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Canvas Parent Mcp

io.github.chrischall/canvas-parent-mcp · v2.3.0

Canvas LMS (Instructure) for Claude — courses, grades, assignments, planner, files

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Terminal
claude mcp add canvas-parent-mcp -e CANVAS_BASE_URL=<CANVAS_BASE_URL> -e CANVAS_USERNAME=<CANVAS_USERNAME> -e CANVAS_PASSWORD=<CANVAS_PASSWORD> -e CANVAS_TOKEN=<CANVAS_TOKEN> -e CANVAS_CLIENT_ID=<CANVAS_CLIENT_ID> -e CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET=<CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET> -e CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN=<CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN> -e CANVAS_NAME=<CANVAS_NAME> -e CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE=<CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE> -e CANVAS_SESSION_FILE=<CANVAS_SESSION_FILE> -e CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR=<CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR> -e CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY=<CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY> -e FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT=<FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT> -e FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST=<FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST> -e FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR=<FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR> -- npx -y [email protected]
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canvas-parent-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
        "CANVAS_USERNAME": "<CANVAS_USERNAME>",
        "CANVAS_PASSWORD": "<CANVAS_PASSWORD>",
        "CANVAS_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_ID": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_ID>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET>",
        "CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_NAME": "<CANVAS_NAME>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_FILE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_FILE>",
        "CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR": "<CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR>",
        "CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY": "<CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST>",
        "FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR": "<FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canvas-parent-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
        "CANVAS_USERNAME": "<CANVAS_USERNAME>",
        "CANVAS_PASSWORD": "<CANVAS_PASSWORD>",
        "CANVAS_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_ID": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_ID>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET>",
        "CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_NAME": "<CANVAS_NAME>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_FILE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_FILE>",
        "CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR": "<CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR>",
        "CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY": "<CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST>",
        "FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR": "<FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "canvas-parent-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
        "CANVAS_USERNAME": "<CANVAS_USERNAME>",
        "CANVAS_PASSWORD": "<CANVAS_PASSWORD>",
        "CANVAS_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_ID": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_ID>",
        "CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET": "<CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET>",
        "CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "<CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN>",
        "CANVAS_NAME": "<CANVAS_NAME>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE>",
        "CANVAS_SESSION_FILE": "<CANVAS_SESSION_FILE>",
        "CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR": "<CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR>",
        "CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY": "<CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT>",
        "FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST": "<FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST>",
        "FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR": "<FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.

Tools

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Environment variables

NameDescription
CANVAS_BASE_URL
Required		Canvas instance base URL, e.g. https://cms.instructure.com
CANVAS_USERNAME
Optional		Canvas login username/email (recommended) — pair with CANVAS_PASSWORD for auto-login. No SSO/2FA.
CANVAS_PASSWORD
Optional, secret		Canvas password (recommended) — required iff CANVAS_USERNAME is set
CANVAS_TOKEN
Optional, secret		Canvas personal access token (advanced) — most schools have disabled token creation
CANVAS_CLIENT_ID
Optional		Canvas OAuth client ID (advanced — for SSO accounts that can't use username/password)
CANVAS_CLIENT_SECRET
Optional, secret		Canvas OAuth client secret (advanced)
CANVAS_REFRESH_TOKEN
Optional, secret		Canvas OAuth refresh token (advanced) — bootstrap via canvas-parent-mcp-qr-login
CANVAS_NAME
Optional		Friendly name for the Canvas instance (defaults to the host portion of the base URL)
CANVAS_SESSION_CACHE
Optional		Set to false to disable the on-disk session cache and re-authenticate on every process start. Defaults to enabled.
CANVAS_SESSION_FILE
Optional		Absolute path for the session cache file. Defaults to $MCP_DATA_DIR/.canvas-parent-mcp/session.json.
CANVAS_OUTPUT_DIR
Optional		Directory canvas_download_file may write into (default ~/Downloads). A relative destinationPath is resolved against it.
CANVAS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY
Optional		Set to 1 to turn off the browser (fetchproxy) fallback, so missing credentials are a hard error instead.
FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT
Optional		Localhost port of the fetchproxy concentrator the ContextMint Bridge extension connects to (default 37149). Every MCP on one machine shares it, so move it for all of them or not at all.
FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST
Optional		Bind interface for the fetchproxy concentrator, a literal IP only (default 127.0.0.1). Keep on loopback; it exists for hosted deployments that run each MCP in its own network namespace.
FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR
Optional		Absolute path where the fetchproxy long-term identity keypair is stored (default ~/.fetchproxy/identity/).

Details

Package[email protected] (NPM, stdio)
First published11 Nov 2026
Last updated11 Nov 2026
Registry nameio.github.chrischall/canvas-parent-mcp

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