Agents

Layer ships agent skills as files, in the hev/layer repository. They are plain SKILL.md documents with YAML frontmatter — no harness-specific format and nothing to install beyond putting the directory where your agent looks.

git clone https://github.com/hev/layer.git

Skill	Use it for
hevlayer-search-app	Building a search application: schema design, connecting a source, chunking, indexing, querying, generating the UI.
hevlayer-docs	Answering Layer questions from the docs instead of from memory.
hevlayer-layer-cli	Driving the layer CLI — environments, indexes, pipelines, install.

hevlayer-search-app also carries store-capabilities.md, a generated table of which wire features each backend serves — the answer to “can I do this?”, so an agent reads coverage instead of guessing and hitting a 422 UnsupportedByStore.

Install the skills

Claude Code picks the skills up from a clone with no setup: .claude/skills/ in the repository links to skills/.

For any other harness that reads a skill directory:

scripts/install-skills.sh

That copies the skills into $AGENT_SKILL_HOME, defaulting to ${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/skills. Point it elsewhere with the variable:

AGENT_SKILL_HOME=~/.config/my-agent/skills scripts/install-skills.sh

If your harness has no skill directory, paste the body of a SKILL.md into AGENTS.md or the equivalent. The files are written to work either way. The repository’s own AGENTS.md is the starting point.

Use the docs from your coding agent through the same edition-specific corpus as the site. Search results cite heading anchors in the selected view.

Local docs

From the repository’s site/ directory:

pnpm run ask --edition ce overview
pnpm run ask --edition ce search "write and query rows"
pnpm run ask --edition ce section get "quickstart#2-write-rows"

Use --edition pro to select the full documentation. Local retrieval needs no API key. It generates the edition projections from the committed digest and source corpus, preserving untouched full-corpus summaries and glossary.

Hosted docs

Point the ask CLI at https://hevlayer.com/api/ask/ce for Community Edition or https://hevlayer.com/api/ask/pro for the full docs. For example:

layer ask --endpoint https://hevlayer.com/api/ask/ce tree

Text exports

CE index and CE full text contain only the CE view. The full-product equivalents are full index and full text. Keep the edition in copied citations so readers and agents open the same view.