kx-dropdown

kx-dropdown is a skill for Claude Code from KxSystems/kx-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for adding a KX Dashboards dropdown or multi-select control, where users choose one or more items from a list. The choices can be fixed, loaded from data, or depend on another selection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for symbol, instrument, category, or filter selectors, including dependent dropdowns, grouped choices, and lists that publish selections to dashboard ViewStates.
Why use it?
It removes the need to work out the widget structure, data connection, and selected-value handling separately for each selector.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kx-dashboards-knowledge plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for symbol, instrument, category, or filter selectors, including dependent dropdowns, grouped choices, and lists that publish selections to dashboard ViewStates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kxsystems/kx-skills/kx-dropdown
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.

Any agent
npx skills add KxSystems/kx-skills --skill kx-dropdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KxSystems/kx-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kx-dashboards-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,521 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 $0.00068 $0.01521
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00152

Measured 10d ago against content hash d6abb80b277d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kx-dropdown 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 10d 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/kx-dashboards-knowledge/skills/kx-dropdown/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KX Dropdown Component

Also read kx-dashboard-core for: envelope, screen/widget wrapper, data sources, ViewState, binding patterns, actions, notifications, and the pre-flight checklist.

This skill uses progressive disclosure: the workflow, hazards, and output rules are here; the bulky JSON schema, field tables, data-source shapes, and examples live in reference/. Read only the reference file relevant to your current step.

Reference Files

File Read it when you need…
reference/component-schema.md The raw component JSON — full options schema, the Basics field reference table, and the single/multi/list ViewState patterns.
reference/data-source-patterns.md Wiring the list data source — static distinct query, multi-column, ViewState-parameterised cascade — plus the Actions pattern for publishing extra columns.
reference/examples.md Eight worked NLQ → JSON examples for every dropdown shape.

When to Use This Skill

  • User asks for a dropdown, combobox, or selector widget
  • User wants a symbol / instrument / category filter that publishes a selected value to a ViewState
  • User wants multiple selections (multi-select)
  • User wants to populate a dropdown from a kdb+ table or query
  • User wants to publish multiple column values on selection (e.g. sym AND exchange simultaneously)
  • User wants grouped list items (e.g. symbols grouped by exchange)
  • User wants a static option list (e.g. Dark / Light theme picker)
  • User wants a cascading / dependent dropdown filtered by another selection

When NOT to Use This Skill

Do not use Dropdown to display a computed query result. Dropdown is an input control for user selection — it is not a display widget.

Scenario Correct component
Query returns a single scalar (total count, last price, sum, avg) Text — bind via Data + Template
Query returns a summary row with multiple metrics Text — multi-column Handlebars template
Showing a live-updating KPI / stat tile Text — with polling data source
Showing the current value of a ViewState Text — via ViewState template interpolation

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 88 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A d6abb80b277d

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kx-dropdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository KxSystems/kx-skills (16 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,521 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 2026-08-30.

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