Project skills

Project skills travel with a drawing. They live in a folder next to the drawing file, so anyone who opens that drawing — you on another machine, or a colleague — automatically gets the same skills. This is the best place for standards that belong to a particular project or client.

Where they live

In the same folder as your drawing, create a .cizgen/skills folder and put one markdown file per skill inside it:

my-project/
├─ site-plan.dwg
└─ .cizgen/
   └─ skills/
      ├─ site-standard.md
      └─ layer-standard.md

Each .md file becomes one skill, named after the file. It shows up in the panel with a Project badge, ready to mention with /.

The skill file format

A skill file is plain markdown with a small header (front matter) and a body of guidance:

---
name: layer-standard
description: Our office layer names and colors.
---

When creating or changing layers, follow our standard:

- Walls go on `A-WALL` (color 7).
- Text and notes go on `A-ANNO-TEXT`.
- Never draw on layer `0`.

If a required layer doesn't exist, create it before drawing on it.

• name — how you'll mention it (/layer-standard). Keep it short, lowercase, with dashes.
• description — a one-line summary shown in the skill list.
• Body — write the guidance in plain language, as if briefing a colleague. Be specific.

Let Cizgen write one for you

You don't have to hand-write skill files. Cizgen can create a project skill for you — most usefully, a reusable inspection standard that it can then check drawings against automatically. See Inspection standards.