api-canvas

api-canvas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server. It costs 85 tokens per session (7,799 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A reference and workflow for using DataCanvas, a SQL workspace for working with tables from APIs, backed by DuckDB, a local database engine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to acquire data from upstream APIs, keep registered tables for a set time, run ad-hoc SQL analysis, and export results.
Why use it?
It provides a way to register API data as tables, query several tables with SQL, and export the results instead of handling each response separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the crossref-mcp-server plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server/api-canvas
Any agent
npx skills add cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server --skill api-canvas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install crossref-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 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 api-canvas

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server/api-canvas"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server/api-canvas.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,799 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00085 $0.07799
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.03900
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00780

Measured 3d ago against content hash a15da8c76763, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-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 3d 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/api-canvas/SKILL.md · 556 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 556 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A a15da8c76763

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api-canvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 7,799 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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