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-lessongit 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-lesson"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills/plan-lesson.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 | $0.00121 | $0.03132 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00060 | $0.01566 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00626 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00313 |
Grade A, and why
plan-lesson 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Plan Lesson
Think a single class session through using Understanding by Design (UbD) — start with what students should understand, design how you'll know they got there, then build the activities that get them there. Lesson-scaled: 1–2 learning targets, one formative check, one class arc. Produces a UbD brief in chat; offers handoff to post-lesson-page when the teacher's ready to materialize it on Canvas.
This skill writes nothing to Canvas. It's a pedagogical thinking partner. Posting is a separate skill (
post-lesson-page) the teacher can run once the brief is locked.
When to use
A teacher is figuring out what to teach for a single class session and wants a framework. Common phrasings:
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"Plan a lesson on the water cycle for DSGN 9 — help me think through it"
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"I'm teaching prototyping tomorrow, not sure how to structure it"
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"Design a lesson on parallel circuits using UbD"
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"What's a good way to frame this watershed lesson?"
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"Help me think backwards from what I want students to understand"
When NOT to use
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The teacher already knows what they're teaching and just wants it on Canvas. That's
post-lesson-page. Don't make them think backwards if they don't want to. -
Multi-class units or modules. That's
plan-module(which has its own UbD path scaled to multi-lesson arcs). -
Assessments / tests / projects. That's
plan-assessmentfor the page,post-quizfor the actual Canvas Quiz object. -
Whole-course scaffolding. That's
plan-course.
Prerequisites
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canvas-mcp v0.3.16 or later installed if you want school defaults (class period length, current academic week) pulled via
get_school_info. The skill works without canvas-mcp for pure ideation, but will have to ask the teacher for period length and module context every time. -
No Canvas writes happen in this skill. No
published: falseworry, no draft creation — this is a chat-only working document.
Workflow
1. Establish context
Confirm with the teacher (asking only for what's missing):
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 · 249 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A e3e4124b9394
plan-lesson is a skill published in the GitHub repository awesome-town/canvas-mcp-skills (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 3,132 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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