What is canvas-lecture-transcribe?

A tool for finding Canvas lecture recordings and turning them into text. Canvas is a learning platform, and a transcript is a written version of what was said in a recording.

Finding a course recording, transcribing it, and then creating summaries, study notes, or answers from the transcript.

It helps students catch up on recorded classes without watching the entire video and makes the material searchable.

canvas-lecture-transcribe — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Ait0u5h

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ait0u5hi/canvas-scholar-mcp

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/ait0u5hi/canvas-scholar-mcp/canvas-lecture-transcribe

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 507 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00100	$0.00507
Opus 5	$0.00050	$0.00253
Sonnet 5	$0.00020	$0.00101
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00051

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3ff218006e6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-lecture-transcribe 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 11d 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.

skills/canvas-lecture-transcribe/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Canvas lecture transcribe

Locate a class recording via Canvas, then run the companion script to transcribe it. The MCP server only finds the recording; the script does the download + transcription (it's heavy media work kept out of the read-only server).

Steps

Identify the course (call canvas_list_courses for the id if needed).
Call canvas_list_conferences(courseId) and find the session the student means. Look for a recording with show_to_students: true and a playback URL (recording_url / playback / a .../presentation/... or .../capture/ link). If the session is still live or the recording hasn't processed yet, tell the student it isn't ready.
Run the companion script with that URL:
```
node scripts/transcribe-lecture.mjs "<recording playback URL>" --out lecture.txt
```
If it can't auto-locate the media, tell the student to open the playback page, find the audio/video request in their browser's Network tab, and re-run with --media-url "<that URL>".
Read the resulting transcript file and do what the student asked — summarize, pull key points, make study notes, or answer questions from it.

Prerequisites (tell the student if missing)

ffmpeg on PATH.
A whisper CLI: whisper.cpp (whisper-cli/main + WHISPER_MODEL=/path/ggml-*.bin) or OpenAI whisper. Override with WHISPER_CMD.

Lecture recordings include the instructor's and classmates' voices. Transcribe for the student's own study. Do not redistribute the transcript or feed other people's contributions into shared or training corpora.

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.

11d ago First seen · 47 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 3ff218006e6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

canvas-lecture-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ait0u5hi/canvas-scholar-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 507 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 2026-08-31.

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