canva-translate-design

canva-translate-design is a skill for Claude Code from canva-sdks/canva-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (665 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Translation of all text in a Canva design into another language, saved as a new copy. Canva is a web-based design tool for creating visual content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making language versions of presentations, posters, social posts, and other Canva designs.
Why use it?
It avoids copying text out of every text box and protects the original design from being changed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the canva plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Making language versions of presentations, posters, social posts, and other Canva designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/design-translation
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 canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill design-translation
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 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 665 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 $0.00065 $0.00665
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 13d ago against content hash c10b609033f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canva-translate-design 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 13d 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/inactive-skills/design-translation/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canva Translate

Translate all text elements in a Canva design to a target language, creating a new copy with translated content.

Workflow

1. Locate the Design

If user provides a design ID directly (typically starts with D, e.g. DABcd1234ef), use that as the design identifier; do not pass it to Canva:search-designs (search is for titles, not IDs).

If user provides a URL: Extract the design ID from the URL (format: https://www.canva.com/design/{design_id}/...).

If user provides a name: Use Canva:search-designs to find the design by title. If multiple matches, ask user to clarify.

2. Create a Translated Copy

Use Canva:resize-design with the same dimensions to create a copy. This preserves the original design untouched.

3. Start Editing Transaction

Use Canva:start-editing-transaction on the new copy to get:

  • transaction_id for making edits
  • All text elements with their element_id and current text content

4. Translate Text

For each text element returned:

  1. Translate the text to the target language (use Claude's translation capability)
  2. Preserve formatting cues (line breaks, emphasis patterns)
  3. Keep proper nouns, brand names, and technical terms as appropriate

5. Apply Translations

Use Canva:perform-editing-operations with replace_text operations for all translated elements. Batch all replacements in a single call.

Also update the design title to indicate the language (e.g., append " (Spanish)" or use translated title).

6. Commit Changes

After showing the user the translated preview thumbnail:

  1. Ask for explicit approval to save
  2. Use Canva:commit-editing-transaction to finalize
  3. Provide the link to the new translated design

Example Interaction

User: Translate my "Summer Sale Poster" to French

Steps:

  1. Search: Canva:search-designs with query "Summer Sale Poster"
  2. Copy: Canva:resize-design to create duplicate
  3. Edit: Canva:start-editing-transaction on copy
  4. Translate all text elements to French
  5. Apply: Canva:perform-editing-operations with all replace_text operations
  6. Show preview, get approval, commit

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 13d ago First seen · 68 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A c10b609033f5

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canva-translate-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository canva-sdks/canva-skills (94 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 665 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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