anthropics/skills/skills/canvas-design
Canvas design
Creates original static visual art as PNG or PDF files from a design philosophy, for posters, artwork, designs and similar pieces.
What Canvas design does
The skill starts by turning the user's request into a visual philosophy rather than a layout or template. It names an aesthetic movement, then describes how that direction uses form, space, color, scale, rhythm, composition and visual hierarchy. The philosophy is written to a Markdown file and keeps text secondary to visual expression.
Before drawing, the agent identifies a subtle conceptual reference from the original request. It then applies the philosophy and that reference to a canvas, with sparse typography, deliberate spacing and visual elements kept inside the page boundaries. The instructions tell the agent to check the bundled canvas-fonts directory when choosing type. The normal result is one PDF or PNG, although additional pages can be made when requested. A final pass refines the existing composition rather than adding more material. The finished output includes the PDF or PNG together with the Markdown design philosophy.
Install
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsRead the security check below before you run it. The repository's own instructions win if they differ.
Security check
What the skill's files do, from reading them. A flag that nobody has checked yet says "Not checked", never "No".
- Runs scripts
- No
- Uses the network
- No
- Installs hooks
- No
- Asks for secrets
- No
The supplied folder scan found no scripts, embedded network calls, hook definitions or secret variables at the checked commit. The folder contains the skill instructions, license material and font files. Following the skill can create Markdown, PDF and PNG files on the machine. Before installing, read the SKILL.md and review the bundled files so you know what instructions your agent will receive and where generated files may be written.
Scan details: No scripts, hook definitions, network calls or secret variables were found in the skill folder. Checked at commit 8a1541c4a3ff.
Use cases
- Create a poster or other static visual piece.
- Turn a visual direction into an original PNG or PDF.
- Build several related pages from one design philosophy.
Limitations
- The instructions restrict output to Markdown, PDF and PNG files.
- Designs should be original rather than copies of existing artists' work.
- Text is intended to remain sparse and secondary to the visual composition.
Sources
- canvas-design skill folderRepositoryPrimarygithub.com
- anthropics/skillsRepositoryPrimarygithub.com
- github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/canvas-design/SKILL.mdRepositoryPrimary
- github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonRepositoryPrimary