gcx is a command-line tool that lets people and AI coding agents manage and inspect Grafana Cloud, Enterprise, and open-source instances. It provides access to dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces, with workflows for alert investigation, dashboard management, GitOps, and observability setup. Its catalogue entries provide agent instructions and extensions for using gcx.
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 skills add grafana/gcx --skill scaffold-projectgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/gcxWrote 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.
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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 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.00519 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00208 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00104 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
scaffold-project 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 14d 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.
What it actually says
Scaffold a gcx Project
Scaffold a new Go project for managing Grafana resources as code using
gcx dev scaffold.
Prerequisites
Verify gcx is installed:
gcx --version
If missing, see the setup-gcx skill.
Scaffolding
Interactive Mode (recommended for first-time users)
gcx dev scaffold
Prompts for:
- Project name - becomes the directory name (kebab-cased)
- Go module path - e.g.
github.com/myorg/my-dashboards
Non-Interactive Mode
gcx dev scaffold --project my-dashboards --go-module-path github.com/myorg/my-dashboards
What Gets Generated
my-dashboards/
├── .github/workflows/deploy.yaml # CI/CD workflow for gcx push
├── .gitignore
├── go.mod
├── main.go # Entrypoint — registers all resources
├── internal/
│ └── dashboards/
│ ├── all.go # Registry function returning all manifests
│ └── sample.go # Example dashboard using foundation-sdk builders
└── README.md
Next Steps After Scaffolding
cd my-dashboards && go mod tidy- Configure gcx:
gcx config set stacks.default.grafana.server <URL>,gcx config set stacks.default.grafana.token <TOKEN>, andgcx config set contexts.default.stack default - Edit
internal/dashboards/sample.goor generate new stubs withgcx dev generate - Push to Grafana:
gcx resources push
Common Issues
| Issue | Fix |
|---|---|
go mod tidy fails |
Ensure your Go toolchain meets the version required by the generated go.mod |
| Project name has spaces | Names are auto-kebab-cased; spaces become hyphens |
| Want to add alert rules | Create internal/alerts/ and use gcx dev generate alerts/my-rule.go |
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.
- 14d ago Changed · -3 lines · -39 tokens per session f5864af756a1
- 2mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 975654f10ec6
scaffold-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository grafana/gcx (817 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 519 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
scaffold-project compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scaffold-projectgrafana/gcx | Skill | 817 | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 51 | Claude Code |
| imagegenopenai/codex | Skill | 133k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 113 | Codex |
| playwright-climicrosoft/playwright | Skill | 99k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 19 | Claude Code |
| local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners | Skill | 79k | 4d ago | MIT | A | 200 | Claude Code, Codex |
| systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers | Skill | 313k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
| next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | today | MIT | A | 95 | Claude Code |
| chat-pet-sprite-creationmicrosoft/vscode | Skill | 195k | today | MIT | A | 53 | Claude Code, Codex |