What do I need to use Dashboard Brief?

The business question this dashboard should answer; Primary audience; Refresh cadence; Data sources available; BI tool being used.

Is Dashboard Brief free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Dashboard Brief

Q: How do I know the Dashboard Brief output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every chart has a stated "key insight to surface" — not just "show the data"; KPI cards are 3–6 (not more); Chart types are justified; Layout follows visual hierarchy (summary → detail).

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-08 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-data

Convert a business question into a complete dashboard specification. Use when asked to design a dashboard, create a dashboard spec or brief, plan a BI report, or define what charts and metrics a dashboard should include. Produces a structured spec with metrics, dimensions, chart types, filters, and layout guidance.

📚 Based on Storytelling with Data — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Design a dashboard to track [business process]”“Give me a spec for a [team] performance dashboard”“What should go on a [topic] dashboard?”“Write a dashboard brief for our [metric] monitoring”

What to give it

▸The business question this dashboard should answer — e.g. "How is our activation funnel performing this week?"

▸Primary audience — exec / product team / operations / customer success / engineering

▸Refresh cadence — real-time / hourly / daily / weekly

▸Data sources available — e.g. Postgres, BigQuery, Mixpanel, Salesforce, Jira

▸BI tool being used — Looker / Metabase / Tableau / Power BI / Grafana / Custom / Unknown

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Every chart has a stated "key insight to surface" — not just "show the data"

✓KPI cards are 3–6 (not more)

✓Chart types are justified

✓Layout follows visual hierarchy (summary → detail)

✓Data requirements section flags any missing fields

✓Filters are practical and don't require IT to configure

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not specify metrics that the available data sources cannot actually support — always validate data availability

Do not include more than 8–10 primary metrics on a single dashboard — more creates noise, not insight

Do not skip the primary business question — a dashboard without a north-star question becomes a vanity metrics display

Do not choose chart types for aesthetic reasons — every chart type must match the data relationship it represents

Do not leave filter configurations vague — specify exact filter values, not just filter categories

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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