TableauOps · Free skill

The skill that fixes extension errors before you hit them.

A coding agent writes a Tableau extension fast, then loses twenty minutes to the same handful of errors: a manifest that will not load, an iframe Tableau sandboxes into silence, an API call that needed a permission nobody declared. This SKILL.md bakes the fixes in, so the errors never happen.

The .trex manifest rules, for both kinds of extension: dashboard and viz, with separate dev and prod manifests done right from the start.
The Extensions API patterns that work: reading worksheet data, settings, configure dialogs, encodings.
The common build errors, each with its fix, in the agent's head before the first line of code.
Local dev and hosting, wired the way Tableau expects.

Same build, timed twice. With the skill: 1 minute 20 seconds. Without it: 8 minutes 33 seconds, most of it spent fixing the errors this file prevents.

"The new skill was great. I went from zero to a working dashboard in one initial prompt. I liked some of the standards that were baked in without having to discover them throughout, like creating 2 manifest.trex files for dev and prod."

Michael McCusker, Tableau Tech Lead

The file arrives attached as SKILL.md, ready to drop into .claude/skills/tableau-extensions/ or hand to whatever agent you use. Curious what we store? Your data, plainly.