dashboard-designer

dashboard-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 95 tokens per session (3,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning dashboards that show important measurements, often called KPIs, to a specific audience. It covers what to display, how to arrange it, visual emphasis, and choosing a business-intelligence tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan KPI dashboards, improve existing dashboard layouts, choose between dashboard tools, and structure data for executive reporting.
Why use it?
It helps prevent dashboards from becoming crowded, confusing, or filled with numbers that do not support decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/dashboard-designer
Any agent
npx skills add NickCrew/Claude-Cortex --skill dashboard-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,188 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 5.1 $0.00095 $0.03188
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01594
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00319

Measured 3d ago against content hash dbf2af07bc3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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/dashboard-designer/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Designer

Overview

This skill provides a structured approach to dashboard design—from defining the right KPIs and audience through information architecture, visual hierarchy, color coding, and tool selection. A well-designed dashboard surfaces the right information to the right person at the right time. This skill combines data visualization principles with UX thinking to create dashboards that drive decisions, not just display data.

When to Use

  • You're building a new dashboard and need to decide what to show and how to arrange it
  • An existing dashboard is cluttered, ignored, or confusing to users
  • You need to choose between BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Grafana)
  • You want to design a KPI framework before building the technical implementation
  • You're presenting data to an executive audience and need to structure the narrative

When NOT to Use

  • Writing SQL queries to power the dashboard (use sql-analyst skill)
  • Building chart code in Python/JavaScript (use chart-builder skill)
  • Creating a static report or slide deck (use a presentation skill)
  • Designing the underlying data model or warehouse (use a data engineering skill)

Quick Reference

Design Principle Rule
Visual hierarchy Most important KPI top-left; details bottom-right
White space 15–20% of dashboard area; prevents cognitive overload
Color coding Max 4–5 colors; use red/green for status, grey for context
Chart density Max 6–8 charts per screen; prefer fewer, larger charts
KPI count Executive: 3–5 KPIs. Operational: 8–12. Analyst: unlimited
Text Titles as insights ("Revenue Up 12%"), not labels ("Revenue")
Refresh rate Real-time for ops, daily for management, weekly/monthly for strategy
Interactivity Filters at top; drill-down by click; default to most common view
Mobile Stack charts vertically for mobile; limit to top 3 KPIs
Accessibility Colorblind-safe palette; min contrast ratio 4.5:1

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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. 3d ago First seen · 250 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A dbf2af07bc3e

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dashboard-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,188 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.