Canvas LMS agents for Codex and Claude Code need workflow memory

Canvas LMS agents usually start with an access question: Can the agent read assignments, modules, files, pages, and due dates? That matters. Canvas MCP servers and API clients are useful because they give an agent something concrete to inspect. But access is not the whole workflow. For recurring coursework, the expensive part is often not fetching the Canvas assignment. It is remembering the course pattern: where the real spec usually lives what files or readings need to be gathered what output…