canvas-design

Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy and aesthetic principles for posters, illustrations, and static pieces.

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From: nexu-io/open-design

Get it through your agent npx skills add nexu-io/open-design@canvas-design

Skill instructions

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canvas-design

Curated from Anthropic's official skills repository.

What it does

Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy and aesthetic principles for posters, illustrations, and static pieces.

Source

Upstream: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design
Category: image-generation

How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (canvas-design) or with one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

Get it through your agent

Call the Graph-of-Skills MCP server's retrieve_skill_bundle tool and it returns this skill's text inside your budget.

{
  "tool": "retrieve_skill_bundle",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "canvas-design"
  }
}

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Source

Source repository nexu-io/open-design
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