# build-dashboard

A Claude and Claude skill that builds a dashboard from your data sources: metrics, filters, source checks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · 8 installs · ★ 7604
- Author: Data Analytics Maintainers · official OpenAI repository
- License: LicenseRef-Proprietary · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/data-analytics/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-dashboard

## What it does

The skill kicks in when you need a dashboard, not a report or a one-off chat analysis. It starts with the brief: who reads it, what gets measured, where it should live. Then it picks a delivery surface — a connected BI tool, `sites-app`, or portable HTML. Streamlit only if you ask for it.

Before rendering, it hunts for sources: it walks connected databases, pulls fresh catalog and metadata, and compares overlapping tables by freshness, grain and definition. If a required source of truth is missing, that path stops — the skill tells you what it needs and won't swap in a weaker substitute. Worth knowing before you start: no data access, no dashboard.

Specifications for each surface ship inside: BI platform, MCP artifact, HTML, Streamlit. The skill also owns QA and handoff. Two neighbours help out — `$create-data-context` for the semantic layer, `$analyze-data-quality` when metrics disagree.

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill build-dashboard -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill build-dashboard -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/build-dashboard/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins build-dashboard
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/data-analytics/skills/build-dashboard
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/data-analytics/skills/build-dashboard/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a dashboard for monitoring product metrics
- pick the right source when two catalogs disagree
- check table freshness and grain before publishing numbers
- ship a portable HTML dashboard without a BI platform
- trace why report metrics don't add up

## Example prompts
- Build a dashboard for revenue and active users from our Postgres tables
- I need a weekly review dashboard: metrics, region filters, data quality checks
- Make a portable HTML dashboard for orders, we don't have BI

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