsed SVG document: optional intrinsic [width]/[height] (px), optional
 /// [viewBox], and the [root] group.
 class SvgDocument {
-  const SvgDocument({this.width, this.height, this.viewBox, required this.root});
+  const SvgDocument({this.width, this.height, this.viewBox, required this.root, this.markers = const {}});
 
   static const empty = SvgDocument(root: SvgGroup(SvgStyle.initial, null, []));
 
   final double? width, height;
   final SvgViewBox? viewBox;
   final SvgGroup root;
+
+  /// `<marker>` definitions by id, referenced by path `marker-*`.
+  final Map<String, SvgMarker> markers;
 }
diff --git a/lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart b/lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart
index f3bc9e09..db3d6e90 100644
--- a/lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart
+++ b/lib/widgets/src/svg/svg_painter.dart
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 /// scale, centred — `xMidYMid meet`) and drawing shapes/text with per-node
 /// transforms and opacity.
 ///
-/// v1 scope (matches the builder): groups, rect/ellipse/line/poly/path, text.
-/// `image` href resolution is async and deferred (not painted yet); markers
-/// (arrowheads) are a follow-on. Default paints follow SVG: fill black, stroke
+/// v1 scope: groups, rect/ellipse/line/poly/path, text, and `marker-*`
+/// arrowheads (rotated to the path direction). `image` href resolution is async
+/// and deferred (not painted yet). Default paints follow SVG: fill black, stroke
 /// none, stroke-width 1.
 library;
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
 void paintSvg(ui.Canvas canvas, Size size, SvgDocument doc) {
   canvas.save();
   _applyViewport(canvas, size, doc);
-  _paintNode(canvas, doc.root);
+  _paintNode(canvas, doc.root, doc.markers);
   canvas.restore();
 }
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void _applyViewport(ui.Canvas canvas, Size size, SvgDocument doc) {
   if (vb != null) canvas.translate(-vb.minX, -vb.minY);
 }
 
-void _paintNode(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node) {
+void _paintNode(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node, Map<String, SvgMarker> markers) {
   canvas.save();
   if (node.transform != null) canvas.transform(_matrix4(node.transform!));
   final layered = node.style.opacity < 1.0;
@@ -51,21 +51,21 @@ void _paintNode(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node) {
   switch (node) {
     case SvgGroup g:
       for (final c in g.children) {
-        _paintNode(canvas, c);
+        _paintNode(canvas, c, markers);
       }
     case SvgText t:
       _paintText(canvas, t);
     case SvgImage _:
       break; // async href resolution deferred (v1)
     default:
-      _paintShape(canvas, node);
+      _paintShape(canvas, node, markers);
   }
 
   if (layered) canvas.restore();
   canvas.restore();
 }
 
-void _paintShape(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node) {
+void _paintShape(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node, Map<String, SvgMarker> markers) {
   final path = _shapePath(node);
   if (path == null) return;
   final s = node.style;
@@ -90,6 +90,87 @@ void _paintShape(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgNode node) {
         ..strokeJoin = _join(s.lineJoin),
     );
   }
+
+  // Markers (arrowheads) at the path ends, rotated to the path direction.
+  if (node is SvgPath && markers.isNotEmpty) {
+    final ends = _pathEnds(node.segments);
+    if (ends != null) {
+      final (sx, sy, sAngle, ex, ey, eAngle) = ends;
+      final sw = s.strokeWidth ?? 1.0;
+      final end = node.markerEnd == null ? null : markers[node.markerEnd];
+      if (end != null) _paintMarker(canvas, end, ex, ey, eAngle, sw, markers);
+      final start = node.markerStart == null ? null : markers[node.markerStart];
+      if (start != null) _paintMarker(canvas, start, sx, sy, sAngle, sw, markers);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void _paintMarker(ui.Canvas canvas, SvgMarker m, double x, double y, double angle, double strokeWidth, Map<String, SvgMarker> markers) {
+  canvas.save();
+  canvas.translate(x, y);
+  canvas.rotate(m.orientAuto ? angle : m.orientAngle * math.pi / 180);
+  if (m.strokeScaled) canvas.scale(strokeWidth);
+  // viewBox→viewport scaling is approximated 1:1 (holds for d2's markers).
+  canvas.translate(-m.refX, -m.refY);
+  for (final c in m.children) {
+    _paintNode(canvas, c, markers);
+  }
+  canvas.restore();
+}
+
+/// Start/end points and tangent angles of a path: `(sx, sy, startAngle, ex, ey,
+/// endAngle)`, or `null` if the path has no drawing segments.
+(double, double, double, double, double, double)? _pathEnds(List<SvgPathSeg> segs) {
+  double cx = 0, cy = 0, sx = 0, sy = 0;
+  double startAngle = 0, fx = 0, fy = 0;
+  var seenDraw = false, seenEnd = false;
+  for (final s in segs) {
+    final a = s.args;
+    switch (s.op) {
+      case SvgPathOp.moveTo:
+        cx = a[0];
+        cy = a[1];
+        sx = cx;
+        sy = cy;
+      case SvgPathOp.lineTo:
+        if (!seenDraw) startAngle = math.atan2(a[1] - cy, a[0] - cx);
+        fx = cx;
+        fy = cy;
+        cx = a[0];
+        cy = a[1];
+        seenDraw = seenEnd = true;
+      case SvgPathOp.cubicTo:
+        if (!seenDraw) startAngle = math.atan2(a[1] - cy, a[0] - cx);
+        fx = a[2];
+        fy = a[3];
+        cx = a[4];
+        cy = a[5];
+        seenDraw = seenEnd = true;
+      case SvgPathOp.quadTo:
+        if (!seenDraw) startAngle = math.atan2(a[1] - cy, a[0] - cx);
+        fx = a[0];
+        fy = a[1];
+        cx = a[2];
+        cy = a[3];
+        seenDraw = seenEnd = true;
+      case SvgPathOp.arcTo:
+        if (!seenDraw) startAngle = math.atan2(a[6] - cy, a[5] - cx);
+        fx = cx;
+        fy = cy;
+        cx = a[5];
+        cy = a[6];
+        seenDraw = seenEnd = true;
+      case SvgPathOp.close:
+        if (!seenDraw) startAngle = math.atan2(sy - cy, sx - cx);
+        fx = cx;
+        fy = cy;
+        cx = sx;
+        cy = sy;
+        seenDraw = seenEnd = true;
+    }
+  }
+  if (!seenEnd) return null;
+  return (sx, sy, startAngle, cx, cy, math.atan2(cy - fy, cx - fx));
 }
 
