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write-layouts is agent-read markdown (skill) from mendixlabs/mxcli: CREATE LAYOUT syntax — the frame a page is built on: scroll-container regions, the navigation tree, and the placeholders pages bind to. Use when a topbar, sidebar or page frame has to change, or when copying an Atlas layout into a module you own..

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# CREATE LAYOUT — the frame a page is built on

A **layout** is the frame every page renders inside: the topbar, the navigation
sidebar, and the hole the page's own content drops into. Until now it was the one
document mxcli could not author, which put the topbar out of reach of MDL.

## Do not edit Atlas_Core

Mendix's own documentation says it plainly: *"Do not change the supplied layouts.
Either create a separate module with the custom layouts, page templates, and
building blocks or create your own."* An Atlas layout lives in a Marketplace
module, and a Marketplace update replaces the module wholesale — every local edit
is gone, silently.

`CREATE LAYOUT` **refuses** a Marketplace module for that reason. Put your layout
in a module you own.

The usual starting point is a copy of an Atlas layout, and `describe` already
gives you one:

```bash
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "describe layout Atlas_Core.Atlas_Default" > mine.mdl
# edit the qualified name to your own module, then:
mxcli exec mine.mdl -p app.mpr
```

`DESCRIBE LAYOUT` emits re-executable MDL, so describe → rename → exec *is* the
copy operation. There is no `COPY DOCUMENT` verb and none is needed.
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mendixlabs/mxcli · 124 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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