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canvas-mcp

Canvas LMS MCP server — 80+ tools and 5 agent skills for students & educators. Works with Claude, Cursor, Codex, and 40+ agents.

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// key findings
🚨
Secret credentials may flow to a network call
1 flow detected: CANVAS_API_TOKEN. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.
⚠️
Tool annotations don’t match behaviour
3 read-only tools perform write/delete/exec — download_course_file (line 145: os.unlink(save_path)); extract_peer_review_dataset (line 264: with open(resolved, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:); generate_peer_review_report (line 171: with open(resolved, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:)
🔐
You'll be asked for 2 credentials: CANVAS_API_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
🔐 secretCANVAS_API_TOKENRequired: , CANVAS_API_URL
configCANVAS_API_URLRequired: CANVAS_API_TOKEN,
configMCP_SERVER_NAME
configLOG_LEVEL
configAUDIT_LOG_DIR
configTS_SANDBOX_MODEContainer sandbox =container Full filesystem isolation via Docker/Podman
configTS_SANDBOX_ALLOWLIST_HOSTS
configTS_SANDBOX_CONTAINER_IMAGE
configMCP_ACCESS_KEYS
configMCP_ENTRA_ALLOWED_OIDS
configACCESS_TABLE_ACCOUNT
configACCESS_TABLE_NAME
configACS_ENDPOINT
configACS_SENDER
configACCESS_ADMIN_EMAILS
configACCESS_APPROVE_BASE_URL
🔐 secretACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
configINSTITUTION_NAME
configTIMEZONE
configCANVAS_ROLE
configSTUDENT_WRITE_TOOLS
configLOG_REDACT_PIIPII sanitization in logs =true
// quality suggestions

All four hints declared on every tool

99/99 tools missing one or more hints — fetch_ufixit_report (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); parse_ufixit_violations (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); format_accessibility_summary (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +96 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool annotations match behaviour

3 read-only tools perform write/delete/exec — download_course_file (line 145: os.unlink(save_path)); extract_peer_review_dataset (line 264: with open(resolved, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:); generate_peer_review_report (line 171: with open(resolved, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:)

Either remove the readOnlyHint:true annotation, or remove the write/delete call from the tool handler.

Destructive tools are labelled

1 tool perform destructive updates without destructiveHint — download_course_file deletes at line 145 (os.unlink(save_path))

Add destructiveHint:true to any tool whose handler calls .delete(), .upsert(), .update(), unlink, rm, DELETE, DROP, REPLACE INTO, or any operation that overwrites existing data.

Secrets stay with their owner

1 secret/sensitive value flow into network calls (CANVAS_API_TOKEN → dynamic)

Audit where credentials are sent. A NOTION_TOKEN should only reach api.notion.com — never a third-party host.

Secrets not logged

2 secret values sent to console.log

Redact or omit secret values from log output.

Dependency freshness

1/1 production deps stale: node-fetch@2023-11-30 (2.7y)

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// full audit trail
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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
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commit: 4f32155ccb3434529125de4d2ca06abf908bd8bd
code hash: 1b41c1773aa27c900d3a286b6473a44112d7ccbd5ff3cd6609cd49e2fb992d9a
verified: 8/14/2026, 10:02:24 AM
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