Showboard — Data skill for Claude Code
Your coding agent answers with dashboards, not paragraphs.
How to install Showboard
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open rohanbeingsocial/showboard and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Showboard does
Your coding agent answers with dashboards, not paragraphs. An MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more: charts and tables from read-only SQL on Postgres, SQLite, Excel or CSV, in your browser, your app or a terminal pane. 2.7× cheaper than Claude Code making the charts itself.
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README
Ask in your terminal. Get a dashboard on your screen.
Showboard is an open-source **MCP server** that lets **Claude Code**, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other coding agents answer questions about your **SQL database**, or a folder of **Excel and CSV files**, with charts, tables and headline numbers: in your browser, inside your own app, or beside your terminal.
[](#works-with-your-agent) [](LICENSE) [](#quick-start)
**[Quick start](#quick-start)** · **[How it works](#how-it-works)** · **[Benchmark](#benchmark)** · **[Docs](docs/reference.md)**
2.7× cheaper · 3.5× fewer output tokens · 3.2× faster
Claude Code with Showboard against Claude Code on its own, on the same questions and the same files. See the benchmark
[!NOTE] **Built with AI assistance.** Showboard is developed with help from AI coding agents, mostly Claude Code. A test suite and a [mea
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