# Layer Agent Skills

> 14 Agent Skills that teach the creative craft of directing Layer's 300+ models — which model for the task, what a prompt must name, and why a result is not landing.

Install: `npx skills add layerai/skills --skill "*"` — the `--skill "*"` is required, because the bare command opens a picker with nothing preselected.
Claude Code, in one step including the MCP server: `/plugin marketplace add layerai/skills`
Source: https://github.com/layerai/skills (MIT)
Hosts: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and any agent that reads a `SKILL.md`.

## Prerequisite

These skills drive the Layer MCP server at `https://mcp.app.layer.ai/mcp` (Streamable HTTP, OAuth with a Layer account, no API key). The skills carry the procedure; the server is what carries it out, so the pack does nothing on its own. Add it once: `claude mcp add --transport http Layer https://mcp.app.layer.ai/mcp`

Other clients and Personal Access Tokens: https://layer.ai/docs/mcp/setup

## Getting started

Connect to Layer and learn the generation loop every other skill builds on: model discovery, the spend gate, uploads, and polling.

- **layer** — Choosing a base model, pricing a run in Creative Units before it spends them, uploading references, polling, and recovering when a call comes back wrong. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer/SKILL.md)

## Direction

Agree a look before generating at volume: moodboards, storyboards, colour, era, and framing.

- **layer-art-direction** — Moodboards, storyboards with one beat a panel, a pinned palette, and naming a style or era precisely enough to generate against. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-art-direction/SKILL.md)

## Images

Generate stills and change the ones you already have: prompting, sizing, references, masked edits, reframing, upscaling, and layers.

- **layer-image** — Concept art, key art, icons and marketing stills — what a prompt has to name, and how to make a set of images share one look. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-image/SKILL.md)
- **layer-image-editing** — Masked edits, outpainting, reframing, relighting, restyling, background removal, splitting into layers, and upscaling. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-image-editing/SKILL.md)

## Game art

Art that has to sit in a system: characters and casts, environments and parallax, game UI, pixel sprites and sheets, and seamless textures.

- **layer-game-assets** — A cast that stays on-model across a dozen images, environments and parallax layers, and icons that still read at 64px. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-game-assets/SKILL.md)
- **layer-pixel-art** — Sprites on a real grid rather than blurred ones, walk cycles, and packing frames into a sheet or cutting one back up. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-pixel-art/SKILL.md)
- **layer-textures** — Materials that repeat without a visible seam, without an obvious motif across the surface, and without lighting baked in to fight the engine. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-textures/SKILL.md)

## Video and audio

Motion and sound: animating stills, camera and loops, sound effects, music, speech, and cutting shots into one finished video.

- **layer-video** — Animating a still, camera motion, extending a clip, loops, lip sync, and planning a multi-shot ad, trailer, or cutscene. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-video/SKILL.md)
- **layer-audio** — Sound effects without unwanted ambience, music with structure and length control, and choosing a voice and delivery for narration. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-audio/SKILL.md)
- **layer-video-timeline** — Sequencing generated shots, transitions, captions, a logo or CTA, and rendering the whole thing to one deliverable file. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-video-timeline/SKILL.md)

## 3D

Meshes for a game engine: generation from text or image, remeshing, retexturing, rigging, and animation.

- **layer-3d** — Text or image to mesh, quad against triangle output, a polygon budget, PBR textures, rigging, and animating what comes back. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-3d/SKILL.md)

## Consistency and pipelines

Hold one look across a whole project with trained reference sets, and run the Blueprint workflows a studio has already built.

- **layer-reference-sets** — When to train a LoRA rather than attach a reference, what to curate into it, what weight to run it at, and how to tell when it is being ignored. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-reference-sets/SKILL.md)
- **layer-workflows** — Finding the pipelines your team already built, reading their inputs, estimating a run, and following it to the end. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-workflows/SKILL.md)

## Review

Judge a batch before it ships: scoring rules, verdicts, and reviewing a set against the brief.

- **layer-quality** — Scoring generated files against a workspace's own rules, reading verdicts back, and choosing which candidate to deliver. (https://github.com/layerai/skills/blob/main/skills/layer-quality/SKILL.md)

## How this relates to Layer's published skills

Layer serves 6 further skills from the product itself, at https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json. Those teach platform mechanics, REST first: authentication, connecting a client, the request shape, polling, training, and workspace administration. This pack is the craft layer above them and does not restate any of it. The two are designed to be installed together.

- layer-api-authentication: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-api-authentication/SKILL.md
- layer-connect-mcp: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-connect-mcp/SKILL.md
- layer-generate-assets: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-generate-assets/SKILL.md
- layer-manage-workspace: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-manage-workspace/SKILL.md
- layer-run-workflows: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-run-workflows/SKILL.md
- layer-train-custom-style: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/layer-train-custom-style/SKILL.md

## Billing

The pack is free and MIT-licensed. Generations an agent runs while following it consume Creative Units from your workspace balance, exactly as in the Layer app — there is no separate charge and no extra per-seat cost. The skills price a run before executing it and stop for confirmation past a threshold, and they never hard-code a model id: they ask the workspace what it can run.

Pricing: https://layer.ai/pricing

## Links

- Agent Skills landing page: https://layer.ai/skills
- Repository: https://github.com/layerai/skills
- Published platform skills: https://layer.ai/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- MCP server: https://layer.ai/mcp
- MCP tool reference: https://layer.ai/docs/mcp/tools
- Command-line interface: https://layer.ai/cli
- REST API: https://layer.ai/docs
- Models: https://layer.ai/models