canvas-course-qc

canvas-course-qc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jasp-nerd/courseforge. It costs 87 tokens per session (447 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A readiness check for a Canvas course before students use it. Canvas is an online learning system, and the check looks for missing dates, empty or unpublished modules, broken assessment setup, and accessibility basics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review assignments, modules, quizzes, grading weights, navigation, pacing, syllabus links, headings, link text, image descriptions, color contrast, and the student view.
Why use it?
It finds course setup problems that could confuse students or affect grading before the term begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review assignments, modules, quizzes, grading weights, navigation, pacing, syllabus links, headings, link text, image descriptions, color contrast, and the student view.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasp-nerd/courseforge/canvas-course-qc
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 jasp-nerd/courseforge --skill canvas-course-qc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasp-nerd/courseforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 447 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 $0.00087 $0.00447
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 16013ac9f492, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-course-qc 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.

skills/canvas-course-qc/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Canvas course QC

Run a readiness review of a Canvas course and deliver a prioritized, actionable report.

With courseforge-mcp connected

  1. Call check_course_setup with the course_id — it returns structured findings:
    • assignments without due dates
    • graded assignments worth 0 points
    • unpublished modules / empty modules
    • quizzes with no questions
    • assignment-group weights that don't sum to 100
  2. Deepen where it warns: list_modules + list_module_items to spot ordering problems (e.g. an assignment due before its content module), get_course to check the syllabus exists.

Manual review dimensions (beyond the automated checks)

  • Navigation: is the home page (default_view) sensible? Does module 1 orient students (start-here page, syllabus link)?
  • Pacing: due dates spaced evenly? Nothing due before its module unlocks?
  • Grading story: do the group weights match what the syllabus promises?
  • Accessibility basics: pages use real headings (h2/h3, not bold text), links have descriptive text (not "click here"), images referenced in HTML have alt attributes, color contrast of any custom banner ≥ 4.5:1.
  • Student view: remind the teacher to use Canvas's Student View before publishing.

Report format

Give the teacher: ✅ what's ready, ⚠️ warnings with the exact item names and one-line fixes, and a short "do these 3 things before publishing" list. Offer to fix findings directly (via the structure tools or by editing the cartridge with the imscc-editor skill) — but only change things after they agree.

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 · 31 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 16013ac9f492

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canvas-course-qc is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasp-nerd/courseforge (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 447 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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