Illustrative cover generated by us — see the source repo for real examples.
How to use
- 1
Copy the install prompt
Click the black button. One click, done.
- 2
Paste it to your agent
Send it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It installs itself.
- 3
Ask in one sentence
Say what you want, like below, and the agent follows this skill.
/canvas-design make me: Posters and static art pieces exported as PNG or PDFExample message showing how to invoke it, not a real output.
What you get
- A design philosophy per piece
- PNG / PDF output
- Multi-page option
Good fit
- Posters and static art pieces exported as PNG or PDF
Not for
- Copying an existing artist's work
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Author
- @anthropics
- Source
- anthropics/skills/skills/canvas-design · ★ 179,820
Upstream description
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
Other ways to install
Prefer doing it yourself? These commands do the same as the button.
Read https://skilloop.dev/skills/canvas-design/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design -g -a claude-code
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design -g -a codex
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git /tmp/skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/canvas-design ~/.claude/skills/canvas-design
Original work by its authors, redistributed under its license. We only link and describe it.
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