# layer-workflows

A skill for running saved Layer Blueprint workflows: it finds a pipeline in the workspace, reads its input schema, estimates the price and tracks the steps.

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

Reach for this skill when a task needs a multi-step pipeline a studio already built and published in Blueprint, not a single generation. The agent calls `list_workflows` with the workspace id and a `fulltext` filter to find the right workflow, instead of improvising a sequence of Forge runs.

The input schema is the contract. `list_workflows` returns a JSON schema per workflow, and you pass exactly what it declares. Two spots trip people up: files go in as a `file_id` (upload first or reuse one from an earlier run, a URL will not do), and a style input wants a reference set `set_id` from `list_reference_sets`, not a `base_model_id`. When a required input has no obvious value, ask the user. A run that finishes with the wrong input still costs full price.

\`estimate_workflow_price` returns the price without executing. Above 20 CUs the skill says to wait for an explicit yes. Then `execute_workflow` hands back a `run_id` and `poll_interval_seconds`, while `get_workflow_run` reports `PENDING`, `RUNNING`, `SUCCESS`, `FAILURE` or `CANCELLED`. Workflows run longer than single generations, so report progress as completed steps over total. `cancel_workflow_run` stops a run and releases reserved Creative Units; units already consumed are not refunded.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- find a published pipeline for a task instead of wiring steps by hand
- read a workflow's input schema and pass exactly what it declares
- see the price of a run before it spends Creative Units
- track step progress on a long run
- cancel a run and release reserved units

## Example prompts
- find a character turnaround workflow in this workspace
- estimate the price of this workflow with my inputs
- run the pipeline and report how many steps are done

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: layer-workflows
description: "Use when running a saved Layer Blueprint workflow rather than a single generation: discovering what workflows a workspace has, reading a workflow's input schema, estimating and executing a run, polling its steps, or cancelling it. Also when a repeatable multi-step pipeline exists for a task, when the user names a workflow, or when a workflow input expects a style or a file. Keywords: workflow, blueprint, pipeline, app, multi-step, run, node graph."
license: MIT
---

# Layer Workflows

## Overview

A workflow is a multi-step pipeline a studio built in Layer's Blueprint editor and published. Where
Forge runs one model with parameters you choose, a workflow runs a graph someone already designed,
tested, and standardised. When one exists for the task, it is usually the better answer: it encodes
decisions the studio has already made.

Call `get_workflow_instructions` before the first workflow run in a session. The shared loop and the
spend gate 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 one first

Before building a multi-step sequence out of Forge runs, call `list_workflows` with the workspace id
and the `fulltext` filter set to what the user is trying to make. Results come back ordered by
relevance. A studio that has a published pipeline for character turnarounds does not want an
improvised one, and the improvised version will not match the assets already in the game.

This is worth one cheap read-only call at the start of any task with more than one generation step.

## The input schema is the contract

Every workflow defines its own inputs, and `list_workflows` returns the full JSON schema per
workflow. Treat that schema as the source of truth, not the workflow's name or description. Two
workflows that both say "character sheet" can take entirely different inputs.

Read it before composing the run, and pass exactly what it declares. Two input types have traps:

- **Files.** Upload first and pass the returned `file_id`, or pass the `file_id` an earlier run
  already produced. Never pass a URL where the schema wants a file id.
- **Styles.** A style input takes a reference set's `set_id` from `list_reference_sets`. A
  `base_model_id` is not a valid value there, and passing one fails in a way that reads like a
  workflow bug.
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