 ui.Path? _shapePath(SvgNode node) {
diff --git a/test/svg/svg_document_test.dart b/test/svg/svg_document_test.dart
index 0c55db10..983035d8 100644
--- a/test/svg/svg_document_test.dart
+++ b/test/svg/svg_document_test.dart
@@ -104,9 +104,21 @@ void main() {
       expect(p.segments.first.op, SvgPathOp.moveTo);
     });
 
-    test('defs and marker are skipped this slice', () {
-      final k = kids('<svg><defs><marker id="m"><polygon points="0,0 1,1"/></marker></defs><rect/></svg>');
-      expect(k.map((n) => n.runtimeType.toString()), ['SvgRect']);
+    test('marker defs are collected (not drawn inline) with the path marker-end ref', () {
+      final d = buildSvgDocument(
+        '<svg><defs><marker id="arrow" refX="7" refY="6" orient="auto" markerUnits="userSpaceOnUse">'
+        '<polygon points="0,0 10,6 0,12" fill="#0D32B2"/></marker></defs>'
+        '<path d="M0 0 L10 0" marker-end="url(#arrow)"/></svg>',
+      );
+      // defs/marker are not drawable children — only the path is.
+      expect(d.root.children.map((n) => n.runtimeType.toString()), ['SvgPath']);
+      // …but the marker is collected, with its content style resolved.
+      final m = d.markers['arrow']!;
+      expect(m.refX, 7);
+      expect(m.orientAuto, isTrue);
+      expect(m.strokeScaled, isFalse); // markerUnits=userSpaceOnUse
+      expect((m.children.single as SvgPolyline).style.fill, 0xFF0D32B2);
+      expect((d.root.children.single as SvgPath).markerEnd, 'arrow');
     });
   });
 }
diff --git a/test/widgets/svg/svg_painter_test.dart b/test/widgets/svg/svg_painter_test.dart
index da6252ff..63b62f6c 100644
--- a/test/widgets/svg/svg_painter_test.dart
+++ b/test/widgets/svg/svg_painter_test.dart
@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ void main() {
     expect(alpha(await argbAt(img, 5, 5)), closeTo(128, 4));
   });
 
+  test('draws a marker-end arrowhead, rotated to the path direction', () async {
+    // A rightward path with a green right-pointing triangle marker at its end.
+    const svg =
+        '<svg viewBox="0 0 20 10">'
+        '<defs><marker id="a" refX="0" refY="2" orient="auto" markerUnits="userSpaceOnUse">'
+        '<polygon points="0,0 4,2 0,4" fill="#00FF00"/></marker></defs>'
+        '<path d="M2 5 L12 5" stroke="#000000" marker-end="url(#a)"/></svg>';
+    final data = (await (await render(svg, 40, 20)).toByteData())!;
+    var greenDrawn = false;
+    for (var i = 0; i < data.lengthInBytes; i += 4) {
+      final r = data.getUint8(i), g = data.getUint8(i + 1), b = data.getUint8(i + 2), a = data.getUint8(i + 3);
+      if (a > 200 && g > 200 && r < 80 && b < 80) {
+        greenDrawn = true;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    expect(greenDrawn, isTrue, reason: 'the green arrowhead should have been painted');
+  });
+
   test('renders the real d2 fixture without error and draws ink', () async {
     final svg = File('test/svg/fixtures/d2_pipeline.svg').readAsStringSync();
     final img = await render(svg, 200, 120);