amazon-nova-canvas

amazon-nova-canvas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (7,911 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to generating and editing images with Amazon Nova Canvas through Amazon Bedrock, AWS's cloud service for using AI models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan Nova Canvas integrations, validate requests, handle returned image data, and manage retries and production migration checks.
Why use it?
It helps structure image-generation requests and check access, costs, model availability, and the model's approaching end of life.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to plan Nova Canvas integrations, validate requests, handle returned image data, and manage retries and production migration checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/amazon-nova-canvas
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 calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill amazon-nova-canvas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,911 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00100 $0.07911
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.03955
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01582
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00791

Measured 9d ago against content hash 94a11a2ab9d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amazon-nova-canvas 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 9d 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/providers/image-generation/amazon-nova-canvas/SKILL.md · 592 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 592 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amazon Nova Canvas

Build against the native Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel API. Treat every inference as a paid, synchronous image-generation operation and preserve the returned bytes unchanged.

Start with the lifecycle gate

As verified on 2026-07-09, AWS lists amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0 as Legacy in its supported Regions and gives it an end-of-life date of 2026-09-30. Do not start a new production dependency on it. New customers cannot use Legacy models; existing customers may lose access after 15 days of inactivity. On or soon after EOL, requests fail unless the customer has a documented private arrangement with the provider. Stakeholder acceptance does not extend service availability.

AWS also forbids new fine-tuning jobs and new Provisioned Throughput endpoints after a foundation model enters Legacy. Public extended access, when offered, may carry higher provider-set pricing. Before any continued use by an eligible existing customer:

  1. Query GetFoundationModel or ListFoundationModels in the intended Region.
  2. Confirm the account is still eligible and active, verify the current billing rate, and make a separately authorized low-cost canary only before EOL or under a documented private arrangement when paid inference is allowed.
  3. Recheck the Nova Canvas model page for lifecycle, endpoint, Region, and successor information.
  4. Refuse to guess a replacement model ID. Record a named migration owner and cutover date.

Current production facts (verified 2026-07-09):

Item Value
Base model ID amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0
Runtime bedrock-runtime
API Native synchronous InvokeModel; not Converse, Responses, Chat Completions, or Bedrock Mantle
Inference route In-Region only; no geo or global inference profile
Base-model service tier Standard only
Base-model provisioned throughput Not supported
In-Region availability us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-northeast-1
Prompt language English
Inputs / output Text and image / image
Lifecycle Legacy in all currently supported Regions; EOL 2026-09-30

Read the full file on GitHub · 592 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 592 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 94a11a2ab9d1

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amazon-nova-canvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 7,911 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 2026-09-03.

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