Agent skill · design visual · jeremylongshore
canva-core-workflow-a
Create an authorized Canva design and export it through a reconciled asynchronous job. Use when performing design creation, supported-format selection, export polling, and safe result handling. Trigger with: "create Canva design", "export Canva design", "poll Canva export".
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable scripts for creating, editing, and exporting designs via the Canva API that are not available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires npm installed locally. Requires canva account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Canva Design and Export Workflow Overview Keep design creation, user editing, export submission, job reconciliation, and result delivery as separate recorded operations. Query current supported export formats instead of hard-coding a universal list. Prerequisites Approved design purpose, owner, input rights, and destination Explicit design scopes and resource authorization Pinned endpoint contract and result-data retention decision Instructions Step 1: Authorize the request Resolve tenant, user, design purpose, required explicit scopes, content rights, and whether a new design is permitted. Step 2: Create once Persist an application operation key before submitting the design request. Store only the returned opaque design reference and approved URLs under policy. Step 3: Confirm user handoff Present the correct view or edit surface only to the authorized user. Do not treat creation as evidence that downstream export is allowed. Step 4: Discover formats Query the design export-formats endpoint when available and validate the requested format/options against that response and current OpenAPI. Step 5: Submit and poll export Persist the export job ID, poll the existing job with bounded exponential backoff, and stop on success, failed, or the local timeout budget. Step 6: Deliver and expire Validate content type and destination, keep result URLs out of logs, honor response/provider expiry evidence, and record cleanup or retention. Authentication Canva Connect calls use Bearer access tokens obtained by a backend through OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code with SHA-256 PKCE. Request explicit least-privilege scopes, keep client secrets and tokens out of browser-visible state, and serialize refresh so the replacement single-use refresh token is stored atomically. Tool Discipline Use Read and Grep for discovery and evidence. Use Write or Edit only for the approved artifact, code, configuration, test, or receipt described by this workflow; do not make an unapproved Canva-side change. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/canva-core-workflow-a