canvas-course-qc

canvas-course-qc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,330 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality checklist for Canvas, a web platform used to build and run courses. It reviews course content such as modules, pages, assignments, rubrics, and publication status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a Canvas course from its syllabus through its modules and assignments, then produce a prioritised list of issues to fix.
Why use it?
It helps find missing, empty, unpublished, out-of-order, or incomplete course items before students use the course. It can also audit a course that is already live.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the canvas-lms-mcp plugin — 16 skills, 5 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a Canvas course from its syllabus through its modules and assignments, then produce a prioritised list of issues to fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/canvas-course-qc
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp --skill canvas-course-qc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install canvas-lms-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 5 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,330 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00083 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00133

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4757e4a4e43b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-course-qc 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.

skills/canvas-course-qc/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canvas Course QC

Systematically walk a Canvas course from top to bottom — syllabus, modules, pages, assignments, and rubrics — and produce a prioritised list of issues to fix before publication.

Prerequisites

  • Canvas MCP server must be running and connected.
  • You must have instructor, designer, or admin role in the target course.
  • The course may be unpublished — this skill reads draft content.

Steps

1. Load Course Metadata

Call get_course with the course ID to retrieve:

  • Course name and code
  • Publication status (workflow_state: unpublished, available, completed)
  • Start and end dates
  • Default view (modules, syllabus, etc.)

Report the publication status upfront — if the course is already live, note that this is a post-launch audit.

2. Check the Syllabus

Call get_syllabus for the course. Check:

  • Is the syllabus body non-empty?
  • Does it contain placeholder text (e.g. "TBD", "Coming soon", "Lorem ipsum")?
  • Are expected sections present (course description, grading policy, contact info)?

Flag any missing or placeholder syllabus content.

3. Walk the Module Structure

Call list_modules for the course to get all modules. For each module:

  1. Call get_module (with the module ID) to get its publication state, unlock date, and prerequisite chain.
  2. Call list_module_items (with the course ID and module ID) to get the full item list.

For each module record:

  • Flag modules that are empty (zero items)
  • Flag modules that are unpublished if the course is live
  • Flag modules with a broken prerequisite (prerequisite module ID not in the module list)
  • Note the item count and item types (page, assignment, quiz, file, external URL)

4. Check Pages

From the module items collected in Step 3, identify items of type Page. For each page item:

Call get_page (with the course ID and page URL or slug from the module item) to retrieve its content and publication state.

Check for:

  • Unpublished pages in a published module (students cannot see them)
  • Empty body — page with no content
  • Placeholder text — same heuristic as the syllabus check
  • Broken relative links — look for href="/courses/ patterns that reference a different course ID

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 4757e4a4e43b

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canvas-course-qc is a skill published in the GitHub repository bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,330 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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