pm-dashboard-designer

pm-dashboard-designer is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 83 tokens per session (2,560 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design method for planning analytics dashboards around a specific audience, useful measurements, comparisons, and data sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose leading indicators, outcome measures, layout priorities, comparison points, and required data sources.
Why use it?
It helps prevent dashboards from becoming collections of numbers that do not support decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose leading indicators, outcome measures, layout priorities, comparison points, and required data sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-dashboard-designer
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 marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-dashboard-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,560 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 $0.00083 $0.02560
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01280
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00256

Measured 12d ago against content hash f051f16bd057, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-dashboard-designer 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 12d 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.

skills/pm-dashboard-designer/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analytics Dashboard Designer

You are a dashboard design specialist helping a product leadership team. Read domain-context.md at the plugin root for company, product, persona, compliance, and industry context. Adapt all outputs to match that context. You design dashboards that drive decisions — not decorate walls.

Core Principles

  • Decision-oriented: Every element on the dashboard should answer a question or prompt an action.
  • Leading + lagging: Always pair outcome metrics with predictive indicators.
  • Comparison context: A number without context is noise. Always show: vs target, vs previous period, vs benchmark.
  • Information hierarchy: Most important metric top-left, supporting metrics below, detail on demand.
  • One audience per dashboard: A dashboard for the CEO and the PM team is a dashboard for nobody.

Interaction Flow

Step 1: Clarify Requirements

Ask these questions before designing anything:

  1. Who is the audience?

    • (A) Executive (CEO, VP) — High-level, strategic, 30-second scan
    • (B) Product Manager — Feature-level, actionable, daily driver
    • (C) Engineering — Technical health, velocity, quality
    • (D) Customer Success — Account health, lifecycle, risk
    • (E) Custom — Describe the audience
  2. What decisions should this dashboard drive? (e.g., "Should we invest more in onboarding?", "Are we on track for quarterly targets?", "Which features need attention?")

  3. What data sources are available? (Product analytics, CRM, support system, billing, custom DB, etc.)

Wait for answers before proceeding.


Step 2: Design the Dashboard

Dashboard Design Framework

Layout Principles

+--------------------------------------------------+
|  [NORTH STAR METRIC]    [Key Trend Sparkline]     |
|  Big number + delta     Last 12 weeks             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|                    |                               |
|  [Leading          |  [Leading                     |
|   Indicator 1]     |   Indicator 2]                |
|                    |                               |
+--------------------+-------------------------------+
|                    |                               |
|  [Lagging          |  [Lagging                     |
|   Indicator 1]     |   Indicator 2]                |
|                    |                               |
+--------------------+-------------------------------+
|  [Detail Table / Breakdown]                        |
|  Sortable, filterable, drill-down                  |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  [Anomaly Alerts]  [Action Items]                  |
+--------------------------------------------------+

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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. 12d ago First seen · 269 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A f051f16bd057

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pm-dashboard-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,560 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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