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.
npx skills add JohannsenLum/canvas-api-mcp --skill canvas-study-packgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JohannsenLum/canvas-api-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/johannsenlum/canvas-api-mcp/canvas-study-pack)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johannsenlum/canvas-api-mcp/canvas-study-pack"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johannsenlum/canvas-api-mcp/canvas-study-pack/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johannsenlum/canvas-api-mcp/canvas-study-pack"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johannsenlum/canvas-api-mcp/canvas-study-pack.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00076 | $0.00747 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00374 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00149 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
canvas-study-pack 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Canvas Study Pack
Read-only research and summarisation skill. Never modify, submit, or post anything: only report what the canvas-api-mcp tools return.
Prerequisites
The canvas-api-mcp MCP server must be installed and connected in the current client.
If tool calls to my_courses, course_content, list_files, or read_file are not
available, tell the user to install it first:
https://mcp.johannsenlum.com/canvas-lms/install
Procedure
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Identify the course. Call
my_coursesto find the course the topic belongs to. If the student named the course, match it; if ambiguous or unstated, ask which course or check the most likely candidates via step 2 before guessing. -
Survey course content. Call
course_contentfor the identified course to see what modules/content exist and to help locate material related to the topic. -
Search for files on the topic. Call
list_fileswith a search term derived from the topic (and course_content findings) to locate candidate files. -
Read the most relevant file(s). Call
read_fileon the file(s) that best match the topic based on filename/context from step 3. Read more than one file if several are plausibly relevant. Do not settle for a single weak match if better candidates exist in the list. -
Summarise, grounded only in what was read:
- Every point in the summary must be traceable to specific content pulled via
read_filein this session. - Cite which file each point came from (e.g. "(from
lecture-05-notes.pdf)") so the student can verify. - Do NOT supplement with general knowledge about the topic, even if you "know" more about it. If the retrieved material is thin, the summary should be thin.
- If the material available (via
list_files/course_content) does not cover some aspect of the topic the student asked about, say so explicitly (e.g. "The course files found don't cover X") instead of filling the gap from general knowledge.
- Every point in the summary must be traceable to specific content pulled via
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 8e2c956e01cd
canvas-study-pack is a skill published in the GitHub repository JohannsenLum/canvas-api-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 747 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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