Canvas MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOG_LEVEL | No | Logging level for the server, e.g. debug. | |
| CANVAS_DOMAIN | Yes | Your Canvas domain, e.g. your_school.instructure.com. | |
| MCP_HTTP_HOST | No | Streamable HTTP host to bind to. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. | 127.0.0.1 |
| MCP_HTTP_PATH | No | Streamable HTTP path for the MCP endpoint. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. | /mcp |
| MCP_HTTP_PORT | No | Streamable HTTP port to listen on. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. | 3000 |
| MCP_TRANSPORT | No | Transport mode for the MCP server: 'stdio' (default) or 'streamable-http'. | stdio |
| CANVAS_TIMEOUT | No | Timeout for Canvas API requests. Mentioned as a troubleshooting variable for timeouts. | |
| CANVAS_API_TOKEN | Yes | Your Canvas API access token used to authenticate with the Canvas LMS API. | |
| MCP_HTTP_STATEFUL | No | Whether the streamable HTTP transport is stateful. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. | true |
| MCP_HTTP_JSON_RESPONSE | No | Whether the streamable HTTP transport returns JSON responses. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. | true |
| MCP_HTTP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS | No | Allowed origins for streamable HTTP CORS. Used when MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http. |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
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Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
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Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
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Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
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