Canva Agent Skills

Agent skills for working with Canva designs. This repo is a marketplace-style package: root-level marketplace metadata points to one shared plugin package under plugins/canva/, which supports Claude, Cursor, and Codex.

How This Repo Is Organized

This repo separates host entrypoints from the reusable Canva plugin package:

marketplace/catalog -> exposes plugin package -> plugin contains skills

• Marketplaces/catalogs expose installable plugins to a host.
• Plugins are the installable distribution unit.
• Skills live inside the plugin package because they are bundled with the plugin when installed.

The shared Canva plugin package is plugins/canva/. It contains the active skills/ directory, host-specific plugin manifests, and Canva MCP registration.

The root hidden folders are host entrypoints:

• .agents/plugins/marketplace.json — Codex marketplace entrypoint
• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — Claude marketplace entrypoint
• .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json — Cursor marketplace entrypoint
• .cursor/ — Cursor project config, not a marketplace

Each host entrypoint folder has a small README with setup notes for that host.

Active Plugin Skills

These skills are exposed by every supported host through the shared plugins/canva/skills/ directory.

resize-for-social-media

Resize designs for multiple social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) in one operation.

Use when: You want to quickly distribute a design across multiple social media formats.

Capabilities:

• Creates platform-optimized versions (e.g. Facebook post/story, Instagram post/story, LinkedIn post)
• Provides Canva edit links so users can download or refine each version
• Resizes selected formats in parallel

bulk-create

Bulk-create Canva designs from tabular data using a brand template, one design per row.

Use when: You want to generate many designs from a CSV, spreadsheet, pasted table, or JSON (e.g. one design per product or row).

Capabilities:

• Accepts tabular data from uploaded files, pasted content, or URLs
• Finds brand templates that support autofill and maps columns to template fields
• Creates one design per row with autofill-design (text, image, and chart fields where supported)
• Requires Canva Enterprise for autofill

implement-feedback

Implement reviewer feedback on a Canva design: read comment threads and apply the changes the API supports.

Use when: A design has been reviewed and you want to apply the feedback without manually reading every comment thread and editing each slide.

Capabilities:

• Reads all comment threads and replies across the design
• Triages feedback into actionable, ambiguous, and manual-only categories
• Applies API-supported changes (text, formatting, images) after user approval
• Presents a checklist of remaining manual changes with step-by-step instructions
• Replies to comment threads after changes are made

edit-design

Make safe, approval-gated edits to an existing Canva design.

Use when: You want to change, fix, replace, or reformat content in a specific Canva design.

Capabilities:

• Starts a Canva editing transaction, performs batched operations, and commits only after approval
• Changes text content and supported text formatting
• Replaces, inserts, deletes, repositions, or resizes supported media and elements
• Clearly flags changes that the Canva API cannot perform

get-design-feedback

Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback.

Use when: You want critique on visual hierarchy, copy, layout, spacing, consistency, readability, accessibility, or fit for purpose.

Capabilities:

• Reads rendered thumbnails and design text
• Uses read-only inspection for layout details where available
• Prioritizes page-specific findings with concrete fixes
• Never edits or commits changes

brand-check

Check a Canva design against a brand kit and report where it diverges.

Use when: You want to know whether a design is on brand, including colors, typography, logo handling, tone, and consistency.

Capabilities:

• Lists available brand kits and compares against the selected kit
• Uses design and brand-kit thumbnails when exact colors or fonts are not available from the API
• Marks findings as on brand, off brand, or can't verify
• Offers to hand off fixable items to edit-design if the user wants changes made

Inactive Skills

The repo also keeps additional skill work under plugins/canva/inactive-skills/. These are not registered by any plugin host because each host exposes the same active subset from plugins/canva/skills/.

• branded-presentation
• classroom-helper
• design-translation
• presentation-time-fitting

Installation

Each host uses the Canva MCP server at https://mcp.canva.com/mcp. Connect the canva MCP server and sign in to Canva when prompted.

Claude

Install from GitHub:

/plugin marketplace add canva-sdks/canva-skills
/plugin install canva@canva-skills

If you already added this marketplace before, refresh it instead:

/plugin marketplace update canva-skills

This works in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other Claude clients that support plugin marketplaces. See .claude-plugin/README.md for details.

Cursor

Cursor Marketplace installs use .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json and plugins/canva/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json. See .cursor-plugin/README.md for marketplace details.

To use the skills while working in this repo:

1. Open this repo in Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json and .cursor/skills/ load automatically), or open plugins/canva/ directly
2. In Settings → MCP Tools, connect the canva server and sign in with Canva
3. Use the skills naturally in agent chat — see .cursor/README.md for details

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add canva-sdks/canva-skills
codex plugin add canva@canva-skills
codex mcp login canva

If you already added this marketplace before, refresh it instead:

codex plugin marketplace upgrade canva-skills

Then start a new Codex thread and use @canva or ask for Canva workflows naturally. See .agents/plugins/README.md for details.

Codex uses .agents/plugins/marketplace.json to find the package at plugins/canva/, then plugins/canva/.codex-plugin/plugin.json for plugin metadata, plugins/canva/.mcp.json for the Canva MCP server, and plugins/canva/skills/ for the active skill set.

Usage

Simply reference the skills naturally in your conversations:

Examples:

# Social media resize
"Resize design DABcd1234ef for all social media platforms"

# Bulk create
"Bulk create designs from this spreadsheet using my brand template"

# Implement feedback
"Implement the feedback on my deck"

# Edit design
"Change the headline in this Canva design and make it bold"

# Design feedback
"Review this Canva design and tell me what to improve"

# Brand check
"Check this Canva design against my brand kit"

Works in Claude, Cursor, and Codex.

Repository Structure

canva-skills/
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── .agents/plugins/                      # Codex marketplace entrypoint
│   ├── README.md
│   └── marketplace.json
├── .claude-plugin/                       # Claude marketplace entrypoint
│   ├── README.md
│   └── marketplace.json
├── .cursor-plugin/                       # Cursor marketplace entrypoint
│   ├── README.md
│   └── marketplace.json
├── .cursor/                              # Cursor project config, not a marketplace
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── mcp.json
│   └── skills -> ../plugins/canva/skills
└── plugins/
    └── canva/
        ├── README.md
        ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json    # Claude plugin manifest
        ├── .cursor-plugin/plugin.json    # Cursor plugin manifest
        ├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json     # Codex plugin manifest
        ├── .cursor/                      # Cursor project config when opening package directly
        ├── .mcp.json                     # MCP registration for Cursor marketplace and Codex
        ├── skills/                       # Active plugin skills exposed by all hosts
        │   ├── brand-check/
        │   ├── bulk-create/
        │   ├── edit-design/
        │   ├── get-design-feedback/
        │   ├── implement-feedback/
        │   └── resize-for-social-media/
        └── inactive-skills/              # Kept in repo, not registered by plugin hosts
            ├── branded-presentation/
            ├── classroom-helper/
            ├── design-translation/
            └── presentation-time-fitting/

Contributing

To add a new skill:

1. Create a new directory under plugins/canva/inactive-skills/ while drafting, or under plugins/canva/skills/ when it should be exposed by every plugin host
2. Add a SKILL.md file with skill metadata and workflow
3. Follow the existing skill patterns for consistency
4. Register active skills in plugins/canva/.claude-plugin/plugin.json (Claude requires an explicit list; Cursor and Codex discover skills from ./skills/)
5. Update this README with the new skill

License

Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE for details.