DAC
DAC is a Dashboard-as-Code tool for defining, validating, and serving dashboards from YAML and TSX.
Dynamic charts, tabs, loops and conditionals with TSX.
Built-in AI agent via Codex: chat with your dashboard live and get it updated.
Supports all the major databases: Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, and more via Bruin
Built-in semantic layer: define metrics and dimensions once in semantic/ , reference them from any widget. DAC generates the SQL.
It is built for AI agents to build dashboards in a reliable and reviewable way.
TSX YAML export default ( < Dashboard name = "Simple Dashboard" connection = "my_db" > < Row > < Metric name = "Total Revenue" col = { 4 } sql = "SELECT SUM(amount) AS value FROM sales" column = "value" prefix = "$" format = "number" /> </ Row > </ Dashboard > ) name : Sales Overview connection : warehouse rows : - widgets : - name : Revenue type : metric sql : SELECT SUM(amount) AS value FROM sales column : value prefix : " $ " col : 4
Install
Install the latest stable DAC release:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bruin-data/dac/main/install.sh | bash
Install the latest edge build from main :
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bruin-data/dac/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --channel edge
DAC uses your existing Bruin connections and currently shells out to bruin query for query execution. The install script installs the Bruin CLI first when bruin is not already available on your PATH .
Quickstart
Create a new starter project:
dac init my-dashboards cd my-dashboards dac validate --dir . dac serve --dir . --open
The starter includes a SQL-backed YAML dashboard, a semantic YAML dashboard, and a semantic model under semantic/ .
dac init also installs DAC's bundled dashboard authoring skill for Claude and Codex:
ls .claude/skills/create-dashboard/SKILL.md ls .codex/skills/create-dashboard
For existing projects, run dac skills install --dir . .
If you cloned the repository and have dac installed, you can also run one of the bundled example projects:
dac serve --dir examples/basic-yaml
Examples
The repository includes four self-contained example projects under examples/ :
Example What it shows examples/basic-yaml A standard YAML dashboard with filters, SQL queries, and query files. examples/basic-tsx A TSX dashboard that uses load-time queries to generate layout from the database. examples/semantic-yaml A YAML dashboard that reads semantic models from semantic/ and compiles widgets in the backend. examples/semantic-tsx A TSX dashboard using external semantic models and backend semantic query compilation.
Project Layout
. ├── cmd/ CLI entrypoints ├── pkg/ Dashboard loading, semantic engine, server, query backends ├── frontend/ React frontend embedded into the DAC binary ├── docs/ VitePress documentation source ├── examples/ Runnable example projects for YAML, TSX, and semantic dashboards ├── resources/ README and documentation assets └── testdata/ Internal fixtures used by tests
Development
make deps make test make build make dev
The main development commands are defined in the Makefile . Use make targets rather than ad-hoc go build or npm run build commands so frontend embedding and build flags stay consistent.
Telemetry
DAC sends anonymous usage events to help us understand which commands are used and where they fail. Each event includes the command name, run duration, OS/architecture, DAC version, and an anonymous install ID stored at ~/.dac/telemetry.json .
We do not collect:
SQL queries, query results, or row counts
Dashboard or widget contents, names, or file paths
Connection names, hosts, credentials, project IDs, or dataset names
Any environment variables or shell history
To disable telemetry, set either of these environment variables:
export TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 # or the industry-standard: export DO_NOT_TRACK=1
Builds without a telemetry write key (the default for make build ) are silent and send nothing.
Documentation
License