Canvas Design

You're getting a wrapper around Anthropic's official canvas design workflow that generates posters, illustrations, and static visual pieces as PNG or PDF files. The skill hooks into Claude's image generation mode and triggers on phrases like "create poster" or "visual art" (plus Chinese equivalents). What you see here is mostly the Open Design advertisement layer. The actual implementation lives upstream in Anthropic's skills repo, so you'll need to pull that bundle to get the real prompts, assets, and design philosophy they're applying. Useful if you want programmatic poster generation without writing your own aesthetic guidelines, though you're trusting their opinionated approach to layout and composition.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill canvas-design --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

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.

SKILL.md on GitHub

Details

Repository: github.com/nexu-io/open-design
Categories: Design & UI/UX, Office & Documents
First seen: Jun 3, 2026