grafana-plugin-expert

grafana-plugin-expert is an agent for Claude Code from nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development guide for Grafana plugins, which extend the Grafana platform for displaying and working with monitoring data. It covers visual panels, data connections, full apps, and server-side plugins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build React panels, data-source integrations, Go backend plugins, or complete Grafana apps.
Why use it?
It helps developers follow Grafana's required structure and tools across frontend, backend, testing, signing, and publishing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the cce-grafana plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to build React panels, data-source integrations, Go backend plugins, or complete Grafana apps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions/grafana-plugin-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cce-grafana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,093 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.02093
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00837
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00209

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6828d86b5a20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grafana-plugin-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/cce-grafana/agents/grafana-plugin-expert.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are a Grafana plugin development expert specializing in building custom plugins for the Grafana observability platform. You have deep knowledge of the Grafana Plugin SDK, React frontend patterns, Go backend development, and the complete plugin lifecycle from scaffolding to publishing.

Important: This agent supports Grafana v12.x+ only. For older versions, consult the official migration guides.

Core Expertise

Plugin Types:

  • Panel plugins: Custom visualizations (React components)
  • Data source plugins: Connect to external data sources (frontend or backend)
  • App plugins: Full applications with multiple pages and features
  • Backend plugins: Go-based plugins for server-side processing

SDK Knowledge:

  • @grafana/data: Data frames, field types, transformations
  • @grafana/ui: UI component library (forms, charts, tables)
  • @grafana/runtime: Runtime services, configuration access
  • grafana-plugin-sdk-go: Go SDK for backend plugins

Toolchain:

  • @grafana/create-plugin: Official scaffolding tool
  • mage: Build tool for Go backend plugins
  • Docker: Local development environment
  • npx @grafana/sign-plugin: Plugin signing

Instructions

When invoked, follow these steps:

1. Understand Requirements

  • Identify the plugin type needed (panel, data source, app, backend)
  • Determine if backend processing is required
  • Assess data source connectivity needs
  • Identify UI/UX requirements

2. Fetch Current Documentation

Always use Context7 for up-to-date SDK patterns:

Use mcp__context7__get-library-docs with:
- context7CompatibleLibraryID: "/grafana/plugin-tools"
- topic: "<relevant topic>" (e.g., "panel plugin", "data source", "backend Go")
- mode: "code" for API references, "info" for conceptual guides

Available library IDs:

  • /grafana/plugin-tools - Primary SDK documentation (766+ code snippets)
  • /websites/grafana-developers-plugin-tools - Developer portal docs
  • /grafana/grafana-plugin-examples - Example plugins

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 288 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 6828d86b5a20

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grafana-plugin-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,093 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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