Canvas LMS

Item: Canvas LMS
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Local-first MCP server for Canvas LMS — access courses, assignments, grades, modules, announcements, and calendar events via stdio.

→ admin978/canvas-mcp· pypi: canvas-local-mcp· 1.6K installs· listed on pulsemcp

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: CANVAS_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configCANVAS_BASE_URL— edit ~/.canvas.env: set (institution root, no /api/v1)

🔐 secretCANVAS_TOKEN— and paste the token into

configCANVAS_DUMP_DIR— Output goes to ./canvas-dump/ by default. Override with =/path/to/dir.

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commit: a0a623b011519ec9195f84205ab96ee7b122d008

code hash: a9cc0a7ed6f9fdbbd04b31d9b82acc74c33d977bb20d5bead25e8fb44f0adea7

verified: 7/15/2026, 8:35:26 AM

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