Skill

Canvas Design skill

Canvas Design is a skill in Anthropic's skills repository for making static visual pieces such as posters and art, saved as PNG or PDF files.

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Checked 2026-11-11

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/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

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Canvas Design is a skill in Anthropic's skills repository for making static visual pieces such as posters and art, saved as PNG or PDF files. Its SKILL.md follows two steps: the agent first writes a design philosophy, a named aesthetic movement, then expresses it on a canvas with mostly visuals and very little text. It tells the agent to create original work and not copy existing artists, and a folder of canvas fonts comes with it. We would suggest it for posters, covers and one-off visuals where you want an agent to take a stylistic position. The limit is that the philosophy step makes output subjective, and it produces static images only, so it is not a replacement for a layout tool or a brand system. The folder holds an Apache 2.0 LICENSE.txt, the install line we list is the marketplace command for the whole repository, and the repository was last pushed on 6 November 2026, as read on 11 November. We have not run it ourselves.

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Questions

How do I install Canvas Design skill?

Run this command: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills. The install box on this page has the command for each agent it works with.

Is Canvas Design skill free?

It is published under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Who maintains Canvas Design skill?

It is maintained by Anthropic, as the official add-on for its service. The code is at github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design.

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