Flint Dashboard Boards
Builds and validates one board of linked Flint charts for a dashboard or comparison.
Install
npx skills add microsoft/flint-chart --skill flint-board-author -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- microsoft/flint-chart4.5k
- Category
- Data and ML
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use when: several Flint charts should be read together in one view: a dashboard, KPI tiles over a trend, a side-by-side comparison, an overview with its detail; or a board on screen should change (add, retitle, resize, reconnect a chart). Produce one board spec whose headline, chart choice, layout and connected fields are decided, check and refine it with validate_board, then put it on screen once with show.
flint-board: several charts, one view
A board holds several Flint charts under one headline. The agent writes it as
one board spec, checks it with validate_board, which draws nothing, and puts
it on screen with show({ "board": … }), which opens a new card below the
conversation's latest message. The server keeps nothing between calls: the spec
in the conversation is the board. So call show once a turn, after the board
is right; to change it later, change the spec and call show again.
Each chart on a board is a full chart spec (flint-chart-author), plus an
id and a layout. This skill covers what a board adds: the headline, which
charts, where they sit, how they connect, and how they look as one piece.
Work through the steps in order. A board is ready to show when its latest
report shows no ✗ and its Review: section is empty or says only that a
colour field is shared.
Step 1, write the headline
The board's title is what the reader takes away, or what the board is for,
in one line. Its subtitle is the deck: the data, its scope, period and
units. source is the footer: where the data comes from and when.
title: "Europe carried the third-quarter recovery"
subtitle: "Monthly revenue by region and product line, Jan, Sep 2025, $m"
source: "Source: finance ledger, closed books to 30 Sep 2025"
A monitoring board with no single finding names its purpose instead:
"Operations at a glance". The card draws the title largest, so it is the
first thing read; every board gets one.
Step 2, choose the charts
Start from the questions the reader brings, one chart per question, and keep the board to the charts that answer them: three to five KPI tiles and up to six charts. More than that is two boards.
