create-dashboard

create-dashboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ccfos/nightingale. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,678 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating Nightingale monitoring dashboards, which are pages of charts for viewing system or application health.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create dashboards for systems such as Linux, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Ceph, Oracle, Nginx, or Windows, using categraf or exporter metrics.
Why use it?
It helps choose an existing integration template when one fits, or assemble a custom dashboard when no suitable template exists.

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/ccfos/nightingale/create-dashboard
Any agent
npx skills add ccfos/nightingale --skill create-dashboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccfos/nightingale

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,678 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 $0.00026 $0.02678
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01339
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00268

Measured 4d ago against content hash c9520e6e4c20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-dashboard 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 4d 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.

aiagent/skill/embedded/builtin/create-dashboard/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Nightingale (N9E) Dashboard Creation

There are two paths to create a dashboard. Prefer path A (import an integration template), since templates are hand-tuned, validated, finished products with quality far higher than hand-assembled ones; only fall back to path B when there is no ready-made template or the user wants custom metrics.

When the same component often has both categraf and exporter templates, prefer categraf: first probe whether the categraf metrics have data, use the categraf template if you can query them, and only fall back to exporter if you cannot (see path A step 3 for details).

Scenario Which tool to use
The monitoring topic has a ready-made template in integrations (Linux / MySQL / Redis / Kafka / PostgreSQL / Elasticsearch / Ceph / Oracle / Nginx / Windows …) import_dashboard_template (preferred)
Custom metrics, no ready-made template, or the user explicitly wants custom panels create_dashboard

Step 1 (common to both paths): Determine the business group and datasource

  • Call list_busi_groups to get the list of business groups
  • Call list_datasources to get the list of datasources, and find the datasource ID of the Prometheus type
  • If the conversation context has already preselected busi_group_id / datasource_id, use them directly and do not call list_* again

Business group selection rules

  1. If the user explicitly specified a business group name or ID, use it directly
  2. Otherwise, in priority order: a. Prefer the business group with is_default: true (usually "Default Busi Group" or a group whose name contains "default") b. If there is only one business group, use it directly c. If there are multiple candidates and none is the default, do not blindly take the first one; list them in your reply and let the user confirm

Path A: Import an integration template (preferred)

import_dashboard_template reads the complete template under integrations/ (preserving layout, thresholds, units, overrides, and value mappings in full), and automatically rewrites the template's datasource binding onto the Prometheus datasource you chose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 4d ago First seen · 197 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c9520e6e4c20

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create-dashboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccfos/nightingale (13,276 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,678 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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