create-dashboard

A guide for creating a Mixpanel dashboard, a collection of reports that explains product usage or another analysis topic. It covers choosing the project, finding available events and properties, testing queries, and arranging the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or design a live Mixpanel dashboard, validate its data before building reports, and present investigation findings in a structured layout.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of building dashboards from incorrect event names or empty reports and keeps the dashboard organised around a clear analytical story.

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/mixpanel/ai-plugins/create-dashboard
Any agent
npx skills add mixpanel/ai-plugins --skill create-dashboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mixpanel/ai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,032 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 $0.00055 $0.01032
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00516
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash b26de352b1d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-dashboard 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.

plugins/mixpanel/skills/create-dashboard/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Creation

Engine required — resolve an engine per ENGINE.md: one named in the conversation or loaded instructions is mandatory (not set up → offer /mixpanel:install for it); otherwise use the Mixpanel MCP server, or offer /mixpanel:install if it's unavailable.

Your job is to design a coherent analytical narrative, not just drop reports into rows.

Requirements

  • Access to Mixpanel (query schemas, run queries, manage dashboards).

Workflow

Phase 1 — Scope

Infer the theme from the user's request and surrounding context. Pick a sensible structure yourself. Ask clarifying questions if the request is fundamentally ambiguous (e.g. no project context at all).

  1. Project. Which Mixpanel project? If ambiguous, ask.
  2. Theme. What is the dashboard about? Derive scope from the request.

Phase 2 — Discover and validate

This is the most important phase. Empty or failing reports are the #1 complaint.

  1. Resolve event and property names by querying the project schema (always discover available events and properties before building queries).
  2. Run small probe queries to confirm the data exists and returns meaningful results.
  3. A query that runs successfully but returns zero rows is still not useful — treat it like a missing event.

Phase 3 — Plan layout

Before building, decide:

  • Be space-efficient. Fewer rows with more reports each makes the dashboard faster to scan. Don't spread metrics across many rows when they fit naturally together.
  • Row hierarchy. Headline metrics on top, supporting breakdowns below. The dashboard reads top-to-bottom like a narrative.
  • Row count. Aim for 4-8 rows. Don't add every available breakdown, be smart.
  • Items per row. Use 2–4 reports per row. A single report alone in a row wastes space — pair it with related metrics or a text card. 4 cards per row (text + reports combined) is the practical maximum.
  • One conceptual focus per row. Group related reports together; never mix unrelated metrics in the same row just to fill space.
  • Time filter. Decide intentionally: Dashboard global time filter overrides all the reports. Don't use it when you want each report to have its own default range.
  • Text cards. Identify where they add real value (see rules below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A b26de352b1d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-dashboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository mixpanel/ai-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,032 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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