Creates a dashboard specification with KPI definitions, chart choices, filters, layout, and data requirements.
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name: dashboard-brief
description: "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."
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# Dashboard Brief Skill
This skill converts a business question or monitoring need into a complete, implementation-ready dashboard specification. The output gives a data engineer or BI developer everything they need to build without a follow-up meeting.
## Required Inputs
Ask the user for these if not provided:
- **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)
## Output Structure
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# Dashboard Brief: [Dashboard Name]
**Business Question:** [The question this dashboard answers — verbatim from inputs or refined]… load the full skill through Skill Me