Canvas Design
Official skill for generating visual layouts and design compositions as code.
Use it for
Producing posters, cards, and simple compositions where the layout is the deliverable
Skip it if
Brand-critical work without a human art director; it follows constraints, it does not judge taste
What it is
An official design skill that composes visual output programmatically: type, colour, spacing, and shapes defined in code rather than by prompting an image model. That makes the result deterministic and editable. It is closer to a layout engine than to illustration, which is the point.
Install
Clone the repository, then copy the skill folder into your agent's skills directory — ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code. Skills are plain files: no build step, no daemon.
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skillsHow to judge it
Read the SKILL.md before you install. A good skill states when it applies, what it must not do, and how to verify the result. A skill that only lists adjectives will change the agent's tone without improving its output — skip those.
Other Image & Design skills
- Algorithmic Art — Official skill for generating art as code — procedural patterns instead of image prompts.
- Theme Factory — Official skill for generating consistent visual themes across artifacts.
- Brand Guidelines — Official skill that applies a written brand system to generated output.