# layer-workflow-import

Converts third-party node graphs, exported pipelines, or prose descriptions into Layer Blueprint workflows. Helps migrate external AI pipelines directly into Layer.

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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-workflow-import/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-30
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## What it does

This skill rebuilds external pipelines, such as node-graph JSON files or canvas screenshots, using Layer node kinds. Instead of copying low-level blocks like samplers and empty latents, it condenses the machinery into single generation steps. Port schemas and available node types come directly from `get_blueprint_system_config`.

Graph checks run through `import_workflow` with `validate_only: true`. Whenever a connection requires a data conversion, the skill wires an intermediate transformer node. It can also upload sample inputs, verify costs using `estimate_workflow_price`, and poll the execution output.

Every imported workflow remains strictly private. Sharing requires manual action inside the Layer web interface. Without the companion skills `layer` and `layer-workflows`, your agent cannot enforce spend limits or trigger existing workflows.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add layerai/skills --skill layer-workflow-import -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-workflow-import/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- import external node-graph JSON files into Layer
- collapse low-level generative steps into single Layer nodes
- validate graph port types and schemas before publishing
- estimate pipeline execution cost in compute units

## Example prompts
- Import the ComfyUI pipeline from `workflow.json` into a Layer Blueprint.
- Convert this text-to-image description into a Layer workflow and test it with a sample prompt.
- Validate my node graph against the Layer system config and fix broken port connections.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: layer-workflow-import
description: "Use when bringing a workflow built in another tool into Layer: an exported workflow file, a node-graph JSON from any node editor, a screenshot of a node canvas, or a pipeline described in prose. Also when converting, porting, migrating or rebuilding a pipeline as a Layer Blueprint workflow. Keywords: import workflow, export file, node graph, node editor, convert, port, migrate, rebuild, blueprint."
license: MIT
---

# Layer Workflow Import

## Overview

Read what the source does, rebuild it from Layer's node kinds, and hand the whole graph to
`import_workflow`. The result is always private; sharing is a separate step in the Layer app. To run
a workflow that already exists, use `layer-workflows`. The spend gate and polling rules live 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.

## Translate intent, not nodes

Other tools expose the machinery; Layer exposes the task. A low-level text-to-image graph is a model
loader, a text encoder per prompt, an empty latent, a sampler and a decoder. In Layer that is one
generate node. Read what goes in, what each step does, and what comes out, then use the fewest Layer
nodes that do the same job.

How to read an unfamiliar source, and what common node patterns mean, is in
[references/sources.md](references/sources.md).

## Quick reference

| Step            | Tool                                          | Notes                                                        |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Learn the parts | `get_blueprint_system_config`                 | Node kinds, their ports and value schemas. Call once, reuse. |
| Pick models     | `list_base_models`, `get_base_model`          | Discover by use case. Never copy the source's model name.    |
| Sample files    | `request_file_upload_url` or `upload_file`    | Only for the proof run: a file input's value is a `file_id`. |
| Check the graph | `import_workflow` with `validate_only: true`  | Creates nothing. Fix every problem it reports.               |
| Import          | `import_workflow`                             | Publishes privately by default so it can run.                |
| Prove it runs   | `estimate_workflow_price`, `execute_workflow` | Run shape as in `layer-workflows`. Poll `get_workflow_run`.  |
| File it         | `list_projects`, then `project_id` on import  | Optional: land the workflow in a project for review.         |

## The graph

`graph` is an open object with three maps: `inputs` (parameter key to input parameter), `nodes` (node
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