Canvas

Canvas is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by AgriciDaniel in claude-obsidian.

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Install Canvas

Copy Canvas into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian/tree/main/skills/canvas ~/.claude/skills/canvas

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/canvas/SKILL.md in AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/canvas
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Canvas does

Canvas creates, inspects, and updates Obsidian JSON Canvas boards inside a vault. It places text, file, link, group, and edge nodes for visual maps, spatial layouts, and adding vault notes or media to a .canvas file.

Canvas is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Canvas comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-note-taking, ai-second-brain, claude-code and claude-code-skill.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Canvas

Treat a canvas as a vault-scoped JSON Canvas document. Keep reads read-only and route every requested mutation through one recoverable transaction.

Resolve the installed product root from this skill's own location, not from the vault or current working directory:

PRODUCT_ROOT=/absolute/path/to/installed/claude-obsidian
CORE="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/claude-obsidian.py"
test -f "$CORE"

Choose the syntax source

Prefer a separately installed kepano/obsidian-skills json-canvas skill for format details. Otherwise read references/canvas-spec.md. The open standard is JSON Canvas 1.0.

Use this skill for vault workflow and transaction safety even when an upstream syntax skill is available.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Canvas

What else does AgriciDaniel publish alongside Canvas?
Canvas is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Autoresearch, Defuddle and Example. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Canvas does, and is maintained by AgriciDaniel in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian page.
How does Canvas compare to other Automation skills?
Canvas ranks #167 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Canvas against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.