dashboard-design

A set of layout rules for dark, information-heavy dashboards with tables, charts, and status panels.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides table sizing, numeric formatting, alignment, sticky columns, row styling, and other dashboard display decisions.
Why use it?
It makes dense data easier to scan by keeping numbers aligned, columns stable, and visual differences between rows restrained.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markerikson/opencode-config-example/dashboard-design
Any agent
npx skills add markerikson/opencode-config-example --skill dashboard-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markerikson/opencode-config-example

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,151 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00044 $0.03151
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01576
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00315

Measured 2d ago against content hash acdf3b14778a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dashboard-design 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 2d 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.

config/skill/dashboard-design/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Design Patterns

Focused design guidance for data-dense dashboard UIs — trading dashboards, analytics panels, code review tools, monitoring interfaces. Complements general frontend design skills with patterns specific to tabular data, charts, status indicators, and dark-theme-first development.


Data Tables

Numeric Formatting

  • Use font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums on ALL number columns — prices, quantities, percentages, scores. Without this, columns jitter as values change.
  • Right-align numeric columns, left-align text columns. This is not optional — it's how humans scan numbers.
  • Format consistently: if one price shows $1,234.56, all prices show two decimal places. Don't mix $5 and $5.00.

Column Layout

  • Use table-layout: fixed with <colgroup> for consistent column widths. Auto-layout causes content-dependent jitter.
  • Define minimum column widths so narrow data doesn't collapse columns to unreadable sizes.
  • Consider sticky first column (symbol/name) on horizontally scrollable tables.

Row Differentiation

  • Use ONE technique: subtle alternating backgrounds OR increased row spacing — not both. Both together creates visual noise.
  • Alternating backgrounds: keep contrast extremely subtle (2-3% lightness difference). The goal is a guide rail for the eye, not a zebra.
  • Add a hover highlight row to help track across wide tables.
  • Every row looking identical is a hierarchy problem — use font-weight on the primary column (bold for Symbol, normal for secondary data).

Sortable Columns

  • Active sort column needs a clear indicator (arrow icon + subtle column highlight).
  • Inactive sortable columns: show a muted indicator on hover only.
  • Multi-sort: show sort priority numbers if supported.

Empty & Missing Data

  • Empty cells: use em-dash (—) styled muted (color: var(--color-text-tertiary)) — never leave cells blank (blank looks like a rendering bug).
  • When MOST cells in a column are empty, that's a data/design problem: consider hiding the column, showing a summary row, or collapsing to a denser layout.
  • Distinguish between "no value" (—), "zero" (0), and "not applicable" (n/a).

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 2d ago First seen · 307 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A acdf3b14778a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dashboard-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository markerikson/opencode-config-example (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,151 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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