building-dashboards

Designs and builds Axiom dashboards via API. Covers chart types, APL and metrics/MPL query patterns, SmartFilters, layout, and configuration options. Use when creating dashboards, migrating from Splunk, or configuring chart options.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable with concrete commands, a validated deployment workflow, and tight domain-specific guidance. Its main weakness is progressive disclosure: many prominently referenced reference files and README.md are missing from the bundle, undermining navigation.

Suggestions

Ship the missing `reference/` files (chart-config.md, chart-cookbook.md, layout-recipes.md, design-playbook.md, smartfilter.md, splunk-migration.md, grafana-migration.md, promql-to-mpl.md, metrics-mpl.md, templates/) and `README.md` that the body links to, so navigation actually resolves.

Tighten repetition: the chart-config and Common Pitfalls guidance restates points already made in Chart Unit Configuration and APL Patterns; consolidate to reduce length.

Consider inlining the few highest-traffic reference snippets (e.g. the SmartFilter `declare query_parameters` recipe) since SmartFilter is referenced across multiple sections but its detail lives only in a currently-absent file.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense and almost entirely domain-specific operational knowledge (exact script flags, APL/MPL gotchas) rather than concepts Claude already knows, but at ~350 lines with some repetition (chart-config referenced repeatedly, Common Pitfalls restating earlier guidance) it is not maximally lean, sitting between anchors 4 and 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready guidance: full script signatures with flags in the deployment table, concrete APL snippets, exact mpl-validate-chart/chart-add invocations, and a JSON patch-file example, covering the common cases as in anchor 5.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The Deployment > Workflow gives a clear 7-step sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (validate APL via axiom-sre / MPL via mpl-validate-chart at step 2; dashboard-validate before create at step 6) plus a Common Pitfalls error-recovery table and a Compute-or-Defer feedback loop, matching anchor 5.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The SKILL.md is well-structured with clearly signaled one-level-deep references, but the referenced bundle paths largely do not exist: the entire `reference/` directory (chart-config.md, chart-cookbook.md, grafana-migration.md, etc.) and `README.md` are absent from the bundle, so navigation is broken for the majority of references; only `scripts/` resolves.	3 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: third-person voice, concrete domain coverage, and an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause covering multiple scenarios. It distinguishes itself well via the Axiom-specific niche and Splunk-migration trigger.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ('Axiom dashboards via API') and enumerates several concrete facets ('chart types, APL and metrics/MPL query patterns, SmartFilters, layout, and configuration options'), but the verbs are 'Designs and builds' plus a 'Covers' list rather than many discrete actions, leaving minor gaps relative to the comprehensive anchor 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Designs and builds Axiom dashboards via API. Covers chart types, APL and metrics/MPL query patterns, SmartFilters, layout, and configuration options') and when ('Use when creating dashboards, migrating from Splunk, or configuring chart options') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor 5 example.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural trigger phrases users would say ('creating dashboards, migrating from Splunk, or configuring chart options') with good coverage, but misses common synonyms like 'Axiom dashboard', 'Grafana', 'charts', or file extensions that would push it to anchor 5.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	'Axiom dashboards via API' is a clear niche with distinct, specific triggers (Axiom, Splunk migration, chart options) and minimal overlap risk with other skills, matching the anchor 5 'clear niche with distinct triggers'.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 7 missing	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 16 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: openclaw/clawhub
Path: .agents/skills/building-dashboards/SKILL.md
Commit: 694ff71

Reviewed: 1 day ago

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