Build a live MotherDuck dashboard as a Dive.
Build a live MotherDuck dashboard as a Dive. Use when composing one shareable KPI, trend, and breakdown story over existing MotherDuck data.This is the skill's description: the text your AI reads to decide when the skill applies.
motherduck-motherduck-build-dashboard/SKILL.md
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name: motherduck-build-dashboard
description: Build a live MotherDuck dashboard as a Dive. Use when composing one shareable KPI, trend, and breakdown story over existing MotherDuck data, especially when the result should stay a saved workspace artifact rather than a full application.
license: MIT
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# Build an Analytics Dashboard
Use this skill when the user wants a multi-section Dive-backed dashboard with a clear analytical story, not just a single chart.
This is a use-case skill. It orchestrates `motherduck-explore`, `motherduck-query`, and `motherduck-create-dive`; use `motherduck-duckdb-sql` as supporting reference when exact syntax matters.
## Start Here: Is a MotherDuck Server Active?
Always determine this before designing the dashboard.
- If a **remote MotherDuck MCP server** or **local MotherDuck server** is active, use it.
- If the target database is unclear, ask which database or workspace the dashboard should run against.
- Explore the live data model before choosing the dashboard structure:
- available tables and views
- business grain
- key metrics
- key dimensions
- date columns
- likely joins