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- ▌ Auditing Experiments Flags · posthog bundleAudit PostHog experiments and feature flags for configuration issues, staleness, and best-practice violations. Read when the user asks to audit, health-check, or review experiments or feature flags, check flag hygiene, or verify experiment setup.
- ▌ Exploring MCP Tool Quality · posthogInvestigate the quality of PostHog MCP tool calls — error rates, latency, reach, and which tools are failing or slow. Use when the user asks "which MCP tool has the highest error rate?", "what's the slowest tool?", "which tools fail most often?", "how reliable is tool X?", wants a tool-quality matrix, or pastes an MCP analytics tool-quality / dashboard URL and asks what it shows.
- ▌ Signals Scout Skills Store · posthogSkill-hygiene scout for the team's PostHog skills store. Watches recently-changed and most- used skills for authoring violations — vague descriptions, bloated bodies, dead file links, kitchen-sink scope, committed secrets.
- ▌ Creating Online Evaluations · posthog bundleAuthor continuously-running online evaluations in PostHog AI observability, grounded in real failure modes you've identified. Use when the user wants evaluations that automatically score new generations or whole traces going forward — "create an eval to catch X", "continuously check that responses do Y", "turn these failures into evals". Covers letting the explored data decide how many evals to create, proposing that set in plain language and asking the user which ones they want, choosing the target and eval type (hog / llm_judge / sentiment), configuring a provider, model, and usable provider key for an llm_judge eval, scoping which generations trigger it via conditions, creating disabled, verifying scope, and enabling. Falls back to proposing a sentiment eval when no failure mode is worth catching. Finding and ranking the failure modes worth evaluating is its own job — use exploring-ai-failures first. To debug or manage evaluations that already exist, use exploring-llm-evaluations.
- ▌ Signals Scout Conversations · posthogSignals scout for PostHog Conversations (support inbox). Watches `$conversation_*` ticket- lifecycle events for SLA breach steps, first-response latency blowouts, backlog imbalance, and channel or assignment concentration.
- ▌ Signals Scout Feature Flags · posthogSignals scout for PostHog feature flags. Watches the flag roster and the `$feature_flag_called` stream for evaluation cliffs, ghost flags, response-distribution shifts, and flag debt.
- ▌ Signals Scout Health Checks · posthogSignals scout over PostHog's own health checks. Bundles the project's active health issues by kind, weights them by blast radius, and surfaces the ones worth acting on.
- ▌ Signals Scout Replay Vision · posthogSignals scout for PostHog Replay Vision scanners. Watches that enabled scanners keep observing (throughput and quota cliffs) and that aggregate score shifts and recurring themes get surfaced.
- ▌ Signals Scout Web Analytics · posthogSignals scout for PostHog web traffic. Watches per-channel session volume, attribution breakage, and landing-page health (bounce and 404 steps) against the site's own baseline. Per- page web vitals belong to `signals-scout-web-vitals`.
- ▌ Choosing Trend Or Slope View · posthogClarify how to visualize change over a time range before building a trend. Use whenever the user asks how much something changed, grew, dropped, improved, or regressed between two points or periods — "how much did X change from A to B", "before vs after", "start vs end", "week over week", "compare this month to last", "change over time" — or mentions a "slope chart" / "slopegraph". Two readings of "change" need different charts: the whole trend (a line, every interval) versus just the two endpoints (a slope, start vs end). Ask which they want, then render it. Not for choosing a saved insight ChartDisplayType in the insight editor.
- ▌ Instrument Product Analytics · posthog bundleAdd PostHog product analytics events to track user behavior. Use after implementing new features or reviewing PRs to ensure meaningful user actions are captured. Also handles initial PostHog SDK setup if not yet installed.
