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write-layouts from mendixlabs/mxcli is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mendixlabs/mxcli/write-layouts@git:20261027.09b2c82

Pins git:20261027.09b2c82 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
mendixlabs/mxcli
Path
.claude/skills/mendix/write-layouts/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
14
Latest version
git:20261027.09b2c82, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
20,101 bytes
Repository stars
137
License
Apache-2.0

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, when copying an Atlas layout into a module you own, or when building a layout on top of another one (a nested layout).

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

<!-- skill-index: generated by scripts/skill-index.py; make check-skill-index -->
## Find it fast

`sed -n '<from>,<to>p' SKILL.md` one section rather than reading the file;
`./mxcli syntax <topic>` answers *how do I write this* for a fraction of either.

| lines | section |
|---|---|
| 30-134 | Do not edit Atlas_Core |
| 135-194 | Syntax |
| 195-234 | The four things only a layout has |
| 235-246 | Layout type, and why there is no `native:` flag |
| 247-268 | The layout class is load-bearing |
| 269-328 | Gotchas |
| 329-341 | Validate |
| 342-354 | What `mxcli new` scaffolds |
| 355-357 | Layouts (SHOW/DESCRIBE/CREATE [OR REPLACE] LAYOUT) |

<!-- /skill-index -->
# 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
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mendixlabs/mxcli/write-layouts@sha256:abeaccd01fa21d6c

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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Source

GitHub

mendixlabs/mxcli · 137 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gvqswwvo5mvqgt2c
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mendixlabs/mxcli/write-layouts
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/abeaccd01fa21d6c3b9c7f26308da52ba50f93692e245f011e209122aedaf99f

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