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.
Coverage
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 every Canva Team group mapped to the IAM unified group schema via the Canva SCIM v2 bridge. Canva Team groups represent named collections of users within a Team (used for permissions and brand asset scoping). Each entry surfaces the SCIM group id, display name, type ("group"), and created_at.
- Get Unified Group
Retrieve a single Canva Team group by SCIM id, mapped to the IAM unified group schema. Field coverage matches unified_list_groups. Uses the Canva SCIM Key for authentication.
Unified Organizations
- List Unified Organizations
Return a single-record list representing the Canva Team that the connection is attached to, mapped to the IAM unified organization schema. Canva is single-tenant per connection (one Team per OAuth grant), so this list always contains exactly one synthesized organization with a stable literal id ("canva").
- Get Unified Organization
Retrieve the synthesized Canva Team organization record. Canva is single-tenant per connection, so the only canonical identity is the literal "canva" (see remote_id on the returned record, or the id from unified_list_organizations). The action verifies the OAuth credentials via /users/me before returning.
Unified Roles
- List Unified Roles
List Canva Team roles synthesized from the SCIM provisioning surface. Canva does not expose a roles API, so this action returns a static catalog of the four built-in role names (Owner, Administrator, Designer, Member). Role IDs are stable enum keys that join 1:1 with the `roles[]` entries on unified_list_users / unified_get_user, and with unified_list_resource_users when present.
- Get Unified Role
Retrieve a single Canva Team role by stable enum id (owner, administrator, designer, member). Performs an auth probe against the SCIM /Users endpoint before returning, then synthesizes the role record locally — there is no upstream get-role API on Canva.
Unified Users
- List Unified Users
List every Canva Team member mapped to the IAM unified user schema via the Canva SCIM v2 bridge. Each entry surfaces the user's stable SCIM id, display name, primary email, and status (enabled/disabled from SCIM `active`). Pass expand=roles to inline a synthesized workspace-scoped role (admin/editor/basic) derived from the SCIM `role` field (Owner, Administrator, Designer, Member).
- Get Unified User
Retrieve a single Canva Team user by SCIM id, mapped to the IAM unified user schema. Field coverage matches unified_list_users (including the synthesized workspace-scoped role). Use this to enrich a user reference held elsewhere or to feed cross-action permission joins.
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 authenticated Canva Connect identity, auth type, and granted scopes for the current connection. Inlines the IamUser representation of the authenticated user using /users/me (Canva user_id) and /users/me/profile (display name). No second roundtrip needed for user identity.
- 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
{
"mcpServers": {
"stackone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote@latest",
"https://api.stackone.com/mcp?x-account-id=<account_id>",
"--header",
"Authorization: Basic <YOUR_BASE64_TOKEN>"
]
}
}
}Check More Design & Visual MCP Servers
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Platform Resources
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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 200+ Connector Builds Taught Us
MCP wraps APIs, it doesn't replace them. After building 200+ connectors that serve both, here's when each approach wins.
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Canva MCP Server FAQ
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