- ▌ Resolving Ingestion Warnings · posthog bundleDiagnoses and resolves PostHog ingestion warnings — problems recorded while ingesting events (dropped events, rejected person merges, oversized payloads, invalid data). Use when a user asks why events are missing, dropped, or undercounted, why identify/alias calls don't work or accounts stay duplicated, why person or group properties aren't updating or profiles look inflated, why recordings have gaps, heatmaps are empty, LLM token counts are missing, why cookieless events vanish, or whenever the `ingestion_warning` health check fires. Explains severity triage (error = dropped, warning = modified, info = intentional) and routes all warning types — size limits and enrichment, merges and distinct IDs, `$process_person_profile`, timestamps, cookieless, heatmaps, transformations, session replay — to per-issue reference files with code-level causes and per-SDK fixes.
- ▌ Signals Scout Data Pipelines · posthogSignals scout for PostHog data pipelines — CDP destinations and transformations, batch exports, and hog flows. Watches for delivery failures, degraded functions, and stalled exports against each pipeline's baseline.
- ▌ Signals Scout Data Warehouse · posthogSignals scout for warehouse imports. Watches external data sources, sync schemas, webhook push channels, and materialized views for failures, silent staleness, and row-volume cliffs, and suggests materialization candidates from recurring query-log hot spots.
- ▌ Signals Scout Error Tracking · posthogSignals scout for PostHog error tracking. Watches `$exception` bursts, stuck loops, multi- fingerprint clusters, and status regressions.
- ▌ Signals Scout Insight Alerts · posthogSignals scout over the project's configured insight alerts. Reads each alert's recent firing history and surfaces the firings a human likely missed.
- ▌ Signals Scout MCP Tool Calls · posthog bundleSignals scout for PostHog MCP tool calls. Watches `$mcp_tool_call` telemetry for tools that need improvement — broad-reach failure rates, retry hammering, slow or context-bloating responses — grouped by owning product category, each with a fix suggestion.
- ▌ Signals Scout Session Replay · posthogSignals scout for PostHog session replay. Watches that sessions keep recording (capture cliffs) and surfaces friction inside recordings — rage/dead-click clusters, error-after- interaction cohorts.
- ▌ Copying Flags Across Projects · posthogCopy a feature flag from one PostHog project to one or more target projects in the same organization. Use when the user wants to duplicate a flag, promote a flag from staging to production, sync flags across projects, or replicate a flag configuration in a different workspace. Covers cohort remapping, scheduled-change handling, encrypted payloads, and the safe defaults (disabled in target, no scheduled changes).
- ▌ Managing Experiment Lifecycle · posthogGuides experiment state transitions: launching, pausing, resuming, freezing/unfreezing exposure, ending, shipping variants, archiving, resetting, duplicating, and copying to another project. Covers preconditions, implications for variant assignment and analysis, and the decision framework for when to use each action. TRIGGER when: user asks to launch, pause, resume, end, ship, archive, reset, duplicate, or copy an experiment to another project, or to freeze/unfreeze exposure (stop enrolling new users while metrics keep flowing, or reopen enrollment). DO NOT TRIGGER when: user is creating an experiment (use creating-experiments), configuring rollout (use configuring-experiment-rollout), or setting up metrics (use configuring-experiment-analytics).
- ▌ Signals Scout AI Observability · posthog bundleSignals scout for PostHog AI observability. Watches LLM traces for cost, latency, error, volume, and eval-performance regressions.
- ▌ Signals Scout Inbox Validation · posthogFollow-up Signals scout for the inbox itself. Re-measures the problems behind recently resolved reports after a soak window and reports when a fix didn't hold, plus a gated escalation check on dismissed reports.
- ▌ Creating Replay Vision Scanners · posthogGuides agents through creating and safely sizing a Replay Vision scanner: choosing the scanner type (monitor/classifier/scorer/summarizer), shaping the RecordingsQuery that selects sessions, and — crucially — estimating the credits it will spend and checking the org's remaining budget before creating, so a broad scanner doesn't exhaust the budget on its first scheduled sweep. TRIGGER when: user asks to create, set up, or configure a Replay Vision scanner, OR when you are about to call vision-scanners-create, OR when widening an existing scanner's query, sampling_rate, or sampling_mode (or moving it to a pricier model) via vision-scanners-update. DO NOT TRIGGER when: only reading scanners or observations, deleting a scanner, or running an existing scanner against a single session on demand (vision-scanners-scan-session). For a one-off question about sessions you already have, use vision-scanners-inline-scan-create rather than creating a scanner — the skill's first section covers when that applies.
