---
title: "canvas-authoring"
description: "A toolkit setup companion to the GitHub Copilot app's installed create-canvas skill, with an Azure starter, safe asset packaging and a focused browser smoke."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/canvas-authoring
last-updated: 2026-10-05
---

# canvas-authoring
A toolkit setup companion to the GitHub Copilot app's installed create-canvas skill, with an Azure starter, safe asset packaging and a focused browser smoke.
- Slug: canvas-authoring
- Publisher: microsoft
- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-dev-tools
- Manifest: plugins/canvas-authoring/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.1
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (create-canvas-app)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-09-17
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-03
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/canvas-authoring
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What canvas-authoring does, in the publisher's words

Create a canvas app with the Microsoft Canvas Toolkit. This skill-only companion adds toolkit setup and a counter or read-only Azure resource-group starter to the host's native create-canvas workflow. Installing it does not open a canvas.

- A canvas-capable GitHub Copilot host with its installed create-canvas skill. The plugin does not replace or install that host skill.
- Node.js 22+ (24 recommended) and npm.
- The exact @microsoft/canvas-toolkit@0.1.0-preview.2 release exporting @microsoft/canvas-toolkit/build, or an approved local.tgz containing that API. Do not treat a missing /build export as success.
- For live Azure reads: Azure CLI 2.61+ and permission to read the subscription.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/azure-dev-tools/HEAD/plugins/canvas-authoring/README.md