Skills
Iteration Layer skills are reusable instruction bundles for AI coding agents. They package product guidance, workflow patterns, and API references so agents can build with Iteration Layer without rediscovering the same setup steps in every session.
The public skills repository is available on GitHub: iterationlayer/skills.
What Skills Are For
Skills help AI agents understand how to use Iteration Layer APIs in realistic workflows:
- Convert documents and images to markdown before extracting structured data.
- Extract typed fields from documents, receipts, invoices, contracts, and websites.
- Transform images before composing them into generated assets.
- Generate documents, spreadsheets, and images from structured intermediate data.
- Keep generated code aligned with Iteration Layer authentication, file input, and response conventions.
Use skills when you want an agent to build an integration, prototype an automation, or explain an API workflow with the same assumptions your team uses.
Repository
Browse the repository at github.com/iterationlayer/skills.
The repository contains agent-facing skill files that can be copied into tools that support skill-style instruction bundles. Each skill is designed to be small enough for an agent to load when it needs Iteration Layer context, without bloating every prompt.
How Skills Fit With Other Integrations
Skills complement the other Iteration Layer integration surfaces:
| Integration | Best for |
|---|---|
| MCP | Letting AI agents call Iteration Layer APIs directly as tools. |
| SDKs | Building production applications in TypeScript, Python, and Go. |
| n8n | Building no-code and low-code workflow automations. |
| Skills | Giving coding agents reusable product and workflow instructions. |
For interactive agent workflows, combine skills with MCP. The skill gives the agent guidance; MCP gives it callable tools.
For production workflows, use skills to prototype the integration and then move the resulting code to one of the SDKs.
Common Skill Workflows
Document Workflow Prototyping
Use a skill to help an agent design a workflow that converts a file to markdown, extracts structured data, and generates a report or spreadsheet.
Typical APIs: Document to Markdown, Document Extraction, Document Generation, Sheet Generation
Agent Tool Setup
Use a skill to explain when an agent should call the hosted MCP tools and how those tools map to SDK methods.
Typical integrations: MCP, SDKs
Automation Buildout
Use a skill to guide an agent through n8n or backend automation patterns, including file inputs, credit usage, and webhook-ready async calls.
Typical integrations: n8n, Webhooks, Credits & Pricing