AgriciDaniel/canvas-create
skills/canvas-create/SKILL.md
Create new Obsidian Canvas files — blank with a starter structure, or from one of 12 template archetypes (presentation, flowchart, mind-map, gallery, dashboard, storyboard, knowledge-graph, mood-board, timeline, comparison, kanban, project-brief). Handles directory creation, slug generation, and starter zone setup. Triggers on: canvas create, create canvas, new canvas, canvas new, start canvas.
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas canvas-createInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- canvas-create
- description:
- >
- Triggers on:
- canvas create, create canvas, new canvas, canvas new, start canvas.
- user-invocable:
- false
canvas-create: Create New Canvases
Operations
Blank Canvas (/canvas create [name])
- Slugify the name: lowercase, spaces to hyphens, strip special chars.
- Determine canvas directory (see canvas orchestrator for context detection).
- Create
[canvas_dir]/[slug].canvaswith starter structure:
{
"nodes": [
{
"id": "zone-default",
"type": "group",
"label": "General",
"x": -400, "y": -140, "width": 800, "height": 400, "color": "4"
},
{
"id": "title",
"type": "text",
"text": "# [Name]\n\nDrop images, PDFs, and notes here.",
"x": -400, "y": -300, "width": 400, "height": 120, "color": "6"
}
],
"edges": []
}
Note: Groups MUST come before content nodes in the array (z-index ordering — groups render behind content).
- Report: "Created [canvas_dir]/[slug].canvas. Open it in Obsidian to view."
Templated Canvas (/canvas create [name] from [template])
- Validate template name against the 12 archetypes.
- If no template name given or unclear, show available templates:
presentation — Slide deck (1200x675, Advanced Canvas)
flowchart — Process flow (Sugiyama/dagre layout)
mind-map — Radial center-out expansion
gallery — Grid of image nodes
dashboard — Metric cards + charts + zones
storyboard — Linear scene cards + script annotations
knowledge-graph — Force-directed entity map
mood-board — Asymmetric image grid
timeline — Horizontal event sequence
comparison — Side-by-side columns
kanban — Column zones (Todo/Doing/Done)
project-brief — Hero zone + objectives + deliverables
- Ask the user for template-specific parameters (title, number of items, color scheme).
- Delegate to canvas-template skill for instantiation.
- MANDATORY: Replace ALL placeholder text in every node with real, relevant content based on the title and topic. This is not optional:
- Read the generated canvas JSON
- For each text node, replace generic text ("Describe this step", "YYYY-MM-DD", "Value: 0") with real content relevant to the canvas title
- Use the Edit tool to update each node's
textfield - This is the difference between a skeleton and a finished canvas
- Run
python3 scripts/canvas_validate.py <path>to verify validity. - Report the created canvas with node/zone counts.
Slug Generation
import re
def slugify(name):
slug = name.lower().strip()
slug = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9\s-]', '', slug)
slug = re.sub(r'[\s]+', '-', slug)
slug = re.sub(r'-+', '-', slug)
return slug.strip('-')
Directory Rules
- Vault mode (
wiki/canvases/exists): create there, media to_attachments/images/canvas/ - Standalone mode: create in
.canvases/, media to.canvases/assets/ - Create the directory if it doesn't exist.
- Never overwrite an existing canvas without asking the user.
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