Anthropic

Canvas Design — Design skill for Claude Code

Design official Intermediate

Create beautiful visual art in PNG and PDF documents using design philosophy.

How to install Canvas Design

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/canvas-design/

Terminal

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills /tmp/skills \
  && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills \
  && cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/canvas-design ~/.claude/skills/canvas-design

Clones the whole repository, because a skill folder can carry scripts and resources beside its SKILL.md.

What Canvas Design does

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. Creates design philosophies as aesthetic movements that are then expressed visually through form, space, color, and composition.

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When Claude uses Canvas Design

Trigger

When user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece

Tools it reaches for:

Write

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