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title: Documentation
description: Dashies keeps an AI-built HTML dashboard alive - published, refreshing on a schedule, versioned, and shareable by link.
updated: 2026-08-06
---

Dashies is the agentic BI platform for publishing, refreshing, and sharing
AI-built HTML dashboards. Your own AI tool authors the dashboard; Dashies keeps
it running.

## Where to start

**Evaluating.** Read [What Dashies is](/start/what-dashies-is), then
[Is Dashies right for you?](/start/is-dashies-right-for-you), which states the
anti-fit as plainly as the fit.

**Building.** Go straight to the [Quickstart](/start/quickstart). It needs no
warehouse and no paid plan, and it ends at a live URL. Then
[Quickstart: a self-refreshing dashboard](/start/quickstart-refresh) for the real
loop.

**Understanding it.** [Core concepts](/concepts) is the mental model in reading
order. If you read only two pages,
[Datasets and the four modes](/concepts/dataset-modes) and
[Measure correctness](/concepts/measure-correctness) are the two that decide
whether your numbers are right.

**Wiring Dashies into an AI tool.** The
[MCP tool reference](/reference/mcp-tools) is the contract.

## The three steps

1. Install the Dashies plugin, which bundles the authoring skill and the publish
   service.
2. Connect a data warehouse: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift,
   Databricks, SQL Server, or Oracle Database.
3. Ask your AI for a dashboard. It gets published, refreshes itself on a
   schedule, and is shared with a URL.

In Claude Code, step 1 is two commands in your shell:

```bash
claude plugin marketplace add https://dashies.ai/marketplace.json
claude plugin install dashies@dashies --scope user
```

`--scope user` installs Dashies for every project rather than binding it to the
directory you are in, which is the difference between the `dashies` skill
existing in your next repository and not. Run `/reload-plugins` in Claude Code
afterwards, or start a new session.

[Install the connector](/guides/install) has the equivalent for Codex, Cursor,
Claude web and desktop, and any other plugin-capable tool.

:::note{title="Reading these docs with an AI tool"}
Every page here is also published as its markdown source: take any URL on this
site and add `.md`. [llms.txt](https://docs.dashies.ai/llms.txt) is the index of
all of them, and [the changelog](/changelog) is what has changed recently.
:::