canvas-present

A builder for presentation-mode canvases in the Advanced Canvas plugin. It creates slide-sized groups connected in order so you can move through them with the arrow keys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create deck or storyboard presentations with title, overview, content, summary, and closing slides.
Why use it?
It turns a topic into a structured slide canvas with consistent dimensions and navigation. It can also include images, full-text slides, and script notes for video planning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agricidaniel/claude-canvas/canvas-present
Any agent
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas --skill canvas-present
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00093 $0.01310
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00131

Measured yesterday against content hash 75de597e7caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-present 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/canvas-present/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

canvas-present: Presentation Canvas Builder

Read ../canvas/references/presentation-spec.md for slide dimensions, navigation edges, layout patterns, and color coding. Read ../canvas/references/performance-guide.md for node limits.


Operations

Build Presentation (/canvas present [topic])

Create a complete presentation canvas from a topic description.

Workflow:

  1. Gather context: Ask the user for:

    • Topic/title (required)
    • Number of slides (default: 6, recommend 6-10)
    • Style: deck (1200×675 clean) or storyboard (1920×1080 with script column)
    • Whether to generate images for slides (requires /banana)
  2. Generate slide structure: Claude writes the content for each slide:

    • Slide 1: Title slide (title, subtitle, date)
    • Slide 2: Agenda/overview
    • Slides 3-N-2: Content slides (key points, data, findings)
    • Slide N-1: Key takeaway / summary
    • Slide N: Next steps / closing
  3. Create the canvas:

    a. Start from the presentation template:

    python3 scripts/canvas_template.py presentation [output_path] \
      --param title="[topic]" --param slide_count=[N]
    

    b. Edit each slide's text node with the generated content using the Edit tool.

    c. If images requested: generate via /banana and add as file nodes inside slide groups.

    d. If storyboard style: add script annotation text nodes (width=500) to the right of each slide group.

  4. Color-code slides per the spec:

    • Title/close: "6" (purple)
    • Content: "4" (green)
    • Key insight: "5" (cyan)
    • Action items: "2" (orange)
  5. Validate:

    python3 scripts/canvas_validate.py [output_path]
    
  6. Report: "Created [N]-slide presentation at [path]. Open in Obsidian with Advanced Canvas to navigate with arrow keys."


Build from Notes (/canvas present from [notes])

Create a presentation from existing markdown files or wiki pages.

Workflow:

  1. Find source notes: Search for the specified files. If in a claude-obsidian vault, use wiki/ paths. Otherwise search the current directory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 154 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 75de597e7caa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

canvas-present is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas (288 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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