Agent skill

Canva Design Feedback

by canva-sdks in canva-sdks/canva-skills

Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Canva Design Feedback

skills CLI

$ npx skills add canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback --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/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .claude/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .claude/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback

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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a codex

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback --agent codex

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .agents/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .agents/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a cursor

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback --agent cursor

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .cursor/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .cursor/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git --path plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback

--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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a gemini-cli

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback --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/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .gemini/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .gemini/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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 canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback

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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a github-copilot

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .github/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .github/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -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 canva-sdks/canva-skills canva-design-feedback --agent opencode

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

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback .opencode/skills/canva-design-feedback && 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 "canva-design-feedback" agent skill from https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback into .opencode/skills/canva-design-feedback/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "canva-design-feedback", 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: canva-design-feedback
GitHub stars: 115
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 503 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 10
Repo updated: Jun 30, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility.

Works in 5 steps: Resolve the design → Read the design → Evaluate across dimensions → …
The user asks to review my design
SKILL.md covers What you can actually read…, Workflow and Rules
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Canva Design Feedback is an agent skill from canva-sdks/canva-skills. Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility. Read-only; makes no changes to the design. Use when the user asks to "review my design", "give me feedback on this", "critique my deck/poster/flyer", "how can I improve this design", or "what's wrong with this slide".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Media & Creative, covering Design review and critique, Plain language and style rules and Slides and decks. It works with Canva. The repository describes itself as: Ready-to-use Canva Skills that improve creative workflows using the Canva Connector. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

The user asks to review my design
Give me feedback on this
Critique my deck/poster/flyer
How can I improve this design

Example prompts

“review my design”
“give me feedback on this”
“critique my deck/poster/flyer”
“/canva-design-feedback”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

Resolve the design
Read the design
Evaluate across dimensions
Return structured feedback
Offer to act

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b56291e. 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.
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 no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Canva Design Feedback loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 503 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

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

The full file from canva-sdks/canva-skills at commit b56291e, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© canva-sdks). 503 words, ~1,171 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/canva-design-feedback/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: canva-design-feedback
description: Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility. Read-only; makes no changes to the design. Use when the user asks to "review my design", "give me feedback on this", "critique my deck/poster/flyer", "how can I improve this design", or "what's wrong with this slide".

Get Design Feedback

Act as a design reviewer: read the design as it actually appears, then return concrete, prioritised feedback the user can act on. This skill is read-only — it never edits the design. When the user wants the changes made, hand off to canva-edit-design or canva-implement-feedback.

What you can actually read (and the gap to know about)

Canva:get-design-content returns text (richtexts) only — good for copy, headings, and wording, but it does NOT include colors, fonts, sizes, or element positions.
Canva:get-design-thumbnail gives you the rendered image — this is how you "see" layout, hierarchy, balance, color, and contrast. Always pull this; visual critique depends on it.
Element positions, sizes, and text are reliably available from a read-only editing transaction: Canva:start-editing-transaction, inspect the returned richtexts/fills, then Canva:cancel-editing-transaction (never commit — you are not changing anything). Use this for layout/spacing/alignment detail.
Colors and fonts are NOT reliably exposed. Tested: the transaction payload often returns only text + position + dimension per element, with no color or font attributes. So treat the thumbnail as the primary source for any color, contrast, or typography judgement, and treat transaction style data as best-effort (use it when present, don't depend on it). Never report a specific hex/font as fact unless the payload actually contained it.

Workflow

Step 1: Resolve the design

Short link → Canva:resolve-shortlink; full URL → extract the ID; raw D... ID → use directly; otherwise ask.

Step 2: Read the design

Canva:get-design for title and page count.
Canva:get-design-thumbnail (and/or Canva:get-design-pages) to see each page.
Canva:get-design-content for the text.
Optional (typography/color detail): read-only transaction as described above, then cancel it.

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Step 3: Evaluate across dimensions

Assess the design against these lenses. Skip any that don't apply to the design type:

Visual hierarchy — does the eye land on the most important thing first? Title/subtitle/body contrast.
Layout & spacing — alignment, balance, crowding, consistent margins/gutters.
Copy & messaging — clarity, length, tone, typos, jargon, a single clear takeaway per page.
Consistency — repeated fonts, sizes, colors, and spacing across pages.
Readability & contrast — text size vs. viewing context, text-on-image legibility, color contrast.
Accessibility — contrast ratios, alt text, text not conveyed by color alone.
Fit for purpose — does it suit the stated channel/audience (a slide ≠ an Instagram post ≠ a flyer)?

Step 4: Return structured feedback

Organise findings by page, each with a severity and a concrete fix:

## Feedback — "<design title>" (N pages)

### Top priorities
1. [High] Page 2 — Title competes with the body text (same size/weight).
   Fix: bump the title to ~1.5× and bold it so it reads first.
2. [High] Page 4 — White caption over a light photo is hard to read.
   Fix: darken the image or add a scrim; or move the caption to a solid band.

### Page-by-page
**Page 1** — [Med] Three different accent colors; pick one. [Low] "recieve" → "receive".
**Page 2** — ...

### What's working
- Consistent margins; strong cover image.

Use severities High / Med / Low. Lead with the few highest-impact items, then the per-page detail. Be specific and located (page + element), not generic ("make it pop").

Step 5: Offer to act

End by offering to implement the API-fixable items via canva-edit-design, and note which items need manual work in Canva (e.g. font-family or background changes the API can't touch — see canva-edit-design for the full CANNOT list).

Rules

Never edit or commit anything — this skill is strictly read-only. If you open a transaction to inspect, always cancel-editing-transaction.
Ground every point in something you actually observed in the thumbnail or content — no generic advice.
Prioritise. A ranked shortlist beats an exhaustive list the user won't read.
Be candid but constructive; always pair a problem with a specific fix.

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback of canva-sdks/canva-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b56291e

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Questions about Canva Design Feedback

What does Canva Design Feedback do?

Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility. Canva Design Feedback is an agent skill from canva-sdks/canva-skills. Read a Canva design and return structured, actionable design feedback — visual hierarchy, copy/messaging, layout & spacing, consistency, readability, and accessibility.

When should I use Canva Design Feedback?

Canva Design Feedback fits situations like: the user asks to review my design; give me feedback on this; critique my deck/poster/flyer; how can I improve this design.

How do I install Canva Design Feedback in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback in canva-sdks/canva-skills) into .claude/skills/canva-design-feedback in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Canva Design Feedback in Codex?

Run `npx skills add canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/canva/skills/get-design-feedback in canva-sdks/canva-skills) into .agents/skills/canva-design-feedback in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Canva Design Feedback 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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-design-feedback -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/canva-design-feedback, .gemini/skills/canva-design-feedback, .github/skills/canva-design-feedback and .opencode/skills/canva-design-feedback in your project.

What does Canva Design Feedback need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Canva Design Feedback is instructions for the agent only.

Does Canva Design Feedback 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 Canva Design Feedback 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 Canva Design Feedback use?

Canva Design Feedback is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Canva Design Feedback use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Canva Design Feedback?

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Who maintains Canva Design Feedback?

canva-sdks (a GitHub organization) maintains it in canva-sdks/canva-skills, which has 115 GitHub stars. The repository holds 10 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 30, 2026.

Source: canva-sdks/canva-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Canva Design Feedback

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Get Design Feedback

What you can actually read (and the gap to know about)

Workflow

Step 1: Resolve the design

Step 2: Read the design

Step 3: Evaluate across dimensions

Step 4: Return structured feedback

Step 5: Offer to act

Rules

Files

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