Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00091 | $0.01525 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00046 | $0.00763 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00305 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00153 |
Grade A, and why
canvas-discussion-facilitator 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Canvas Discussion Facilitator
Educator skill for managing course discussion boards: browse topics, read threaded entries, post replies, create new topics, and monitor announcement activity — all from your agent session.
Prerequisites
- Canvas MCP server must be running and connected.
- You must have instructor, TA, or student role in the target course (read access). Creating or updating topics requires instructor or TA role.
- Student names and post content are visible in output — only run this in a private or educator-only session when reviewing discussion entries.
Tool naming note
get_discussion in canvas-lms-mcp returns the full topic details and inline discussion entries in a single call. There is no separate list_discussion_entries tool — all thread content comes through get_discussion. If you search for list_discussion_entries you will not find it; use get_discussion instead.
Steps
1. Identify the Target Course
Ask the user which course's discussions to work with. Accept a course name, course code, or Canvas ID.
If unclear, call list_discussions with the course ID — it will fail with a 404 if the course ID is wrong, which surfaces the issue early.
2. Choose a Mode
Ask the user what they want to do:
| Mode | When to use |
|---|---|
| Browse topics | See all active discussion topics at a glance |
| Read a thread | Read the entries in a specific topic |
| Check announcements | View instructor announcements |
| Post a reply | Add an entry to an existing discussion |
| Create a topic | Open a new discussion topic |
3A. Browse Topics
Call list_discussions with the course ID. This returns all discussion topics in the course with their title, type (discussion_topic or announcement), reply count, unread count, and posting status.
Present a summary table:
Discussions — [Course Name]
OPEN TOPICS
• "Week 3 Reflection" — 34 replies, 5 unread, posted by Prof. Lee
• "Reading Questions Ch. 4" — 12 replies, 0 unread, posted by TA Park
• "Introduce Yourself" — 28 replies, 0 unread
CLOSED / LOCKED
• "Week 1 Check-in" — 19 replies (locked)
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 150 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 35aacdcfa06b
canvas-discussion-facilitator is a skill published in the GitHub repository bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,525 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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