CanvasCLI

SKILL.md

canvas-cli

Use canvas-cli for Canvas LMS — courses, assignments, grades, submissions, discussions, files, and more. Uses SAML SSO with TOTP (session cached after first login).

Setup (once)

canvas-cli configure

canvas-cli whoami

Common commands

Courses: canvas-cli courses

Course detail: canvas-cli courses

Course users: canvas-cli courses users

Assignments: canvas-cli assignments

Assignment detail: canvas-cli assignments

Grades overview: canvas-cli grades

Course grades: canvas-cli grades

Submission: canvas-cli submissions

Submit text: canvas-cli submit --text "content"

Submit URL: canvas-cli submit --url

Todo: canvas-cli todo

Upcoming: canvas-cli upcoming

Missing: canvas-cli missing

Calendar: canvas-cli calendar --start --end

Modules: canvas-cli modules

Module items: canvas-cli modules

Discussions: canvas-cli discussions

View discussion: canvas-cli discussions

Reply: canvas-cli discussions --reply "message"

Announcements: canvas-cli announcements [course]

Files: canvas-cli files

Download: canvas-cli download -o

Notifications: canvas-cli notifications

Debug login: canvas-cli debug-login

Notes

Session cookies are saved after first login — no TOTP needed on subsequent runs until session expires.

Use --json on any command for raw JSON output (useful for scripting/piping).

Use --per-page to control pagination (default 50).

Grades are color-coded: green (A), cyan (B), yellow (C), red (D/F).

Missing/overdue items are highlighted in red.

File sizes are human-readable (KB/MB/GB).

Config is stored at ~/.canvas-cli/config.json (permissions 0600).