canvas-design
An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, design, documents, generative, visual-art.
What it does
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill canvas-designOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/canvas-design ~/.claude/skills/canvas-designSafety box score
Grade B, low risk: 23 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-09-20. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.
Source
- Repository
- anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/canvas-design/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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