canvas-syllabus-coach

canvas-syllabus-coach is a skill for Claude Code from bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A course-content review assistant for Canvas, a platform used to manage online courses. It reads syllabi and key course pages, suggests improvements, and can apply approved edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews course descriptions, syllabi, and pages for clarity and completeness, then can update or create Canvas content when the user has the required permissions.
Why use it?
It helps instructors and course designers find unclear or missing information before students rely on it, while keeping edits subject to confirmation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit It reviews course descriptions, syllabi, and pages for clarity and completeness, then can update or create Canvas content when the user has the required permissions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/canvas-syllabus-coach
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-syllabus-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,523 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 $0.00086 $0.01523
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0878804470ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-syllabus-coach 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-syllabus-coach/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canvas Syllabus Coach

Learning designer skill for auditing and improving course syllabi and front pages in Canvas. Reads the current syllabus and course pages, proposes improvements, and optionally applies edits — one confirmed step at a time.

Prerequisites

  • Canvas MCP server must be running and connected.
  • Read-only review requires instructor, TA, or designer role.
  • Applying edits (update_course, update_page, create_page) requires instructor or designer role with content-editing permissions.
  • Changes to the course syllabus body are permanent and immediately visible to students — review every proposed edit before confirming.

Steps

1. Identify the Target Course

Ask the user which course to work with. Accept a course name, course code, or Canvas ID.

2. Read the Current Syllabus

Call get_course with the course ID to retrieve course metadata (name, course code, description, default view, and other settings).

Call get_syllabus with the course ID to retrieve the syllabus body HTML and the list of syllabus items (assignments and events).

Parse the syllabus HTML into readable sections. Identify which sections are present:

  • Course description — what the course is about
  • Learning objectives / outcomes — what students will be able to do
  • Required materials — textbooks, software, subscriptions
  • Grading policy — weights and breakdown
  • Late work / make-up policy — penalties and exceptions
  • Communication policy — response time expectations, preferred contact method
  • Academic integrity — plagiarism and AI use policies
  • Accessibility / accommodation — disability services contact
  • Course schedule — weekly topics or module structure

3. Read Key Course Pages (Optional)

If the course has a custom front page, call list_pages with the course ID to see all pages. Then call get_page with the course ID and the front page URL slug to read its content.

If relevant, read additional pages the user mentions (e.g., "review the resources page").

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 0878804470ac

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canvas-syllabus-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,523 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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