using-boardstate

A guide for using Boardstate, a dashboard-building tool, through an AI coding agent. It covers connecting the tool, arranging tabs and widgets, linking data, and creating custom widgets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building or updating Boardstate dashboards, including their layout, widgets, data connections, and sandboxed custom widgets.
Why use it?
It helps the agent make valid dashboard changes and account for people editing the same dashboard at the same time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/100yenadmin/boardstate/using-boardstate
Any agent
npx skills add 100yenadmin/boardstate --skill using-boardstate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/100yenadmin/boardstate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.01370
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00137

Measured 3d ago against content hash b846fdc1c750, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-boardstate 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/using-boardstate/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Boardstate as an agent

You are composing a board: one validated JSON document of tabs, widgets, layout, and data bindings. Every mutation you make goes through boardstate_* tools; a human may be editing the same document live. Full reference: AGENTS.md.

If the tools aren't connected yet

claude mcp add boardstate -- npx -y @boardstate/mcp    # Claude Code
npx @boardstate/mcp --serve 4400                       # + a live page of the board

Claude Desktop: add {"mcpServers":{"boardstate":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","@boardstate/mcp"]}}}. State persists to $BOARDSTATE_STATE_DIR (default ~/.boardstate).

Bare-API harnesses (GLM, OpenAI-compatible, custom loops): either embed @boardstate/agent — its system prompt already includes these conventions — or paste this file into your system prompt and bridge the MCP tools yourself.

The composing loop

  1. Orient: boardstate_workspace_get — see what exists before adding to it.
  2. Catalog first: boardstate_widget_catalog returns a schema-valid example for every builtin. Copy a real example and modify it. Guessing props is the #1 cause of rejected calls; a rejection means re-read the catalog entry, not retry harder.
  3. Compose: boardstate_tab_createboardstate_widget_add. Grid is 12 columns: x + w ≤ 12, heights are rows (h 1–20). Prefer 2–4 substantial widgets over many tiny ones; stat cards in a row of 3–4 (w:3–4), charts and tables wide (w:6–12).
  4. Bind live data, don't paste snapshots: static (inline fixtures ≤ 8 KB) · file (host state dir) · rpc (whitelisted host method) · stream (live push — tickers, logs) · computed (derive from other bindings) · mcp (granted external tool, reads only). If a value will change, it belongs in a binding.
  5. Review your work: boardstate_design_review screenshots and critiques the board — run it after composing and fix what it flags. Then boardstate_widget_update ({tab, id, patch}) or boardstate_widget_move to tighten the layout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 3d ago First seen · 95 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A b846fdc1c750

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-boardstate is a skill published in the GitHub repository 100yenadmin/boardstate (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,370 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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