# layer-quality

Scores generated Layer files against a workspace's scoring rules and helps pick what to deliver. Useful before handing off a batch.

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- Author: layerai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/layerai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-30
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## What it does

The skill takes over when you have to decide whether Layer output is ready to ship. It drives three tools: `list_output_scoring_rules` returns the rules in force for a workspace or project, `score_files` queues a batch for scoring, and `get_file_scores` reads the verdicts recorded on one file.

The contract around `score_files` is easy to misread. It is asynchronous, so it acknowledges the queued run rather than returning results, and you poll `get_file_scores` afterwards. An empty `scores` list means not judged yet, not a zero. Scoring is billed: every file and rule pair spends Creative Units, and no `estimate_*` tool prices it. Re-scoring a file appends a fresh verdict instead of replacing the old one, so a rerun after a call that "returned nothing" is a double spend. Read `get_file_scores` first.

When no rules exist, the skill says so instead of implying the output passed a gate. Review then works back through the brief: stated constraints, the size and context the asset ships in, and for a set, all candidates laid out together, because drift between siblings only shows side by side. Generation itself lives in the `layer` skill; if it is missing from your available skills, the skill asks you to install it with `npx skills add layerai/skills --skill <name>`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-quality -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/layer-quality/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-quality -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-quality -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install layerai/skills layer-quality
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-quality -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/layerai/skills --path skills/layer-quality
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-quality -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/layerai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check a batch of generated files against workspace rules
- read back the verdicts recorded on one file
- pick the candidate closest to the brief
- spot drift across a set before handoff
- tell "not judged yet" apart from a failing score

## Example prompts
- Score these eight icons against the workspace scoring rules and tell me what fails
- Read the scores on this `file_id` — was it judged in an earlier session?
- From this batch, pick the candidate closest to the brief, not the most striking one

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: layer-quality
description: "Use when judging Layer output before it ships: scoring generated files against a workspace's output scoring rules, reading back verdicts on a file, reviewing a batch against the brief, or choosing which candidate to deliver. Also when a studio has automated quality standards, or a set must be checked for consistency before handoff. Keywords: quality gate, scoring, review, batch, verdict, approve, QA, consistency check."
license: MIT
---

# Layer Quality Review

## Overview

Generation is not delivery. A batch comes back, and something has to decide which of it is usable,
against the brief and against whatever standards the studio has already set. Layer records those
standards as output scoring rules, and exposes three tools:

| Tool                        | Purpose                                                  |
| --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `list_output_scoring_rules` | The rules in force for a workspace, optionally a project |
| `score_files`               | Queue a scoring run. Asynchronous and billed             |
| `get_file_scores`           | Read the verdicts recorded on one file                   |

Generation mechanics are in the `layer` skill. If a sibling skill named here is missing from your
available skills, ask the user to install it (`npx skills add layerai/skills --skill <name>`);
unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap.

## Check for rules before inventing standards

Call `list_output_scoring_rules` before judging anything by eye. Each rule is a standard the studio
has written down, and a delivery that contradicts one is wrong however good it looks. Rules can be
scoped to a project as well as a workspace, so pass the project when the work belongs to one.

When rules exist, `score_files` queues the batch and `get_file_scores` reads the verdicts back.

Three things about that contract are easy to get wrong and expensive to get wrong:

- **`score_files` is asynchronous.** It returns as soon as the run is queued, not with results. Poll
  `get_file_scores` afterwards; a large request takes a few minutes.
- **An empty `scores` list means not judged yet, not a zero.** Treating the queue acknowledgement as
  a verdict, or an empty list as a failing score, is the defect this contract invites.
- **It is billed, and there is no estimate tool for it.** Every file and rule pair is a vision-model
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