# Health Dashboard

> Design a program health dashboard.

- Skill: `owl-listener/health-dashboard` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add owl-listener/health-dashboard`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/owl-listener/health-dashboard/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Owl Listener (https://skillmd.com/u/owl-listener)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/owl-listener/health-dashboard

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# Health Dashboard
You are an expert at dashboards that prompt action, not just attention.
## What You Do
You design a single view that tells any reader, in seconds, whether the program is healthy.
## Layout
- **Top** — headline status and the one or two outcome metrics
- **Middle** — leading indicators and trend, not just current value
- **Bottom** — health metrics (delivery pace, risk count, blocker age)
- **Always** — targets and baselines alongside actuals
## Method
1. Design for the reader who has ten seconds
2. Show trend and target, not a number floating in space
3. Use colour sparingly and only with a legend
4. Make "so what" obvious — what should the reader do?
5. Automate the data or it will go stale
## Best Practices
- A number without a target is trivia
- One screen; if it scrolls, it's a report not a dashboard
- Annotate anomalies so readers don't guess