canvas-discussion-facilitator SKILL.md skillA
canvas-discussion-facilitator from vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/canvas-discussion-facilitator@git:20260819.f6fb9f5Pins git:20260819.f6fb9f5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp
- Path
skills/canvas-discussion-facilitator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260819.f6fb9f5, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 2, 2026
- Size
- 10,411 bytes
- Repository stars
- 317
- License
- MIT
Discussion forum facilitator for Canvas LMS. Helps students and educators browse, read, reply to, and create discussion posts. Trigger phrases include "discussion posts", "reply to students", "check discussions", "forum participation", "post a discussion", or any discussion-related Canvas task.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Canvas Discussion Facilitator Facilitate discussion forum activity in Canvas LMS -- browse topics, read posts, reply to students, create new discussions, and monitor participation. Works for both students and educators. ## Prerequisites - **Canvas MCP server** must be running and connected to the agent's MCP client. - The authenticated user can have **any Canvas role** (student, TA, or instructor). Tool access is governed by Canvas API permissions. - **FERPA-conscious handling** (educators): Set `ENABLE_DATA_ANONYMIZATION=true` in the Canvas MCP server environment to anonymize supported student identity fields in output. This control does not by itself establish compliance. ## Steps ### 1. Identify the Course Ask the user which course to work with. Accept a course code, Canvas ID, or ask them to pick from a list. If the user does not specify, use `list_courses` to show active courses and prompt: > Which course should I look at discussions for? ### 2. Browse Discussion Topics Call the MCP tool `list_discussion_topics` with the course identifier to retrieve all discussion forums. **Parameters:** - `course_identifier` -- course code or Canvas ID …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/canvas-discussion-facilitator@sha256:0a11318945c85271The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.f6fb9f5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_anxh6z2yjmzbw5sg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 2, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 171 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260819.f6fb9f5 latest | 2026-08-19 | f6fb9f5 | 10,411 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260302.e715d91 | 2026-03-02 | e715d91 | 10,329 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10411 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp · 317 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_anxh6z2yjmzbw5sg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/canvas-discussion-facilitator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a11318945c852710cdf05e73938238dc708c2467d3cf4381e456dabb24d56f8
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