dashboard-design

dashboard-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing data dashboards that make important measures easy to understand. It covers chart choices, visual order, key performance indicators, and filters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan dashboard layouts, choose suitable charts, define headline metrics, and design filters for executives, managers, analysts, or operators.
Why use it?
It prevents dashboards from becoming crowded collections of numbers that do not support decisions. It keeps each element tied to a question the viewer needs answered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan dashboard layouts, choose suitable charts, define headline metrics, and design filters for executives, managers, analysts, or operators.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill dashboard-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01493
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00149

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5146f5179b6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d ago.

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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 · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Design

Before you start

Gather the following from the user before designing:

  1. Who is the primary audience? (Executive, manager, analyst, operator — each needs different density and interactivity)
  2. What decisions will this dashboard support? (Not "what data do you want to see" but "what will you do differently based on this data")
  3. What are the 3-5 key questions this dashboard must answer? (Every element must tie back to a question)
  4. What is the data source and refresh cadence? (Real-time stream, hourly batch, daily ETL — this constrains layout)
  5. Where will it be viewed? (Desktop monitor, laptop, TV wall, mobile, embedded in another tool)

If the user says "I want a dashboard with all our metrics," push back: "A dashboard that shows everything answers nothing. Which 3-5 questions should someone be able to answer in under 10 seconds?"

Dashboard design template

1. Define the KPI bar

Place 3-5 headline metrics at the top of the dashboard. Each KPI card must include:

  • Metric name in plain language (not column names like mrr_net_new)
  • Current value with appropriate formatting (currency, percentage, count)
  • Comparison value — period-over-period change or target attainment
  • Trend indicator — directional arrow or sparkline for context

Layout rule: KPIs read left to right in order of importance. The leftmost metric is the one the viewer checks first.

[ Revenue: $1.2M  +12% vs last month ]  [ Active Users: 45.2K  -3% ]  [ NPS: 72  +5pts ]

2. Select chart types by question

Match each question to the right chart type. Use this decision framework:

Question type Chart type Avoid
How has X changed over time? Line chart (continuous) or bar chart (discrete periods) Pie chart
How does X compare across categories? Horizontal bar chart (ranked) 3D charts, radar charts
What is the distribution of X? Histogram or box plot Pie chart with 10+ slices
What is the relationship between X and Y? Scatter plot Dual-axis charts (misleading scales)
What is the composition of X? Stacked bar (few categories) or treemap (many) Pie chart with >5 slices
Where does X happen? Choropleth map or heat map Pin maps with overlapping markers

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 5146f5179b6f

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dashboard-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,493 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 2026-09-03.

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