claude-canvas
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This is a Claude Code plugin for creating, populating, and laying out Obsidian Canvas files with AI assistance. Claude acts as Creative Director for Obsidian Canvas. Describe what you want — a presentation, mood board, flowchart, or knowledge graph — and get a fully populated, professionally laid-out canvas with AI-generated images, diagrams, and text. Works with /banana (AI images), /svg (diagrams), /claude-gif-* (animations) when installed. Gracefully degrades if not available.
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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If wiki/canvases/ exists (claude-obsidian vault): uses that
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
claude-canvas — AI-Orchestrated Visual Production
This is a Claude Code plugin for creating, populating, and laying out Obsidian Canvas files with AI assistance.
What It Does
Claude acts as Creative Director for Obsidian Canvas. Describe what you want — a presentation, mood board, flowchart, or knowledge graph — and get a fully populated, professionally laid-out canvas with AI-generated images, diagrams, and text.
Directory Structure
skills/
canvas/ Main orchestrator — routes commands to sub-skills
canvas-create/ Create blank or templated canvases
canvas-populate/ Add nodes, edges, zones to existing canvases
canvas-layout/ Re-layout with 6 algorithms
canvas-present/ Build presentation-mode canvases for Advanced Canvas
canvas-generate/ AI-orchestrated full canvas generation (flagship)
canvas-template/ Browse and instantiate 12 archetype templates
canvas-export/ Export canvas to PNG/SVG/PDF
agents/ 3 sub-agents: layout, media, composer
scripts/ Python CLI tools (validate, layout, template)
templates/ 12 JSON Canvas archetype templates
bin/ Setup script for optional dependenciesQuick Commands
| You say | Claude does |
/canvas | List canvases with node counts |
/canvas create my-project | Create a new canvas |
/canvas add image photo.png | Add an image node |
/canvas add banana "hero image" | Generate AI image, add to canvas |
/canvas layout dagre | Re-layout with hierarchical algorithm |
/canvas present "Q3 Review" | Build a presentation canvas |
/canvas generate "mood board for game" | Full AI-orchestrated generation |
/canvas template list | Browse 12 archetypes |
Canvas Location
- If
wiki/canvases/exists (claude-obsidian vault): uses that - Otherwise: creates
.canvases/in the current project directory
Integration
Works with /banana (AI images), /svg (diagrams), /claude-gif-* (animations) when installed. Gracefully degrades if not available.
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