canvas

canvas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elizaOS/eliza. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,474 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for showing HTML web content on connected Mac, iOS, or Android devices. It can display pages, games, dashboards, visualizations, and interactive demos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to show generated HTML, navigate a device to a URL, hide or display content, and test live-reloading previews on connected devices.
Why use it?
It lets you preview or present web content on another connected screen without manually opening the page there.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/you/clawd/canvas.

Good fit Use it to show generated HTML, navigate a device to a URL, hide or display content, and test live-reloading previews on connected devices.

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About the project

elizaOS is an open-source TypeScript framework and product stack for building and running autonomous AI agents. Developers use its runtime, application, command-line tool, cloud services, native bridges, and plugins to create agent-based software. The catalogue entries provide skills, commands, instructions, and rules for working with this monorepo and its agent ecosystem.

elizaOS/eliza · 19,313 stars · on GitHub · elizaresearch.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,474 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00091 $0.01474
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00147

Measured 11d ago against content hash 85df05546fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. Test URL directly: `curl http://<hostname>:18793/__otto__/canvas/<file>.html`
packages/skills/skills/canvas/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canvas Skill

Display HTML content on connected Otto nodes (Mac app, iOS, Android).

Overview

The canvas tool lets you present web content on any connected node's canvas view. Great for:

  • Displaying games, visualizations, dashboards
  • Showing generated HTML content
  • Interactive demos

How It Works

Architecture

┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐
│  Canvas Host    │────▶│   Node Bridge    │────▶│  Node App   │
│  (HTTP Server)  │     │  (TCP Server)    │     │ (Mac/iOS/   │
│  Port 18793     │     │  Port 18790      │     │  Android)   │
└─────────────────┘     └──────────────────┘     └─────────────┘
  1. Canvas Host Server: Serves static HTML/CSS/JS files from canvasHost.root directory
  2. Node Bridge: Communicates canvas URLs to connected nodes
  3. Node Apps: Render the content in a WebView

Tailscale Integration

The canvas host server binds based on gateway.bind setting:

Bind Mode Server Binds To Canvas URL Uses
loopback 127.0.0.1 localhost (local only)
lan LAN interface LAN IP address
tailnet Tailscale interface Tailscale hostname
auto Best available Tailscale > LAN > loopback

Key insight: The canvasHostHostForBridge is derived from bridgeHost. When bound to Tailscale, nodes receive URLs like:

http://<tailscale-hostname>:18793/__otto__/canvas/<file>.html

This is why localhost URLs don't work - the node receives the Tailscale hostname from the bridge!

Actions

Action Description
present Show canvas with optional target URL
hide Hide the canvas
navigate Navigate to a new URL
eval Execute JavaScript in the canvas
snapshot Capture screenshot of canvas

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 11d ago First seen · 204 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 85df05546fd5

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canvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository elizaOS/eliza (19,313 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,474 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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