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canva-branded-presentation

canva-branded-presentation

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About canva-branded-presentation

A skill for creating branded presentations in Canva from an outline, brief, or existing design. It guides content structuring, brand-kit selection, candidate review, and finalizing an editable presentation.

Key features

  1. 01Read content from text or designs
  2. 02Select a brand kit
  3. 03Build a slide plan
  4. 04Generate presentation candidates
  5. 05Finalize an editable design

Use cases

  1. 01Turning a brief into a presentation
  2. 02Adapting existing Canva content into slides
  3. 03Applying a selected brand kit
  4. 04Reviewing candidates before finalizing

MCP support

The skill uses Canva tools to read designs, list brand kits, generate design candidates, and create a design from a selected candidate.

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-skills --skill canva-branded-presentation

After installing, type/canva-branded-presentationin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

Canva Branded Presentation Creator

Create professional, on-brand presentations in Canva from user-provided outlines or briefs.

Workflow

  1. Get the content source

    • If the user provides text directly, use that as the outline/brief
    • If the user provides a Canva design ID directly (typically starts with D, e.g. DABcd1234ef), use it as design_id with Canva:start-editing-transaction to read its contents; do not use Canva:search-designs for a raw ID
    • If the user provides a Canva design link (e.g., https://www.canva.com/design/DAG.../...), extract the design ID from the URL and use Canva:start-editing-transaction to read its contents
    • If the user references a Canva doc by name, use Canva:search-designs to find it, then Canva:start-editing-transaction to read its contents

  2. List available brand kits

    • Call Canva:list-brand-kits to retrieve the user's brand kits
    • If only one brand kit exists, use it automatically without asking
    • If multiple brand kits exist, present the options and ask the user to select one

  3. Generate the presentation

    • Call Canva:generate-design with:
      • design_type: "presentation"
      • brand_kit_id: the selected brand kit ID
      • query: a detailed prompt following the presentation format below
    • Show the generated candidates to the user

  4. Finalize

    • Ask the user which candidate they prefer
    • Call Canva:create-design-from-candidate to create the editable design
    • Provide the user with the link to their new presentation

Presentation Query Format

Structure the query for Canva:generate-design with these sections:

Presentation Brief

  • Title: working title for the deck
  • Topic/Scope: 1-2 lines describing the subject
  • Key Messages: 3-5 main takeaways
  • Style Guide: tone and imagery style based on the brief

Narrative Arc One paragraph describing the story flow (e.g., Hook → Problem → Solution → Proof → CTA).

Slide Plan For each slide include:

  • Slide N — "Exact Title"
  • Goal: one sentence on the slide's purpose
  • Bullets (3-6): short, parallel phrasing with specifics
  • Visuals: explicit recommendation (chart type, diagram, image subject)
  • Speaker Notes: 2-4 sentences of narrative detail

Notes

  • If multiple brand kits exist, confirm selection before generating; if only one, use it automatically
  • If the outline is sparse, expand it into a complete slide plan with reasonable content
  • For briefs (narrative descriptions), extract key points and structure them into slides
  • Aim for clear, action-oriented slide titles
  • Autofill requires a Canva Enterprise plan

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