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/canvas

AI-orchestrated visual canvas production — create, populate, layout, present, generate, and export Obsidian canvases

From plugin
claude-canvas
2471 skill3 agents1 command1 hook
Install
$ npx -y skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this command gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/canvas

Context preview

What this command does when you run it.

AI-orchestrated visual canvas production — create, populate, layout, present, generate, and export Obsidian canvases

Command definition

canvas.md
description: AI-orchestrated visual canvas production — create, populate, layout, present, generate, and export Obsidian canvases

Read the canvas skill. Then execute the requested operation.

Usage:

  • `/canvas` — show status and list canvases
  • `/canvas create [name]` — create a new canvas (blank or from template)
  • `/canvas add [type] [content]` — add a node (image, text, pdf, note, link, mermaid, svg, gif, banana)
  • `/canvas zone [name] [color]` — create a labeled zone
  • `/canvas connect [from] [to] [label]` — add an edge between nodes
  • `/canvas from banana` — import recent AI-generated images
  • `/canvas layout [algorithm]` — re-layout nodes (auto, grid, dagre, radial, force, linear)
  • `/canvas present [topic]` — build a presentation canvas
  • `/canvas generate [description]` — AI-orchestrated full generation
  • `/canvas template list` — browse 12 archetypes
  • `/canvas export png [path]` — export to image
  • `/canvas list` — list all canvases with node counts

If no canvas directory exists, create `.canvases/` in the current project. If `wiki/canvases/` exists (claude-obsidian vault), use that instead.

Ships withclaude-canvas

AI-orchestrated visual production for Obsidian Canvas. Create presentations, flowcharts, mood boards, knowledge graphs, and galleries with intelligent layout and AI-generated content.

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