Claude canvas-design skill: posters and art as PNG or PDF
Anthropic’s skill for static visual pieces such as posters, art and one-off designs, saved as PNG or PDF.
- Type
- Skill
- Publisher
- Anthropic
- Category
- Design
- Works in
- Claude apps, Claude Code
The Claude canvas-design skill’s SKILL.md tells Claude to use it when you ask for a poster, a piece of art, a design or another static piece. Claude produces a single, highly visual page as a PNG or PDF file, mostly image with only essential text, and the skill tells it to create original designs and never copy existing artists’ work.
The work happens in two steps. Claude first writes a design philosophy: a named aesthetic movement described in four to six paragraphs and saved as a Markdown file. It then expresses that philosophy on a canvas, with a limited color palette, sparse typography and every element kept inside the page margins, and takes a second pass to refine the composition rather than add more graphics. You get the PNG or PDF together with the philosophy file. If you ask for more pages, they come in the same PDF or as several PNGs.
The skill is part of the example-skills plugin from Anthropic’s skills repository. In the Claude apps, example skills are turned on in Customize > Skills, with Code execution and file creation enabled (Use skills in Claude).
- What it does
- Creates original posters, art and other static designs as PNG or PDF files.
- How to install
- Claude apps: turn it on under Customize > Skills (Code execution and file creation must be on).
Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills - Source
- github.com
- Last checked
Questions
Can Claude make a poster as an image file?
Does canvas-design copy an artist’s style?
How do I install the canvas-design skill in Claude Code?
See also
Sources
Sources: names, descriptions and install commands come from Anthropic’s skills repository (github.com/anthropics/skills), its official plugin marketplace (github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official) and the Claude docs linked on each listing. Promptline is not affiliated with Anthropic.