Dashboard

What This Skill Does

The Dashboard skill empowers users to build and maintain custom, local-first data visualizations using OpenClaw. It operates on a clean, developer-centric architecture that prioritizes privacy and security by design. Rather than relying on cloud-hosted SaaS tools, this skill generates static HTML dashboards directly on your machine. The workflow is split between a local registry for dashboard management and a user-controlled execution model for data fetching.

At its core, the skill creates a structured directory at ~/dashboard/. It generates custom fetch scripts (usually shell scripts utilizing curl and jq) that pull data from your desired APIs. Because these scripts rely on environment variables for authentication, your API credentials never touch your dashboard files, keeping your secrets safe from accidental exposure. You remain in full control of the update frequency via local cron jobs.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, use the following command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/dashboard

Ensure that you have jq installed on your system, as it is the primary tool used for parsing JSON API responses into the data.json files that power your dashboard widgets.

Use Cases

• Monitoring financial KPIs like Stripe revenue or crypto wallet balances.
• Tracking infrastructure health and server metrics from cloud providers.
• Visualizing personal habit data or project management task completion stats.
• Creating real-time sentiment analysis dashboards from news or social APIs.

Example Prompts

1. "Create a new dashboard for my monthly Stripe revenue. I'll provide the STRIPE_API_KEY."
2. "Update my project dashboard to include a new widget tracking Jira tickets assigned to me."
3. "Help me visualize the JSON response from this weather API into a clean dashboard layout in my ~/dashboard folder."

Tips & Limitations

• Visual QA: Always open the generated index.html in your browser before finalizing. Use the provided design defaults (16px spacing, dark-mode colors) for consistency.
• Security: Never hardcode API keys. Use export STRIPE_API_KEY=your_key in your .bashrc or .zshrc.
• Limitations: This skill does not scrape protected or non-API-accessible sites. It is intended for structured data sources. It also does not manage network-wide access; if you want to view these dashboards from other devices, you must configure your own local server (e.g., Nginx or Apache) and add authentication.