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How to integrate Canva MCP with Hermes

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Canva MCP is Canva's remote MCP server for accessing designs and content. It centralizes design assets and enables programmatic design workflows.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Canva account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Canva with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Canva

Ask your agent to connect to Canva, or simply request any Canva-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Canva connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Canva or request any Canva-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Canva MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Canva MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Canva account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Canva operations on your behalf.

Way Forward

With Canva connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Canva MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Cancel-editing-transaction

Cancel an editing transaction.

Comment-on-design

Add a comment on a Canva design.

Commit-editing-transaction

Commit an editing transaction.

Copy-design

Create a new Canva design by copying an existing design.

Create-design-from-brand-template

Create a new Canva design from a brand template.

Create-design-from-candidate

Create a new Canva design from a generation job candidate ID.

Create-folder

Create a new folder in Canva.

Export-design

Export a Canva design, doc, presentation, whiteboard, video, or other Canva content type to a downloadable file (PDF, JPG, PNG, PPTX, GIF, MP4, CSV).

Generate-design

Generate professionally designed content in Canva including visual designs (posters, social media posts, presentations, flyers) and text-based documents (memos, articles, newsletters, proposals, reports, business plans, requirements documents).

Get-assets

Get metadata for particular assets by a list of their IDs.

Get-brand-template-dataset

Gets the dataset schema of a brand template.

Get-design

Get detailed information about a Canva design, such as a doc, presentation, whiteboard, video, or sheet.

Get-design-candidates

Internal tool for widget UI polling.

Get-design-content

Get the text content of a doc, presentation, whiteboard, social media post, and other designs in Canva (except sheets, as it does not return data in sheets).

Get-design-pages

Get a list of pages in a Canva design, such as a presentation.

Get-design-thumbnail

Get the thumbnail for a particular page of the design in the specified editing transaction.

Get-export-formats

Get the available export formats for a Canva design — the formats (PDF, JPG, PNG, PPTX, GIF, MP4, CSV) supported for exporting it, and which pages support each.

Get-presenter-notes

Get the presenter notes from a presentation design in Canva.

Import-design-from-url

ALWAYS use this tool when the user's message contains an HTTPS URL and their intent is to create a Canva design from it.

List-brand-kits

Get a list of brand kits available to the user.

List-comments

Get a list of comments for a particular Canva design.

List-folder-items

List items in a Canva folder.

List-replies

Get a list of replies for a specific comment on a Canva design.

Move-item-to-folder

Move items (designs, folders, images) to a specified Canva folder

Perform-editing-operations

Perform editing operations on a design.

Reply-to-comment

Reply to an existing comment on a Canva design.

Resize-design

Resize a Canva design to a preset or custom size.

Resolve-shortlink

Resolves a Canva shortlink ID to its target URL.

Search-brand-templates

Searches and lists for templates available to the current user.

Search-designs

Search docs, presentations, videos, whiteboards, sheets, and other designs in Canva, except for templates or brand templates.

Search-folders

Search the user's folders and folders shared with the user based on folder names and tags.

Start-editing-transaction

Start an editing session for a Canva design.

Upload-asset-from-url

Upload an asset (e.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Canva MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Canva tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Canva and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Canva tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Canva scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Canva data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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