# Dashboarding (agent skill)

> Dashboarding is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from grafana/skills. Build, modify, and ship Grafana dashboards as JSON via the HTTP API — panel types (timeseries / stat / gauge / table / heatmap / logs / traces / node-graph), gridPos 24-column layout, units. It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor and has 290 GitHub stars.

Build, modify, and ship Grafana dashboards as JSON via the HTTP API — panel types (timeseries / stat / gauge / table / heatmap / logs / traces / node-graph), gridPos 24-column layout, units, thresholds, template + datasource + chained variables, transformations (organize / calculateField / filterByValue), panel + dashboard links with ${field.labels.x} / ${from}, and Loki/Prometheus annotations.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/grafana/skills |
| Skill path | skills/grafana-core/dashboarding/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | dashboarding |
| GitHub stars | 290 |
| Installs on skills.sh | 3 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Skills in repo | 1 |
| Plugin marketplace | grafana-skills |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor |
| Category | Data & analysis |
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |

## When it triggers

- Use when scripting dashboard creation, writing the dashboard JSON for a new service, adding a $job dropdown variable, computing an "Error %" column with a transformation, overlaying deploys as annotations, or pushing a dashboard via POST /a
- "Error %"
- "create a dashboard for this metric"
- "add a service dropdown"
- "show errors as percentage"
- "overlay our deploys"
- "export the dashboard JSON"

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
/plugin marketplace add grafana/skills
/plugin   # browse grafana-skills and install the plugin that contains dashboarding
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/skills.git
cp -r skills/skills/grafana-core/dashboarding .agents/skills/dashboarding   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/skills.git
cp -r skills/skills/grafana-core/dashboarding .cursor/skills/dashboarding   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

skills.sh listing: https://www.skills.sh/grafana/skills/dashboarding

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