Hanzo AI for Canva

A Canva Apps SDK side-panel app that puts Hanzo's models next to your design. Non-designers, marketers, and SMBs — Canva's core audience — get copywriting help without leaving the canvas:

• Generate copy — headlines, captions, and marketing copy from a short brief.
• Rewrite selected text — tighten, restyle, or restate the text you selected, in place.
• Translate — the selected text into any language, tone preserved.
• Content ideas — a numbered list of angles for a topic; click one to add it.
• Ask — a question about the design or its copy.

It reads the current selection and page via @canva/design, runs the model gateway through the published @hanzo/ai headless client over api.hanzo.ai, and adds or replaces text elements with the result. You paste your own Hanzo hk- key; the app holds no secret and calls no /api/ path — only api.hanzo.ai/v1/....

Architecture — one way to do everything

| Module | Responsibility | Depends on | | --- | --- | --- | | src/design-core.ts | PURE. The action catalog, prompt builders, design-context assembly + truncation, and response parsing. No SDK, no DOM. Fully unit-tested. | — | | src/hanzo.ts | Thin wrapper over @hanzo/ai — the only place the model gateway is called. | @hanzo/ai | | src/canva.ts | Thin adapter over @canva/design — read the selection, replace it, insert a new text element. | @canva/design | | src/config.ts | Gateway base URL, default model, context budget, hk- key guard. | — | | src/app.tsx | The App UI Kit panel — binds the three above to widgets; holds only UI state. | @canva/app-ui-kit | | src/index.tsx | Entry — mounts App under AppUiProvider. | react-dom, @canva/app-ui-kit |

The design-core mirrors @hanzo/figma's design-core so the two design apps expose the same five actions with the same context/prompt/parse contracts.

The read-selection → insert-text flow

1. On mount, canva.ts onSelectionChange subscribes to selection.registerOnChange({ scope: 'plaintext' }). Each change yields a SelectionSnapshot (count, joined text); the panel gates Rewrite / Translate on count > 0 and shows a preview of the selected text.
2. You pick an action, add a brief/question/language as needed, and press Run.
3. design-core.buildActionMessages(id, inputs, { selection }) resolves the action's task, fences the observed design as data (with an honest truncation note if it was cut), and returns the OpenAI-shaped message list.
4. hanzo.runChat(messages, { token, model }) calls @hanzo/ai chat.completions.create (non-streaming) and returns the assistant text.
5. design-core.parseCopy / parseIdeas strips code fences, wrapping quotes, and list markers into paste-ready text.
6. You press Replace selection (Rewrite → canva.replaceSelectedText, which reads a fresh draft, overwrites draft.contents[].text, and draft.save()s) or Add to design (everything else → canva.insertText → addElementAtCursor with a new TextElement). Ideas insert one line per click.

Develop locally

Prerequisites: Node 18+, pnpm, and a Canva account.

1. Create the app in the Canva Developer Portal

1. Go to https://www.canva.com/developers/apps and Create an app.
2. Under App details, copy the App ID.
3. Under Add features → Editing, enable the app to run in the editor side panel (this app needs the Design editing scope: read the selection, add/replace elements).
4. Under Configure your app, set the Development URL to the CLI/preview origin (default http://localhost:8080).

2. Configure

cd packages/canva
cp .env.template .env
# put your App ID into CANVA_APP_ID

3. Install, test, build

pnpm install            # from the repo root (workspace)
pnpm --filter @hanzo/canva test       # vitest — the pure design-core + hanzo shaping
pnpm --filter @hanzo/canva typecheck  # tsc --noEmit, strict
pnpm --filter @hanzo/canva build      # esbuild → dist/{index.html,app.js,app.css}

4. Preview in Canva

Serve the bundle and point the Developer Portal's Development URL at it. With the Canva CLI:

npx @canva/cli@latest login
pnpm --filter @hanzo/canva watch      # rebuilds dist/ on change
npx @canva/cli@latest apps preview    # opens the app in the Canva editor, hot-reloading

Open any design, launch Hanzo AI from the app side panel, paste your hk- key, pick a model, and run an action. Select text on the canvas to enable Rewrite and Translate.

Getting a Hanzo hk- key

Sign in at https://hanzo.id and mint an API key (prefixed hk-). The panel validates the prefix before use and sends it as the bearer to api.hanzo.ai. The key lives only in the panel's session state — it is never persisted or bundled.

Submit to the Canva Apps Marketplace

1. Finish and test the app in preview; ensure pnpm build is clean and dist/ loads.
2. Host dist/ on your production origin (behind hanzoai/ingress + the hanzoai/static plugin — never nginx/caddy) and set the app's production App source URL to it.
3. In the Developer Portal, complete App listing (name, icon, description, screenshots) and Submit for review.
4. Canva reviews for the requested scopes (Design editing here) and UX. Address feedback and resubmit; on approval the app is published to the Apps Marketplace.

Tests

test/design-core.test.ts covers the pure core: whitespace collapse, context assembly + budget truncation, message fencing (data vs. task, the truncation note, the no-context path), the five prompt builders (brief/tweak/language/count/question embedding and the count clamp), the id → messages path, and the response parsers (fence/quote stripping, idempotence, list-marker stripping). test/hanzo.test.ts asserts the @hanzo/ai request shaping against a mock client (model, stream:false, temperature, messages, abort signal, empty-content error, model listing). test/config.test.ts covers the /v1 endpoint builders and the hk- key guard.

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