canvas-morning-check

canvas-morning-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A start-of-day report for teachers using Canvas, an online learning management system. It shows assignment submissions, students who may need support, grade patterns, and upcoming deadlines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review one or all active courses, find missing work, identify students needing help, inspect grade distributions, and prepare for approaching deadlines.
Why use it?
It brings common course-health checks into one review instead of requiring the teacher to inspect each area separately. It also supports anonymized student names when configured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review one or all active courses, find missing work, identify students needing help, inspect grade distributions, and prepare for approaching deadlines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/canvas-morning-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp --skill canvas-morning-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.01169
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 11d ago against content hash e526b1451f17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-morning-check 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 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.

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-morning-check/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canvas Morning Check

A comprehensive course health check for educators using Canvas LMS. Run it at the start of a teaching day or week to surface submission gaps, students who need support, and upcoming deadlines -- then take action directly from the results.

Prerequisites

  • Canvas MCP server must be running and connected to the agent's MCP client.
  • The authenticated user must have an educator or instructor role in the target Canvas course(s).
  • FERPA-conscious handling: Set ENABLE_DATA_ANONYMIZATION=true in the Canvas MCP server environment to anonymize supported student identity fields in output. When enabled, names render as Student_xxxxxxxx hashes. This control does not by itself establish compliance.

Steps

1. Identify Target Course(s)

Ask the user which course(s) to check. Accept a course code, Canvas ID, or "all" to iterate through every active course.

If the user does not specify, prompt:

Which course would you like to check? (Or say "all" for all active courses.)

Use the list_courses MCP tool if you need to look up available courses.

2. Collect Recent Submission Data

For each target course:

  1. Call list_assignments to find assignments with a due date in the past 7 days.
  2. For each recent assignment, call get_assignment_analytics to collect:
    • Submission rate (submitted / enrolled)
    • Average, high, and low scores
    • Late submission count

3. Identify Struggling Students

Call list_submissions to retrieve student submission records, then flag students based on these thresholds:

Urgency Criteria
Critical Missing 3+ assignments in the past 2 weeks, or average grade below 60%
Needs attention Missing 2 assignments, or average grade 60--70%, or 3+ late submissions
On track All submissions current, grade above 70%

Use get_student_analytics for deeper per-student analysis when the user requests it.

4. Check Upcoming Deadlines

Call list_assignments filtered to the next 7 days. For each upcoming assignment, surface:

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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 · 128 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A e526b1451f17

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canvas-morning-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp (236 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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