A guide for creating KX Dashboards gauge and bullet-style KPI visuals. KX Dashboards are business dashboards, and a KPI is a key measure such as progress toward a target.

Building gauge or bullet widgets, connecting them to data, configuring their display, and checking the resulting dashboard JSON.

It helps select the correct widget and avoid modeling a bullet display with the wrong chart type.

kx-gauge — Skill for Claude Code by KxSystems/kx-skills

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-gauge

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.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,220 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00058	$0.01220
Opus 5.5	$0.00023	$0.00488
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00244
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00122

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 11fbf8a96d54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kx-gauge 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 2mo 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-gauge/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

key: "Gauge" · definitionId: "11178"

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 hazards, workflow, sub-type table, and output rules are here; the bulky JSON schemas, ChartType/Format field tables, tooltip template, migration history, 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 Gauge and Bullet options schemas, the ChartType property tables, highlight rules, the Format table, the Tooltip section/template, and the schema upgrade history.
reference/examples.md	The two `generate.js` config examples (Gauge + Bullet) for the shared generator, plus typical kdb+ query patterns.

⚠️ Gauge Hazards

Bullet chart = key: "Gauge" with _Type: "Bullet" — NEVER ChartGL. Do not simulate a bullet chart using ChartGL Bar + Bubble layers. The only correct widget for a bullet chart is the Gauge widget (definitionId: "11178") with Basics.ChartType._Type: "Bullet".
Basics.ChartType._Type controls the sub-type ("Gauge" or "Bullet"). Omitting it leaves the widget in an undefined state.
Highlight rule values are absolute numbers, not percentages. They are converted internally to 0–1 fractions of [Min, Max] for eCharts color stops.
RuleOperation only supports "<" and "<=" — no other operators.
Bullet highlight rules require Max to be set — setHighlightRules guards on if (min || max). Without Max, highlight rules are silently skipped even if HighlightRules is non-empty. Set Min: 0 and Max to the largest rule value (e.g. 300 if your top rule is <= 300). This does not affect Bullet axis scaling — scale remains data-driven.
ShowTitle must be undefined (not false) for Bullet — the widget explicitly removes it when switching to Bullet type.
Tooltip uses a Handlebars template stored in Tooltip.CustomTooltip. The default template is in reference/component-schema.md → Tooltip.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

2mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 11fbf8a96d54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kx-gauge is a skill published in the GitHub repository KxSystems/kx-skills (22 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,220 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.

Analytics and metrics

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