Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.08828 | $0.08828 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03531 | $0.03531 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01766 | $0.01766 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00883 | $0.00883 |
Grade A, and why
canvas-mcp AGENTS.md 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 642 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Canvas MCP - AI Agent Guide
This guide helps AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Zed, Windsurf, and other MCP clients) effectively use the Canvas MCP server.
Quick Start
Canvas MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that bridges AI assistants with Canvas Learning Management System. It provides tools for students to track their academic work and for educators to manage courses, grade assignments, and communicate with students.
Key capability: The server supports both traditional MCP tool calls and a code execution API. Process bulk operations locally without loading every item into the model’s context.
Authentication
All tools require a valid Canvas API token.
Note: The public hosted server (
mcp.illinihunt.org) has been retired — a public MCP endpoint without an access gate would expose the code-execution tool. Use local (self-hosted) mode below. The HTTP/streamable transport remains supported for self-hosting behind your own authentication; for a shared institutional deployment, see deploy/azure/.
Local (Self-Hosted)
Configure credentials in the MCP server's .env file:
CANVAS_API_TOKEN=your_token_here
CANVAS_API_URL=https://your-institution.instructure.com/api/v1
Students and educators use the same server but have access to different tools based on Canvas API permissions.
Tool Profile (Optional)
Reduce tool overhead by setting a role-based profile. Only tools relevant to the selected role are registered:
# In .env:
CANVAS_ROLE=student # 51 tools by default (student + shared), 62 with every student write tool enabled
CANVAS_ROLE=educator # 96 tools by default, 98 with every gated tool enabled
CANVAS_ROLE=all # Default profile; 115 tools by default, 128 with all feature-gated tools enabled
Or via CLI flag: canvas-mcp-server --role student (CLI flag takes precedence over env var).
Tool Categories
Student Tools
Personal academic tracking uses Canvas "self" endpoints. Shared course-content tools still follow the permissions Canvas grants the student's account.
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.
- 12d ago Changed · +7 lines · +96 tokens per session 07e58b57383e
- 14d ago Changed · +27 lines · +493 tokens per session 4b1063c58ec1
- 16d ago Changed · +2 lines · +23 tokens per session 6e84a9f6ebe9
- 17d ago Changed · +24 tokens per session f0bcfe2e403b
- 28d ago Changed · +9 lines · +183 tokens per session 75e26a5cc67c
- 29d ago Changed · +5 lines · +79 tokens per session b6bcc097c794
- 1mo ago Changed · +76 lines · +1,537 tokens per session ebf770c028a1
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +61 tokens per session bdfe6929ced1
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +34 tokens per session 7a94c7f52439
- 1mo ago First seen · 513 lines · 6,298 tokens per session scan A cc20b972a8a4
canvas-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp (317 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8,828 tokens to every session, about $0.0353 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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