Canva Skills + MCP (official) — guide skill for ads & UGC

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Official Canva plugin: resize a design to every social format, bulk-create from CSV, brand-check, edit via Canva MCP.

• Type: Guide · Ads & UGC
• Slug: canva-skills-mcp
• Status: live
• Publisher: Canva (vendor)
• License: Apache-2.0
• Source: https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills/tree/main/plugins/canva/skills
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Any MCP client
• Requires: Canva account (OAuth via Canva MCP), Canva Enterprise for bulk-create autofill
• Adoption: 140 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)

What it does

Canva's own plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor bundles the Canva MCP (mcp.canva.com, OAuth) with skills. resize-for-social-media turns one static ad into Facebook/Instagram post and story and LinkedIn sizes in parallel; bulk-create autofills a brand template from a CSV, one design per row (Canva Enterprise); brand-check compares a design to the brand kit; edit-design and implement-feedback apply approval-gated edits. Output is editable Canva designs with links to export.

Use when

• resize my static ad for every social placement
• make one ad per product row from a spreadsheet
• check this ad against our brand kit

Not for

• video generation
• accounts without Canva brand templates (bulk-create)

Install

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add canva-sdks/canva-skills && claude plugin install canva@canva-skills
• Codex: codex plugin marketplace add canva-sdks/canva-skills && codex plugin add canva@canva-skills && codex mcp login canva
• Cursor: npx skills add canva-sdks/canva-skills -a cursor
• Any MCP client: https://mcp.canva.com/mcp

More ads & UGC skills

• Ecommerce video ad skills for Claude Code and AI agents: Product videos that sell on TikTok, TikTok Shop, Reels and Meta: angle, hook, format, script, rules, variants.
• Turn a product into scroll-stopping video hooks: The first 3 seconds of a product video: frame, line and text that agree, from a 70-line hook bank.
• Open-source alternative to Arcads: AI UGC ads: AI UGC ads with an AI actor holding your real product: face, voice and label locked, labelled.
• Turn one winning ad into a creative testing plan: How many ads to test, what to change, when to judge, kill or scale — concepts Meta sees as different.
• Turn a product into a dropshipping guide reel: The faceless "comment GUIDE" reel: product hook, a marker pointing at cost and price on a laptop, a skyline ending.
• Turn product photos into a viral product hook: Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.