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canvas-design

Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy and aesthetic principles for posters, illustrations, and static pieces.

Install / Use

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill canvas-design

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill
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SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

90/100

Category

Design

Supported Platforms

Universal

Our assessment of canvas-design

canvas-design scores 90/100 on our quality scale, 41st of 133 Design skills we index (top 31%).

Its SKILL.md is 1.3 KB long, split into 5 sections with 1 code example: moderately detailed.

With 97,896 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.

Substance
20/30
Structure
15/20
Description
15/15
Adoption
20/20
Freshness
15/15

Maintenance, license and trust

  • The repository was last updated today, so canvas-design is actively maintained.
  • It is released under the Apache-2.0 license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
  • Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

canvas-design compared with similar skills

All 4 of these similar skills score higher than canvas-design; compare them before choosing.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install canvas-design?
Run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill canvas-design. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does canvas-design work with?
It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is canvas-design safe to use?
It is Apache-2.0-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is canvas-design still maintained?
The repository was last updated today, so canvas-design is actively maintained.

name: canvas-design description: | Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy and aesthetic principles for posters, illustrations, and static pieces. triggers:

  • "canvas design"
  • "visual art"
  • "poster design"
  • "create poster"
  • "illustration"
  • "海报"
  • "插画" od: mode: image category: image-generation upstream: "https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design"

canvas-design

Curated from Anthropic's official skills repository.

What it does

Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy and aesthetic principles for posters, illustrations, and static pieces.

Source

  • Upstream: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design
  • Category: image-generation

How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (canvas-design) or with one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

Related Skills

View on GitHub
GitHub Stars97.9k
CategoryDesign
Updated15h ago
Forks11.4k

Languages

TypeScript

Trust signals

100/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

No cautions