Agent skill

Canvas Lms API

by aspi6246 in aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics

A skill your agent uses whenever working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating or updating modules, pages, and files for a course, building sync scripts, managing course structure…

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Install Canvas Lms API

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .claude/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .claude/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .agents/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .agents/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .cursor/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .cursor/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git --path canvas-lms-api

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .gemini/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .gemini/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .github/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .github/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics canvas-lms-api --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/canvas-lms-api .opencode/skills/canvas-lms-api && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "canvas-lms-api" agent skill from https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics/tree/main/canvas-lms-api into .opencode/skills/canvas-lms-api/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canvas-lms-api", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: canvas-lms-api
GitHub stars: 158
Token cost: ~3.7k tokens
SKILL.md length: 733 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 15
Repo updated: Aug 21, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses whenever working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating or updating modules, pages, and files for a course, building sync scripts, managing course structure…

Works in 4 steps: Load course_structure.json → Upload all files first — build a mapping… → For each module → …
Working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating
SKILL.md covers Project Context, Setup & Authentication, Core API Patterns and Modules API, plus 7 more sections
Needs ACCESS_TOKEN

What it does

Canvas Lms API is an agent skill from aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics. Use this skill whenever working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating or updating modules, pages, and files for a course, building sync scripts, managing course structure programmatically, or uploading files and linking them in pages. Trigger this skill any time the user mentions Canvas, LMS, course sync, module pages, or file uploads to Canvas. Also use when writing or debugging any Python script that calls the Canvas API.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering File uploads and storage and REST APIs. It works with Python. The repository describes itself as: A collection of Skills for academics.

When your agent uses it

Working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating
Updating modules
Files for a course
Building sync scripts

Example prompts

“/canvas-lms-api”

Requirements

Python 3
A credential in ACCESS_TOKEN

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Load course_structure.json
Upload all files first — build a mapping of local_path → {file_id, file_url}
For each module
Log all actions with success/failure status

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8a8f112. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python, html and json).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
- ACCESS_TOKEN
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Canvas Lms API loads about 3.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 733 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~3.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 733 words (~3,724 tokens).

“A comprehensive reference for building Python scripts that interact with the Canvas LMS REST API, specifically for course content management: modules, pages, and file uploads.”

— opening of SKILL.md by aspi6246

name: canvas-lms-api

Outline of SKILL.md

Canvas LMS API Skill
Project Context
Setup & Authentication
config.py pattern
Standard headers and base URL
Getting a token
Core API Patterns
ALWAYS use "find or create" — never blindly create
Pagination
Modules API
Create a module
Update a module (e.g. set position)
Delete a module
Module Items API
Add a SubHeader (section heading)
Add a Page to a module
Add a File to a module
Reorder module items
Pages API
Create a page
Update an existing page (by slug)
Get a page
Find or create page pattern
File Upload API
Complete upload function
File Linking in HTML Pages
Course Structure JSON
HTML Page Template
File URL injection pattern
Sync Script Architecture

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in canvas-lms-api of aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8a8f112

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Canvas Lms API next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Questions about Canvas Lms API

What does Canvas Lms API do?

A skill your agent uses whenever working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating or updating modules, pages, and files for a course, building sync scripts, managing course structure…. Canvas Lms API is an agent skill from aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics. Use this skill whenever working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating or updating modules, pages, and files for a course, building sync scripts, managing course structure programmatically, or uploading files and linking them in pages.

When should I use Canvas Lms API?

Canvas Lms API fits situations like: working with the Canvas LMS REST API — including creating; updating modules; files for a course; building sync scripts.

How do I install Canvas Lms API in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (canvas-lms-api in aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics) into .claude/skills/canvas-lms-api in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Canvas Lms API in Codex?

Run `npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (canvas-lms-api in aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics) into .agents/skills/canvas-lms-api in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Canvas Lms API in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics --skill canvas-lms-api -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/canvas-lms-api, .gemini/skills/canvas-lms-api, .github/skills/canvas-lms-api and .opencode/skills/canvas-lms-api in your project.

What does Canvas Lms API need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Canvas Lms API needs credentials named ACCESS_TOKEN. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in ACCESS_TOKEN.

Does Canvas Lms API access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Canvas Lms API safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Canvas Lms API use?

No licence was found for Canvas Lms API or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Canvas Lms API use?

About 3.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Canvas Lms API?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Canvas Lms API: Google Cloud Storage Bucket Architect (google/skills, 21k stars), Zhihu Search (itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer, 18k stars), Fastcrud (benavlabs/fastcrud, 1.6k stars) and Cloudflare Email Service (hodgef/apiker, 127 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Canvas Lms API?

aspi6246 (a GitHub user) maintains it in aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics, which has 158 GitHub stars. The repository holds 15 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 21, 2026.

Source: aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

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What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

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