canva-cli

canva-cli is a skill for Claude Code from canva-sdks/canva-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for using Canva's REST API, which lets programs work with Canva designs, folders, assets, and exports. It connects local files and scripts to Canva rather than providing purely conversational design help.

In plain words
What is it for?
Automating Canva resource and export workflows from a terminal or coding agent.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform supported Canva operations manually in the web interface or write direct API requests yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the canva plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Automating Canva resource and export workflows from a terminal or coding agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canva, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00054 $0.00940
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00376
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5d6ad867acb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canva-cli 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 2d 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.

plugins/canva/skills/cli/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canva CLI

Use the Canva CLI when a request requires direct, programmatic interaction with Canva or local files. Do not use it for purely conversational design work that is better handled through Canva's AI-assisted workflows.

Set up the CLI when needed

Before using the CLI, check whether canva --version succeeds.

If the CLI is unavailable, explain that it requires Node.js v24 and npm v11. Install it only when the user has explicitly requested or approved installation:

npm install -g @canva/cli@latest

Before accessing Canva resources, ensure the intended user is logged in:

canva login

Login opens a browser authorization flow and requires the user to approve access. In a remote or headless environment, use canva login --mode manual. Do not request, print, inspect, or copy the locally stored auth token. When multiple Canva accounts are relevant, require the user to identify the intended profile before running commands against it. Use --profile for a one-off command rather than changing the active profile unless the user asks to switch it.

Find the right operation

Do not guess commands, flags, or request shapes.

  • Start with canva api --help, then narrow by resource group.
  • Use canva api <group> <command> --help to inspect flags.
  • Use canva api describe <group> <command> when the command contract is needed as JSON.
  • CLI commands follow REST API operation names, not URL paths.
  • Prefer documented flags. Use --body @file.json only when a nested JSON payload cannot be expressed with flags.

Authenticate and validate

  • Commands act as the logged-in Canva account. Run canva login when needed.
  • If a request returns MISSING_SCOPE, log in again before retrying.
  • Before a command that creates, changes, or uploads content, run it with --dry-run when available to validate its arguments and login without making the API request.
  • Ensure the target design, folder, asset, or other resource is unambiguous before making a state-changing request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 2d ago First seen · 103 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5d6ad867acb5

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canva-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository canva-sdks/canva-skills (126 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-17.

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