canva-edit-design

canva-edit-design is a skill for Claude Code from canva-sdks/canva-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,301 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Editing changes to an existing Canva design, such as text, images, videos, layout, and title. Canva is a web-based design tool for creating visual content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fixing wording, translating or reformatting text, replacing media, moving or resizing elements, and updating a design title.
Why use it?
It avoids making these changes one by one by hand while keeping edits as a draft until they are approved and saved.

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 Fixing wording, translating or reformatting text, replacing media, moving or resizing elements, and updating a design title.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/edit-design
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 edit-design
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for canva-edit-design

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/edit-design.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/edit-design)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/edit-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/canva-sdks/canva-skills/edit-design.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,301 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 $0.00103 $0.01301
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 842eeec8f89b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canva-edit-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 8d 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/edit-design/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canva Design Editing

The canonical, safe way to apply edits to an existing Canva design. Every Canva skill that mutates a design should follow this exact protocol: start a transaction → perform operations → commit (with approval). Changes are draft-only until committed and are PERMANENTLY LOST if not committed.

The Transaction Protocol (always these steps, in order)

  1. Canva:start-editing-transaction — pass the design_id. Remember the returned transaction_id and the pages array; both are required by later calls. ALWAYS show the user the thumbnail(s) returned here.
  2. Canva:perform-editing-operations — apply edits. Pass the transaction_id, the pages array from the previous response, the page_index of the first page being changed, and an operations array. Batch multiple operations into a single call wherever possible.
  3. Canva:commit-editing-transaction — save. See the approval gate below. After committing, the transaction_id is invalid; a new edit needs a new transaction.
  4. Canva:cancel-editing-transaction — discard the draft instead of saving (e.g. the user rejects the preview, or you opened a transaction only to inspect the design).

Capabilities — what the API CAN and CANNOT do

CAN (operations on perform-editing-operations)

  • Text content: replace_text (whole element), find_and_replace_text (substring)
  • Text formatting (format_text): font size, weight (normal/bold), style (normal/italic), color, alignment, line height, underline, strikethrough, links, list level/marker
  • Media: update_fill (replace image/video), insert_fill (add image/video), delete_element
  • Layout: position_element, resize_element
  • Metadata: update_title
  • Autofill mapping: update_autofill_field (fixed-page designs only)

CANNOT

  • Change font family/typeface (only size, weight, style)
  • Add new text elements (you can only insert media, not new text boxes)
  • Change background colors or gradients
  • Add, remove, or reorder pages/slides
  • Modify animations, transitions, or element opacity (except on newly inserted fills)
  • Group/ungroup elements, or restyle shapes (only text inside shapes is editable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 842eeec8f89b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

canva-edit-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository canva-sdks/canva-skills (91 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,301 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 2026-08-30.

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