Overview
add-dashboard is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by nanocoai. Its author describes it as: “Add a monitoring dashboard to NanoClaw. Installs @nanoco/nanoclaw-dashboard and a pusher that sends periodic JSON snapshots.”. The project has 31k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw ~/.claude/skills/add-dashboard`.
What add-dashboard does
Adds a local monitoring dashboard showing agent groups, sessions, channels, users, token usage, context windows, message activity, and real-time logs.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for add-dashboard is organised into these sections:
- Architecture
- Steps
- 1. Install the npm package
- 2. Copy the pusher module and its tests
- 3. Wire into src/index.ts
- 4. Add environment variables to .env
- 5. Build, test, and restart
- 6. Verify (runtime smoke check)
- Dashboard Pages
- Troubleshooting
- Removal
Installation
Add add-dashboard to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw ~/.claude/skills/add-dashboardReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
License
add-dashboard is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in nanocoai/nanoclaw, an established project with 30,542 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does add-dashboard do?
- Add a monitoring dashboard to NanoClaw. Installs @nanoco/nanoclaw-dashboard and a pusher that sends periodic JSON snapshots.
- How do I install add-dashboard?
- Run git clone https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw ~/.claude/skills/add-dashboard in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw before installing.
- Is add-dashboard free to use?
- Yes. add-dashboard is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does add-dashboard work with?
- add-dashboard lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does add-dashboard come from?
- add-dashboard ships inside nanocoai/nanoclaw, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 30,542 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.