elastic/cursor-plugins is a collection of Cursor plugins that give AI assistants access to Elastic documentation and guidance for Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Observability, and Security. Developers use it when working with Elastic products and related technologies. The catalogue lists these plugins' skills and documentation MCP tools.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/kibana-dashboardsnpx skills add elastic/cursor-plugins --skill kibana-dashboardsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/cursor-pluginsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/kibana-dashboards)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/kibana-dashboards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/kibana-dashboards.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00040 | $0.05073 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.02537 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.01015 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00507 |
Grade C, and why
kibana-dashboards scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh This is a copy
100% identical to kibana-dashboards — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Kibana Dashboards and Visualizations
Overview
The Kibana dashboards and visualizations APIs provide a declarative, Git-friendly format for defining dashboards and visualizations. Definitions are minimal, diffable, and suitable for version control and LLM-assisted generation.
Key Benefits:
- Minimal payloads (no implementation details or derivable properties)
- Easy to diff in Git
- Consistent patterns for GitOps workflows
- Designed for LLM one-shot generation
- Robust validation via OpenAPI spec
Version Requirement: Kibana 9.4+ (SNAPSHOT)
Important Caveats
ES|QL Visualizations: ES|QL-based visualizations cannot be created via
/api/visualizations. They must be created as inline panels within dashboards using the Dashboard API.Inline vs Saved Object References: When embedding visualization panels in dashboards, prefer inline definitions over
ref_idreferences. Inline definitions are more reliable and self-contained.
Quick Start
Environment Configuration
Kibana connection is configured via environment variables. Run node scripts/kibana-dashboards.js test to verify the
connection. If the test fails, suggest these setup options to the user, then stop. Do not try to explore further until a
successful connection test.
Option 1: Elastic Cloud (recommended for production)
export KIBANA_CLOUD_ID="deployment-name:base64encodedcloudid"
export KIBANA_API_KEY="base64encodedapikey"
Option 2: Direct URL with API Key
export KIBANA_URL="https://your-kibana:5601"
export KIBANA_API_KEY="base64encodedapikey"
Option 3: Basic Authentication
export KIBANA_URL="https://your-kibana:5601"
export KIBANA_USERNAME="elastic"
export KIBANA_PASSWORD="changeme"
Option 4: Local Development with start-local
Use start-local to spin up Elasticsearch/Kibana locally, then source the
generated .env:
curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh
source elastic-start-local/.env
export KIBANA_URL="$KB_LOCAL_URL"
export KIBANA_USERNAME="elastic"
export KIBANA_PASSWORD="$ES_LOCAL_PASSWORD"
What ships with it
13 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- assets/bar-chart-esql.json 443 B
- assets/dashboard-basic.json 391 B
- assets/dashboard-with-visualizations.json 3.6 KB
- assets/datatable.json 341 B
- assets/demo-dashboard.json 6.3 KB
- assets/ecommerce-analytics-dashboard.json 11 KB
- assets/line-chart-timeseries.json 632 B
- assets/metric-esql.json 227 B
- package.json 218 B
- references/chart-types-reference.md 13 KB
- references/dashboard-api-reference.md 9.6 KB
- references/visualizations-api-reference.md 2.6 KB
- scripts/kibana-dashboards.js 28 KB runs code
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 495 lines · 40 tokens per session scan C 5cadbad60065
kibana-dashboards is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/cursor-plugins (31 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 5,073 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to kibana-dashboards, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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