Grafana Oss

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Building dashboards
• Configuring data sources
• Setting up provisioning YAML
• Picking a panel type

Example prompts

• “set up a Prometheus data source”
• “provision dashboards from git”
• “make a service account”
• “/grafana-oss”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Drop dashboard JSON file(s) under /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/
2. 2Add a provider in provisioning/dashboards/default.yaml (see § Dashboard provisioning below)
3. 3Restart Grafana so the provider config is loaded
4. 4Verify the dashboard landed

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1ccacf2. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl
  • jq

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • grafana.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Grafana Oss loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 233 tokens; SKILL.md has 295 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~233

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~13k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from grafana/skills at commit 1ccacf2, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© grafana). 295 words, ~1,537 tokens.

name

grafana-oss

description

Configure Grafana OSS — provisions dashboards from YAML, sets up data sources (Prometheus / Loki / Tempo / Pyroscope), writes dashboard JSON with template variables, builds panel queries, assigns built-in roles (Viewer / Editor / Admin / GrafanaAdmin), mints service-account tokens, edits grafana.ini server config, creates annotations, installs plugins via provisioning, and validates each step with a health-check curl. Use when building dashboards, configuring data sources, setting up provisioning YAML, picking a panel type, writing template variables, managing users and roles, configuring SMTP/OAuth in grafana.ini, creating annotations via API, troubleshooting why a provisioned dashboard isn't showing up, or running Grafana OSS locally — even when the user says "set up a Prometheus data source", "provision dashboards from git", "make a service account", or "configure SSO in OSS" without saying "Grafana OSS".

license

Apache-2.0

# provisioning/dashboards/default.yaml
apiVersion: 1
providers:
  - name: default
    folder: MyFolder
    type: file
    disableDeletion: false
    updateIntervalSeconds: 30
    options:
      path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards
      foldersFromFilesStructure: true

# provisioning/datasources/datasources.yaml
apiVersion: 1
datasources:
  - name: Prometheus
    type: prometheus
    access: proxy
    url: http://prometheus:9090
    isDefault: true
    jsonData:
      timeInterval: 15s
      httpMethod: POST

  - name: Loki
    type: loki
    access: proxy
    url: http://loki:3100

  - name: Tempo
    type: tempo
    access: proxy
    url: http://tempo:3200
    jsonData:
      tracesToLogsV2:
        datasourceUid: loki_uid
        tags: [{ key: "service.name", value: "app" }]
      serviceMap:
        datasourceUid: prometheus_uid
      nodeGraph:
        enabled: true

  - name: Pyroscope
    type: grafana-pyroscope-datasource
    url: http://pyroscope:4040

# provisioning/access-control/service_accounts.yaml
apiVersion: 1
serviceAccounts:
  - name: ci-reader
    orgId: 1
    role: Viewer
    tokens:
      - name: ci-token
        # expires: optional ISO 8601 timestamp; omit for no-expiry tokens

# provisioning/plugins/plugins.yaml
apiVersion: 1
apps:
  - type: grafana-pyroscope-app
    disabled: false
    jsonData:
      backendUrl: http://pyroscope:4040

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Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references) in skills/grafana-core/grafana-oss of grafana/skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/alerting.md
• references/api.md
• references/config.md
• references/dashboard-json.md
• references/dashboards.md
• references/datasources.md
• references/panel-types.md
• references/panels.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1ccacf2