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.
npx skills add awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills --skill plan-coursegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skillsWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills/plan-course"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills/plan-course.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 | $0.00125 | $0.03915 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.01566 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00783 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00392 |
Grade A, and why
plan-course 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 1mo 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 — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Plan Course
Plan the top-level structure of a Canvas course: the module sequence across the year (or semester / trimester / term), each module's outcomes, and optionally the foundational pages that orient students to the course. Drafts only — no publishing.
This skill never publishes anything. Modules are created in Canvas's default unpublished state. Pages land as drafts. The teacher reviews and publishes manually.
When to use
A teacher is setting up a fresh Canvas course or restructuring an existing one at the course level. Common phrasings:
- "Plan the structure for DSGN 9 for next year"
- "Set up the modules for FSV 117 — 4 modules across the year"
- "I need to scaffold this course — Modules 1-5 covering [topic]"
- "Outline a course on AI for high schoolers"
When NOT to use
- Single module — that's
plan-module. plan-course creates a SEQUENCE of modules; if you only need one, use plan-module directly. - Adding a module to an existing course's existing structure — also
plan-module. - Lessons or assessments within an already-scaffolded course —
plan-lesson(UbD) /post-lesson-page/plan-assessment. - Creating the actual Canvas course itself — courses are usually provisioned by your school's Canvas account admin / SIS sync. This skill assumes the course shell already exists.
Prerequisites
- canvas-mcp v0.3.16 or later (needs
create_modulefrom v0.3.12 +get_school_infoandtitle_formatexposure onlist_page_templatesfrom v0.3.16). - An existing Canvas course shell (this skill doesn't create courses, only their contents).
- A school config (Franklin: bundled by default). The skill reads
academicCalendar.weeksPerYearif present, to inform module sizing.
Workflow
1. Capture the course context
Get these pieces from the teacher's initial request; ask only for what's missing:
- Canvas course — code or numeric id. Confirm by calling
get_course_details(course_identifier). Show the teacher the course name + code you found so they can catch a typo. - Subject / discipline — what the course is about (e.g., "Design 9", "AI for Designers", "Entrepreneurship"). Often inferable from the course name.
- Grade level — if not already obvious from the course code/name.
- Term type — year-long / semester / trimester / quarter. For Franklin, year-long is most common (35 weeks).
- Number of modules to plan — see "Default module count" below. The teacher tells you, or you propose.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 322 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 7a005e29799a
plan-course is a skill published in the GitHub repository awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 3,915 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.
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