mcp-instructure-canvas

Canvas LMS MCP server with REST and GraphQL, file transfers, Telegram reminders, and optional local Codex/Claude agents. Guided setup and opt-in automation

A new way for AI to search for data
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v0.7.0latest release, 2026-10-28

Python 99.4%, Dockerfile 0.3%, Shell 0.3% · created 2026-10-13 · last push 2026-10-28

What XERJ indexed

Snapshot

91 files · 1.6 MB

The whole repository at commit fc3c813e76 (2026-10-23). main is 3 commits ahead.

Selected work

“accept Telegram approvals and preserve assignment context”. 8 files, 642 lines in src/canvas_mcp, tests, the project root.

Licence

The repository

MIT

LICENSE file checked at the pinned commit; the author agreed to inclusion.

The XERJ corpus

MIT, with credit

The author agreed by email on 2026-10-24. Same terms as the repository. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.

selected for the XERJ Corpus Hublicence clearedsuggested use: adapt with attribution

automationcanvas-lmsclaude-codecodexeducationgithub-actionsinstructuremcp

Example questions

The prompt

Paste it into your AI agent. It clones arthurcuri/mcp-instructure-canvas at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.

Search the GitHub repository arthurcuri/mcp-instructure-canvas with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/arthurcuri--mcp-instructure-canvas).
Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next:
1. xerj --help  (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh
2. git clone https://github.com/arthurcuri/mcp-instructure-canvas mcp-instructure-canvas && git -C mcp-instructure-canvas checkout fc3c813e76d028c2cfb4ae8df7303349f51129f2
3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data
4. xerj autoindex ./mcp-instructure-canvas --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix mcp-instructure-canvas --progress plain
5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200
Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt
Licence: MIT. Keep the copyright notice and credit the authors.

Related

Stats: GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-29. Snapshot: the git tree at the pinned commit. Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.