- name
- data-dashboard
- description
- Build a dense, data-heavy screen - an analytics console or a trading terminal - with real charts drawn from tokens: candlestick, volume, depth, stacked area, waterfall, scatter, correlation matrix, donut, gauge, sparklines, heatmaps and order books. Use when the request is a dashboard, terminal, monitoring view, data console, or any screen whose job is to show many numbers at once. Covers the layout sequence, the SVG geometry, the accessibility contract per chart type, and the contrast traps that only appear in dark mode.
Skill: Data dashboard
Requirements
This skill needs the full UX/UI Agent Skills kit: the gates, the references and
the design-system library. Install it with npx [email protected] init
or as the Claude Code plugin. npx [email protected] add copies the skill folder and
nothing else. Installed that way, this skill runs in guidance-only mode: no gate
runs, so it gives no verdict.
Step 0: is the kit here? Check once:
ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSINGOnKIT_MISSING, open your reply with: "Guidance-only mode: the UX/UI Agent Skills kit is not installed here, so no gate ran and nothing below is measured." Then work from this file and general practice, under three rules. Do not guess or cite the contents of a kit file you could not open. State no measured number (no contrast ratio, no N/N, no "passes WCAG"): write "not verified" where one would go. End with a lineSkipped (kit not installed):that names every gate script this file tells you to run, then the install command above.
A dashboard is the hardest screen to keep honest: it is dense, it is mostly
non-text, and almost every default makes it worse. This is the recipe that
produced ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../examples/showcase/ and ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../examples/terminal/, both of which pass every
gate in both themes.
1. Decide the brief before drawing anything
Answer these in one line each, or /grill-me them out of the user:
- Who reads this, and what decision do they make from it? A revenue console for an operator and a trading desk for a dealer look nothing alike.
- What is the one number that leads? A dashboard without a lead is a wall.
- What is the update cadence? Hourly figures get a "last run" line. Live figures get a tape and a timestamp per row.
- How dense is honest? A terminal earns 12 panels. A weekly report does not.
2. Layout sequence, not a grid of equal cards
Four equal stat cards is the single loudest tell that nobody designed this. Compose in bands, each a different shape: