canvas

canvas is a command for Claude Code from CiselyAI/agency-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only command that turns Cisely graph data into Jobs-to-be-Done and a Value Proposition Canvas for a persona. Jobs-to-Be-Done describe what someone is trying to accomplish; a Value Proposition Canvas compares those needs with an organisation’s response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a persona’s goals, pains, gains, stakeholders, and related business responses. It requires a connected Cisely MCP and a clear persona target.
Why use it?
It helps you understand a persona’s needs and compare them with strategies, initiatives, and metrics already recorded in Cisely, without changing the graph.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the cisely plugin — 2 skills, 3 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a persona’s goals, pains, gains, stakeholders, and related business responses. It requires a connected Cisely MCP and a clear persona target.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ciselyai/agency-skills/canvas
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CiselyAI/agency-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cisely, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 commands, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for canvas

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ciselyai/agency-skills/canvas.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/ciselyai/agency-skills/canvas)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ciselyai/agency-skills/canvas"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ciselyai/agency-skills/canvas.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00623
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 8d ago against content hash 63d47097c38c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/canvas.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Synthesize Jobs-to-be-Done and a Value Proposition Canvas for a persona/stakeholder, as a read-only view derived from the Cisely graph. Do not author or change anything. Follow the cisely-agency-model skill and its references/synthesis.md. Target: $ARGUMENTS.

  1. Confirm the MCP is connected (mcp__cisely__*); if not, tell the user to run /mcpcisely.

  2. Resolve the target. If $ARGUMENTS is empty or ambiguous, ListPersonas and ask the user which persona (and optionally which operating context / stakeholder) to chart.

  3. Gather the demand sideGetPersona; its goals (ListGoals); its stakeholders (ListStakeholders) and their expectations (ListExpectations); follow PROXIES_FOR from each expectation to its goal; note each expectation's valence (PAIN/GAIN) and articulation.

  4. Gather the response side — the strategies serving this persona/context, their initiatives (ListInitiatives), and the metrics measuring those expectations/initiatives (ListMetrics).

  5. Render Jobs-to-be-Done — one job story per defined expectation: "When <operating context>, I want to <expectation>, so I can <goal>." Flag latent/emerging expectations as not-yet-crisp jobs (a discovery opportunity).

  6. Render the Value Proposition Canvas:

    • Customer profile — Jobs (goals), Pains (PAIN-valence expectations), Gains (GAIN-valence).
    • Value map — Products/services & pain relievers/gain creators (the initiatives), and the metrics that track them.
    • Fit — for each committed expectation: is there an initiative addressing it and a metric showing it's met? Mark good fit, gaps (committed but unaddressed/unmeasured), and deliberate non-fit (expectations the strategy declined — a decision, not a hole).
  7. Cite provenance. For each fragment, name the source node and give its https://app.cisely.dev/concise/... link, so the user can click through and nothing in the view can silently disagree with the graph.

Note that this is a living view: it re-renders as the model changes. Offer /cisely:review for the whole-model health check, or /cisely:model to fill a gap the canvas exposed.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 41 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 63d47097c38c

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canvas is a command published in the GitHub repository CiselyAI/agency-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.