A local-first data toolkit for building, tracking, and visualizing data pipelines directly from the command line.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install terminal-dashboard
2. Manual Installation
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~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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Help me install terminal-dashboard using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is Terminal Dashboard?
Terminal Dashboard is a robust Openclaw Skills compatible utility designed for developers and data engineers who need a lightweight, offline-first solution for monitoring data operations. It acts as a centralized data toolkit to ingest, transform, query, and visualize data activities without the overhead of a GUI or external cloud dependencies. By providing a structured way to log Every step of a data pipeline, it ensures full traceability and auditability for local data workflows.
Built with a focus on simplicity and privacy, this skill allows users to maintain a complete history of data transformations and validation results. Whether you are managing complex ETL processes or conducting ad-hoc analysis, Terminal Dashboard provides the necessary infrastructure to journal your operations using standard Unix utilities, making it an essential addition to the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Terminal Dashboard Use Cases
- ETL/ELT Audit Trails: Track every stage of data movement from ingestion to final export for complete compliance.
- Data Quality Monitoring: Record validation results and profiling stats to identify anomalies in local datasets.
- Reproducible Analysis: Journal exploratory queries, filters, and aggregations to ensure findings can be recreated later.
- Pipeline Debugging: Search through historical logs to pinpoint exactly where a transformation or ingestion failed.
- Schema Versioning: Log schema migrations and validation rules to maintain a history of structural changes.
How Terminal Dashboard Works
- Event Capture: The user executes specific commands (like ingest or transform) with input strings to record data events.
- Local Persistence: The skill appends the entry to a command-specific log file in a pipe-delimited format (
timestamp|value). - Unified Logging: Simultaneously, the event is recorded in a global
history.logto provide a chronological view of all activities. - Data Retrieval: Users utilize utility commands like
search,recent, orstatsto query the local log files. - Export & Reporting: Data can be aggregated and exported into JSON, CSV, or plain text formats for external reporting or backups.
Terminal Dashboard Setup
To get started with Terminal Dashboard in your environment, ensure you have Bash 4+ installed. Follow these steps to initialize the Openclaw Skills integration:
# Check the current health and installation status
terminal-dashboard status
# View the built-in help menu for all available pipeline commands
terminal-dashboard help
# Optional: Set a custom data directory
export TERMINAL_DASHBOARD_DIR="/path/to/your/logs"
Terminal Dashboard Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data within ~/.local/share/terminal-dashboard/ using a flat-file taxonomy. This structure is optimized for Openclaw Skills performance and grep-ability:
| File Type | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
*.log |
Individual command logs (e.g., ingest.log, query.log) |
`YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM |
history.log |
Unified activity stream across all operations | `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM |
export.* |
Generated files from the export command | JSON, CSV, or TXT |
stats |
Volatile summary of entry counts and disk usage | Plain Text |
Terminal Dashboard Advanced Features
- Environment Overrides: Use the
TERMINAL_DASHBOARD_DIRvariable to redirect logs to networked drives or version-controlled folders. - Full-Text Search: Built-in keyword search across all data pipeline stages using optimized Unix utilities.
- Health Monitoring: Detailed
statuscommand providing versioning, entry counts, and disk usage telemetry. - Flexible Exporting: Seamlessly transition from local logs to production reports with multi-format export support.
- Zero-Dependency Architecture: Relies exclusively on standard Unix utilities, ensuring high portability across different systems.
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