- ▌ Signals Scout Anomaly Detection · posthog bundleSignals scout that watches the project's most-viewed dashboards and insights for anomalies — bursts, drops, flat-lines, and trend breaks — against each insight's own seasonality-matched baseline.
- ▌ Signals Scout Product Analytics · posthogSignals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths. Watches the team's saved flows for a derived-rate regression while entrants hold.
- ▌ Signals Scout Revenue Analytics · posthogSignals scout for PostHog revenue analytics. Watches for upstream failures (Stripe sync stalls, capture regressions), config drift, and goal-miss escalations.
- ▌ Signals Scout Customer Analytics · posthogSignals scout for PostHog Customer analytics (Accounts). Watches per-account engagement for churn-risk shapes — engagement cliffs, dormancy, champion departure — and the expansion inverse.
- ▌ Signals Scout Observability Gaps · posthogSignals scout for observability gaps — significant event volumes with no insight, dashboard, or alert coverage. Recommends new insights, dashboards, or alerts as the product evolves.
- ▌ Adding Warehouse Person Properties · posthogSync columns from a synced data warehouse table onto PostHog person or group properties, so warehouse data becomes usable anywhere person and group properties already work: feature flag targeting, cohorts, insight filters and breakdowns, surveys, session replay filters, workflows, and the person profile. Use when the user wants to "add a person property from my warehouse", "enrich people with Stripe/Postgres/Salesforce data", "put ARR or plan tier on my persons", "target a feature flag by a warehouse column", "sync warehouse columns onto groups or organizations", or wants to inspect, backfill, disable, or debug an existing warehouse-backed person or group property.
- ▌ Validating And Publishing Canvases · posthogValidate and publish a canvas source project safely: the source-project shape, declared capabilities, reading the current version pointer, iterating on validation diagnostics, guarded publishing with expected_current_version_id, staging a draft build and promoting it, waiting out the queued build, and recovering from a 409 version_conflict or a 429 capacity limit without overwriting concurrent work. Use whenever a canvas edit is ready to save, a draft build is wanted, a canvas publish or build returns diagnostics or a conflict, or a task needs to understand canvas version history.
- ▌ Diagnosing CI And Merge Bottlenecks · posthogDiagnoses CI and pull-request pipeline health for a GitHub repo using the engineering analytics MCP tools — pull-requests (PR list with CI status), workflow-health (per-workflow CI trends), and pr-lifecycle (a single PR's timeline). Use when asked whether CI is getting faster or slower, which GitHub Actions workflow is the slow or flaky long-pole, how long PRs take from open to merge, how an author's merge time compares to the cohort, which open PRs have failing or pending CI, or where a specific pull request is stuck. Triggers on "engineering analytics", "is CI getting slower", "slow workflow", "flaky CI", "time to merge", "cycle time", "PR throughput", "failing checks", "where is PR <n> stuck", "CI long pole", "what's holding up this PR". For a verdict on one specific CI failure (whose fault, which commit) use investigating-ci-failures; to save these numbers as insights use turning-engineering-analytics-into-insights.
- ▌ Exploring Replay Vision Observations · posthogGuides agents through pulling a Replay Vision scanner's observations, reading the findings, and acting on them — summarizing patterns across sessions, drilling into individual recordings, and turning real, corroborated issues into PostHog tasks, insights, or an investigating-replay hand-off. TRIGGER when: user wants to pull/read/triage Replay Vision observations, asks "what has my scanner found", wants to act on or summarize scanner findings, turn observations into tasks/work, or points at a /replay-vision/<scanner-id> URL. DO NOT TRIGGER when: creating or sizing a scanner (use creating-replay-vision-scanners), running a one-off scan you don't then analyse, or authoring a signals scout.
