rill-explore

Instructions for building an Explore dashboard in Rill, a tool for interactive data dashboards. Explore dashboards let users filter, break down, and investigate one set of metrics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to connect a dashboard to a metrics view, choose the dimensions and measures users can inspect, and set optional defaults or time ranges.
Why use it?
They explain the basic configuration and help distinguish an exploratory dashboard from a fixed report or an executive summary.

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/rilldata/agent-skills/rill-explore
Any agent
npx skills add rilldata/agent-skills --skill rill-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rilldata/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,101 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 $0.00017 $0.02101
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01051
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00210

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2826fc3f6d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rill-explore 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.

skills/rill-explore/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions for developing an explore dashboard in Rill

Introduction

Explore dashboards are resources that configure an interactive, drill-down dashboard for a metrics view. They are Rill's default dashboard type, designed for explorative slice-and-dice analysis of a single metrics view.

Explore dashboards are lightweight resources that sit downstream of a metrics view in the project DAG. Their reconcile logic is fast (validation only), so they can be created and modified freely without performance concerns.

When to use explores vs canvases

  • Explore dashboards: Best for explorative analysis, drill-down investigations, and letting users freely slice data by any dimension.
  • Canvas dashboards: Best for fixed reports, executive summaries, or combining multiple metrics views into a single view.

Development approach

Explore dashboards require minimal configuration. In most cases, you only need to:

  1. Reference the metrics view
  2. Select which dimensions and measures to expose (usually all, indicated by '*')
  3. Optionally configure defaults and time ranges

Best practice: Keep explore configurations simple. Only add advanced features (security policies, custom themes, restricted dimensions) when there is a clear requirement. The metrics view already defines the business logic; the explore just controls presentation and access.

Inline explores in metrics views

The preferred way to create an explore is inline in the metrics view file: set version: 1 and add an explore: block, which emits an explore resource with the same name as the metrics view (or name: if set):

# metrics/sales.yaml
version: 1
type: metrics_view
display_name: Sales Analytics

model: sales_model
timeseries: order_date

dimensions:
  - column: region
  - column: product_category

measures:
  - name: total_revenue
    expression: SUM(revenue)

# Inline explore configuration
explore:
  display_name: Sales Dashboard
  dimensions: '*'  # Optional: dimensions to expose ('*', a list, or {exclude: [...]}); defaults to all
  measures: '*'    # Optional: measures to expose ('*', a list, or {exclude: [...]}); defaults to all
  time_ranges:
    - P7D
    - P30D
    - P90D
  defaults:
    time_range: P30D

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 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 · 270 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 2826fc3f6d36

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rill-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository rilldata/agent-skills (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,101 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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