generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://dev.acquia.com/llms.txt, https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/reference/canvas-cli.md,
  https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/canvas-components/quickstart.md,
  https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/reference/mcp-server.md,
  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@drupal-canvas/cli
provider: Acquia
providerId: acquia
description: >-
  Acquia's client-side component surface is Drupal Canvas: React components that live as code in the
  customer's own git repository, are pushed into a site's component library, and are then placed
  visually by editors in the Canvas editor. It is an inversion of the usual embeddable-widget model —
  the provider does not ship a component library to the customer; the customer ships components to
  the provider's editor, and the component contract is a component.yml schema rather than a script
  tag.
families:
  - id: canvas-code-components
    name: Drupal Canvas code components
    kind: authored-by-customer React components
    language: React (JSX/TSX)
    hosting: >-
      Source code in the customer's own git repository; built artifacts uploaded into the site's
      component library.
    schema: component.yml
    schema_docs: https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/reference/canvas-cli.md
    scaffold: npx canvas (project scaffolding); npx canvas agents-context to include agent context
    loader: '@drupal-canvas/cli'
    loader_registry: npm
    loader_version: 0.23.1
    loader_published: '2026-08-18'
    oauth_scopes: ['canvas:asset_library', 'canvas:js_component']
    quickstart: https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/canvas-components/quickstart.md
  - id: canvas-editor-surfaces
    name: Canvas editor page and region surfaces
    kind: hosted editing surface
    description: >-
      Pages and global page regions (header, footer) assembled from component instances. Regions are
      shared across every page using the active theme.
    agent_addressable: true
    agent_note: >-
      Uniquely for a visual page builder, the whole surface is addressable by an agent: the Source
      CMS MCP server exposes canvas://components, canvas://pages, canvas://page-regions and
      canvas://auto-saves as resources, plus 13 Canvas tools covering page creation, layout get/set,
      component add/move/remove, prop updates and region layout. See mcp/acquia-mcp.yml.
  - id: headless-frontends
    name: Headless frontend starters
    kind: framework starters consuming the Content API
    frameworks: [Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, TanStack Start]
    description: >-
      Scaffolded apps whose components editors then place in the Canvas editor, consuming content
      over JSON:API.
    quickstart: https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/get-content/quickstart.md
    deploy: https://dev.acquia.com/source-cms/deploy/quickstart.md
not_found:
  - kind: web components / custom elements
    note: No first-party custom-element or web-component library is published.
  - kind: hosted embeddable widget (script tag / iframe)
    note: >-
      No CDN-distributed drop-in widget was found. Acquia's client-side surface is the Canvas
      component model, not an embeddable script.