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Designs, assets and exports

Canva lets users create and edit designs in words, search their own design library, upload and organize assets, export in the format a channel needs, and leave comments where the work is. Each user signs in to their own Canva account, and the agent can do what that account can do.

What an agent can do with Canva

  • Draft a design from text

    Canva's MCP server can generate designs from text. The generate-design and create-design-from-candidate tools make a new design, and generate-image makes an image. Some of these AI actions use your monthly Canva AI credits.

  • Edit an existing design

    The agent opens an editing transaction with start-editing-transaction and makes changes with perform-editing-operations. Then commit-editing-transaction saves the changes, or cancel-editing-transaction drops them. The get-design-thumbnail tool shows the result. The agent can edit only the designs that your account can edit.

  • Resize and export for a channel

    The resize-design tool resizes a design for a different channel. The get-export-formats tool lists the formats of a design, and export-design exports it, also as video. Free plans get standard export quality, and resizing needs Canva Pro and above, with a limited trial on Free.

  • Organize the design library

    The search-designs and search-folders tools find your work. The create-folder and move-item-to-folder tools put designs in order. The upload-asset-from-url tool adds an asset, and the comment-on-design and reply-to-comment tools leave feedback on a design.

How to connect Canva to OpenBot

  1. Open Canva in OpenBot

    Press Open in OpenBot on this page, or find Canva in the app's Apps tab. Get the app first if it is not on this computer.

  2. Sign in

    Press Connect and finish the sign-in in your browser. OpenBot keeps the token on the computer that runs OpenBot. You can disconnect at any time.

  3. Give an agent a task

    Ask an agent for work that needs Canva, such as one of the example prompts below. The agent uses the plugin's tools to do it.

Example prompts3

  • CanvaShow me my most recently edited Canva design.
  • CanvaResize my launch poster for Instagram and export both as PNG.
  • CanvaTurn these release notes into a six-slide Canva presentation.

Apps1

  • Canva

    Design creation and editing, library search, asset and brand management, exports, and comments, over one MCP server.

Information6

Developer
canva.com
Category
Design
Version
1.0.0
Website
canva.com
Privacy policy
canva.com/policies/privacy-policy
Terms
canva.com/policies/terms-of-use

Questions

Is the Canva MCP server official?

Yes. Canva hosts a remote MCP server that gives an AI assistant access to Canva's design APIs. The OpenBot listing connects to this server. It is not the Canva Dev MCP server, which helps developers build Canva apps.

How does the Canva plugin sign in?

Canva requires each user to sign in individually with OAuth. OpenBot does the sign-in itself, keeps the tokens in encrypted storage, and adds the Authorization header. You do not need an API key. The agent can do only what your Canva account can do.

Which Canva plan does the plugin need?

Canva says that its AI connector is available for all Canva accounts, including Canva Free and Canva Education. Resizing, autofill, brand kits and brand templates need Canva Pro and above. On a Canva team, an admin may need to turn on the connector first.

Does it cost anything?

Installing the plugin is free. Some AI actions use your monthly Canva AI credits, and they can pause until the credits refresh. Canva also limits requests to 300 per minute per user across all MCP clients, with lower limits for some tools.

Sources

Every statement about Canva comes from the pages below, checked on . They can change after that date.