dashboard-design

A guide for designing and reviewing dashboards used for areas such as sales, operations, finance, logistics, or analytics. It covers metrics, filters, charts, tables, responsive layouts, and loading or error states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review KPI screens, marketplace and back-office dashboards, analytics views, filters, charts, tables, and responsive behaviour.
Why use it?
It helps turn dashboard data into clear decisions instead of a collection of decorative cards or misleading charts.

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/oleg494/coding-kit/dashboard-design
Any agent
npx skills add oleg494/coding-kit --skill dashboard-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oleg494/coding-kit

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When invoked 1,441 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00074 $0.01441
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00144

Measured yesterday against content hash ea979c4571c1, 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 yesterday.

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-design/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Design

Design dashboards as decision tools, not collections of cards. Make data easier to decide from, not merely decorative. A dashboard is not ready until its important states and interaction paths are verified in the browser, not only in source.

Use when

  • Redesigning a marketplace or back-office dashboard
  • Reworking KPI cards, charts, filters, tables, navigation, or detail panels
  • Choosing chart/table forms for KPIs, trends, rankings, funnels
  • Verifying a changed dashboard UI in the running app before calling it done
  • Improving visual hierarchy, density, responsive behavior, or empty states

Do not use when

  • The task is only backend, data modeling, or query optimization
  • The user asks for a poster, presentation, logo, or static illustration

Workflow

  1. Inspect before proposing. Read the existing routes, components, tokens, data shape, and current UI. For every metric find the source definition, unit, aggregation, scope, time zone, freshness, and comparison period — never infer business meaning from a label or fabricate sample values.
  2. Name the primary decision. State who uses the dashboard, what they need to decide, and the three to five questions the screen must answer. If a visual supports no decision or comparison, prefer a clear value, status, or table over a chart. Remove elements that do not support those questions.
  3. Set information hierarchy. Put the primary status and action first, then KPI context, trend or comparison, details, and secondary actions. Keep filters and the active period visible. Use a table when exact values or row-level actions matter.
  4. Choose the least complex visual form. KPI for a current value, delta for comparison, line for time series, bars for category comparison/ranking, table for exact values or row actions, funnel only when stages and denominators are defined. Maps, pies, gauges, and dual axes only when the data genuinely requires them. Keep title, units, time range, scope, comparison basis, and freshness attached — no hover-only essential values.
  5. Use honest scales and accessible encoding. Zero baseline for bars unless a documented exception is clearer; no distorted axes, unexplained smoothing, false precision, or truncated labels. Never communicate important differences through color alone — add labels, patterns, or direct annotations; provide a text/table alternative for meaningful charts.
  6. Define a compact visual system. Prefer the existing design tokens. If none exist, define semantic tokens for surface, text, muted text, border, success, warning, danger, accent, spacing, type scale, radius, and elevation. Components must consume tokens instead of scattered raw colors. Keep color meaning stable across the product.
  7. Design every meaningful state. Cover loading, no data, insufficient data, error, stale/partial data, disabled/permission-limited actions, long labels or numbers, and values outside the expected range. Explain the next useful action and keep the layout stable.
  8. Handle responsive behavior intentionally. Check desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts. Stack or reprioritize content before shrinking it; recheck long category names and large numbers. Allow horizontal scrolling only for genuinely wide data tables; never let the whole page overflow. Keep keyboard focus visible and respect reduced-motion preferences.
  9. Critique before implementation. Remove one decorative element, one redundant label, and any card, chart, or animation that does not improve comprehension or actionability.
  10. Verify in the running app. A rendered check is part of the work, not optional follow-up: launch the real app (project run instructions, browser/DevTools or Playwright — never a source-only inspection), inspect representative viewports (1440/1024/768/375px or closest supported), exercise navigation, period controls, filters, tabs, sorting, pagination, row actions, and dialogs, and check the state matrix from step 7 plus the browser console for errors. Fix confirmed issues and rerun the affected check; claim completion only after the rerun is clean. Record evidence: surface, viewport, path/state, observed result, pass|defect, location.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. yesterday First seen · 76 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A ea979c4571c1

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dashboard-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,441 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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