Canva MCP Server
for AI Agents
Connect your AI agent to StackOne's Canva MCP server and give it 36 MCP tools out of the box. Auth, tool execution, and security all managed.
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36 Agent Actions
Create, read, update, and delete across Canva — and extend your agent's capabilities with custom actions.
Authentication
Agent Tool Authentication
Per-user OAuth in one call. Your Canva MCP server gets session-scoped tokens with zero credentials stored on your infra.
Agent Auth →
Security
Agent Protection
Every Canva tool response scanned for prompt injection in milliseconds — 88.7% accuracy, all running on CPU.
Prompt Injection Defense →
Performance
Max Agent Context. Min Cost.
Free up to 96% of your agent's context window to enhance reasoning and reduce cost, on every Canva call.
Tools Discovery →What is the Canva MCP Server?
A Canva MCP server lets AI agents read and write Canva data through the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Canva MCP server ships with 36 pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder — plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, observability, and agent execution runtime. Connect it from MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, and VS Code, or from agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, and Vercel AI SDK.
All Canva MCP Tools
Every action from Canva's API, ready for your agent. Create, read, update, and delete — scoped to exactly what you need.
Designs
- Create Design
Create a new Canva design
- List Designs
List designs owned by the authenticated user
- Get Design
Retrieve a design by its ID
Folder Items
- List Folder Items
List items in a folder
- Move Folder Item
Move an item to a different folder
Folders
- Create Folder
Create a new folder
- Get Folder
Retrieve a folder by its ID
- Update Folder
Update a folder's name
- Delete Folder
Delete a folder
Assets
- Get Asset
Retrieve an asset by its ID
- Update Asset
Update an asset's metadata
- Delete Asset
Delete an asset
Asset Upload Jobs
- Create Asset Upload Job
Start an asset upload job via URL
- Get Asset Upload Job
Get the status and result of an asset upload job
Jobs
- Create Export Job
Start a design export job
- Get Export Job
Get the status and result of an export job
Comment Threads
- Create Comment Thread
Create a new comment thread on a design
- Get Comment Thread
Retrieve a comment thread from a design
Brand Templates
- Publish Brand Template
Publish a design as a brand template
- List Brand Templates
List brand templates owned by the authenticated user
- Get Brand Template
Retrieve a brand template by its ID
Unified Groups
- List Unified Groups
List the teams in the Canva organization as groups, read from the Canva Admin API. Each record has the team id, name and created date.
- Get Unified Group
Retrieve one Canva team as a group, read from the Canva Admin API. Fields match unified_list_groups.
Unified Organizations
- List Unified Organizations
List the Canva organization the connection belongs to, read from the Canva Admin API. A connection has exactly one organization, so the list always has one record.
- Get Unified Organization
Retrieve the Canva organization the connection belongs to, read from the Canva Admin API. A connection has exactly one organization, so only `self` (or the id from the list) resolves; any other id returns 404.
Unified Roles
- List Unified Roles
List the six roles Canva defines, three for the organization and three for teams. The Canva Admin API has no roles endpoint, so the list is fixed.
- Get Unified Role
Retrieve one of the six roles Canva defines by id, such as team_designer. An id outside the catalog returns 404.
Unified Users
- List Unified Users
List the users in the Canva organization, read from the Canva Admin API. Each record has the email, name and last active time. Pass expand roles or groups to add the user's organization and team roles or teams.
- Get Unified User
Retrieve one Canva user as an IAM user, read from the Canva Admin API. Fields match unified_list_users, including expand roles and groups.
Other (7)
- Create Reply
Add a reply to a comment thread
- List Design Pages
List pages in a design
- List Replies
List replies in a comment thread
- Get Current User
Retrieve the authenticated user's information
- Get User Profile
Retrieve the authenticated user's profile
- Get Unified Credentials
Return the identity behind the current Canva connection. On the Admin API connection that is the client id, checked against the Admin API; on the Connect connection it is the signed-in user, with the display name when the token has the profile scope.
- IAM Auth Test
Validate the current Canva Connect OAuth token by calling /users/me and return the raw, unmapped response (team_user.user_id, team_user.team_id). Use this for debugging token expiry, refresh failures, or revocation rather than for normal app flows — unified_get_me is the unified IAM credentials wrapper for the same data.
Set Up Your Canva MCP Server in Minutes
One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Canva in under 10 lines of code.
Agent Frameworks
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}Check More Design & Visual MCP Servers
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Platform Resources
MCP Code Mode: Keeping Tool Responses Out of Agent Context
Anthropic's code_execution processes data already in context. Custom MCP code mode keeps raw tool responses in a sandbox. 14K tokens vs 500.
11 min
Comparing BM25, TF-IDF, and Hybrid Search for MCP Tool Discovery
Benchmarking BM25, TF-IDF, and hybrid search for MCP tool discovery across 916 tools. The 80/20 TF-IDF/BM25 hybrid hits 21% Top-1 accuracy in under 1ms.
10 min
Indirect Prompt Injection Defense for MCP Tools: A Technical Guide
MCP tools that read emails, CRM records, and tickets are indirect prompt injection vectors. Here's how we built a two-tier defense that scans tool results in ~11ms.
12 min
MCP vs A2A: Architecture, Security, and When to Use Each
MCP vs A2A: what each protocol standardizes, how they differ, their shared security risks including indirect prompt injection, and when to use one, both, or a hybrid architecture.
12 min
MCP vs API: What Hundreds of Connector Builds Taught Us
MCP wraps APIs, it doesn't replace them. After building hundreds of connectors that serve both, here's when each approach wins.
14 min read
Canva MCP Server FAQ
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What is the context bloat of a Canva agent and how do I avoid it?
Can I limit which actions my Canva agent can access?
Can I create custom agent actions for my Canva MCP server?
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Put your AI agents to work
All the tools you need to build and scale AI agent integrations, with best-in-class connectivity, execution, and security.