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canva-edit-design
Make edits to an existing Canva design — change or fix text, replace/insert/delete images and videos, reformat text (size, weight, style, color, alignment, lists, line height), reposition or resize elements, and update the title. Use when the user wants to change, edit, update, fix, translate, replace, or reformat content in a specific Canva design. This is the safe edit engine that other Canva skills (e.g. implement-feedback) build on.
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# Canva Design Editing
The canonical, safe way to apply edits to an existing Canva design. Every Canva skill that mutates a design should follow this exact protocol: **start a transaction → perform operations → commit (with approval)**. Changes are draft-only until committed and are PERMANENTLY LOST if not committed.
## The Transaction Protocol (always these steps, in order)
1. **`Canva:start-editing-transaction`** — pass the `design_id`. Remember the returned `transaction_id` and the `pages` array; both are required by later calls. ALWAYS show the user the thumbnail(s) returned here.
2. **`Canva:perform-editing-operations`** — apply edits. Pass the `transaction_id`, the `pages` array from the previous response, the `page_index` of the first page being changed, and an `operations` array. Batch multiple operations into a single call wherever possible.
3. **`Canva:commit-editing-transaction`** — save. See the approval gate below. After committing, the `transaction_id` is invalid; a new edit needs a new transaction.
4. **`Canva:cancel-editing-transaction`** — discard the draft instead of saving (e.g. the user rejects the preview, or you opened a transaction only to inspect the design).
## Capabilities — what the API CAN and CANNOT do
### CAN (operations on `perform-editing-operations`)