json-canvas

json-canvas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (5,341 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of json-canvas, MIT.

A guide for creating and editing JSON Canvas files, an open format for visual diagrams and infinite canvases used by Obsidian. It works with text, file, link, and group nodes, plus connections between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create mind maps, flowcharts, visual canvases, and connected Obsidian notes saved as .canvas files.
Why use it?
It removes the need to hand-write the file structure and connection data. This helps keep canvas files valid while arranging related information visually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create mind maps, flowcharts, visual canvases, and connected Obsidian notes saved as .canvas files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/json-canvas
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 julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill json-canvas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,341 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.05341
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.02670
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00534

Measured 9d ago against content hash b371f3fb5955, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

json-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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to json-canvas — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/json-canvas/SKILL.md · 655 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 655 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

JSON Canvas Skill

This skill enables Claude Code to create and edit valid JSON Canvas files (.canvas) used in Obsidian and other applications.

Overview

JSON Canvas is an open file format for infinite canvas data. Canvas files use the .canvas extension and contain valid JSON following the JSON Canvas Spec 1.0.

File Structure

A canvas file contains two top-level arrays:

{
  "nodes": [],
  "edges": []
}
  • nodes (optional): Array of node objects
  • edges (optional): Array of edge objects connecting nodes

Nodes

Nodes are objects placed on the canvas. There are four node types:

  • text - Text content with Markdown
  • file - Reference to files/attachments
  • link - External URL
  • group - Visual container for other nodes

Z-Index Ordering

Nodes are ordered by z-index in the array:

  • First node = bottom layer (displayed below others)
  • Last node = top layer (displayed above others)

Generic Node Attributes

All nodes share these attributes:

Attribute Required Type Description
id Yes string Unique identifier for the node
type Yes string Node type: text, file, link, or group
x Yes integer X position in pixels
y Yes integer Y position in pixels
width Yes integer Width in pixels
height Yes integer Height in pixels
color No canvasColor Node color (see Color section)

Text Nodes

Text nodes contain Markdown content.

{
  "id": "6f0ad84f44ce9c17",
  "type": "text",
  "x": 0,
  "y": 0,
  "width": 400,
  "height": 200,
  "text": "# Hello World\n\nThis is **Markdown** content."
}
Attribute Required Type Description
text Yes string Plain text with Markdown syntax

File Nodes

File nodes reference files or attachments (images, videos, PDFs, notes, etc.).

{
  "id": "a1b2c3d4e5f67890",
  "type": "file",
  "x": 500,
  "y": 0,
  "width": 400,
  "height": 300,
  "file": "Attachments/diagram.png"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 655 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. 9d ago First seen · 655 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b371f3fb5955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

json-canvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 5,341 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to json-canvas, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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