- ▌ Signals Scout Customer Analytics Billing And Usage · posthogSignals scout for per-account product-mix shifts. Watches each staked account's usage and forecasted MRR per product for one product dropping or spiking against its own baseline while the account total holds.
- ▌ Adding Ingestion Warnings · posthogHow to add a new ingestion warning type to the event ingestion pipeline. Use when emitting a new warning from nodejs ingestion code (emitIngestionWarning, captureIngestionWarning, pipeline `warnings` arrays, `drop()` with warnings), when adding a warning type, category, or severity, or when a typecheck error says a string is not assignable to IngestionWarningType. Covers the INGESTION_WARNING_TYPES registry (the single source of truth for type, category, and severity), the details-key conventions that ClickHouse v2 materializes into columns, debouncing, and the downstream surfaces to keep in sync (v1 UI map, resolving-ingestion-warnings skill, docs, v2 API).
- ▌ Gating Production Deploys · posthogUse when adding or editing a GitHub Actions workflow that pushes a container image to a registry (ECR/ghcr/Docker Hub via build-push-action) or dispatches a production deploy (a `commit_state_update` repository_dispatch to PostHog/charts). Those run from a single canonical deploy repo, gated by the CD_DEPLOY_ENABLED variable. Does NOT apply to workflows that publish GitHub releases, npm, crates, or Homebrew — those stay on the public repo.
- ▌ Using Redis Token Buckets · posthogUse when adding a bucket-like rate limit backed by Redis: a per-caller budget with burst capacity and continuous refill, a refund path for requests that did no work, or a limit whose Retry-After must be a real wait rather than a window edge. `posthog/token_bucket.py` provides an atomic Lua token bucket (`consume`, `refund`, `peek`) over `posthog.redis.get_client()`. Choose it over DRF `SimpleRateThrottle`/fixed-window cache counters when boundary bursts, top-of-window lockouts, or charge-then-refund semantics matter. Trigger terms: token bucket, rate limit, burst, refill, quota, Retry-After, fixed window, throttle.
- ▌ Adding MCP Store Servers · posthogAdd a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog. Use when asked to "add X to the MCP store", expand the MCP server marketplace, or fix a broken catalog entry. Covers finding the vendor's remote MCP endpoint, probing it (handshake, OAuth discovery, DCR), authoring the catalog entry in products/mcp_store/backend/catalog.py, verification tiers, and the operator handoff for servers without Dynamic Client Registration.
- ▌ Implementing MCP UI Apps · posthogGuide for adding MCP UI apps — interactive visualizations that render tool results in MCP clients like Claude Desktop. Use when adding a new detail or list view for an MCP tool, creating view components in products/*/mcp/apps/, or linking tools to UI apps via YAML.
- ▌ Maintaining Python Tests · posthog bundleMaintains existing pytest and Django test suites without weakening correctness. Use when asked to reduce Python test runtime or CI work, investigate slow pytest families, remove stale migration tests, consolidate repeated setup, improve Python test ownership, or measure whether a test optimization worked after merge. Ranks work by measured cost, applies the writing-tests value gate to existing coverage, preserves distinct behavior cases, validates isolation after shared-fixture changes, and separates testcase work from pytest-suite wall time. For an intermittent failure, use fixing-flaky-tests instead.
- ▌ Manage Dashboard Widgets · posthog bundleGuides PostHog engineers through dashboard widget platform work — ship a new widget_type (WIDGET_REGISTRY, catalog, run_widgets, WidgetCard) or update a shipped type (config, query, layout, RBAC, tile filter bar, list footer, titleHref, throttles). Use for WidgetSpec, widget_specs/, widget-configs.zod.ts, hogli build:openapi, error_tracking_list, session_replay_list, widgetFilters, formatWidgetListCountFooter, widget_query_throttle, or WidgetCard composition. New types need widget-intake confirmation first. Not for MCP batch-add of existing types or adding tiles to a dashboard.
- ▌ Writing User Facing Copy · posthogSets the voice and word choices for any text a person reads in PostHog: UI labels, buttons, tooltips, empty and error states, notifications, in-app messages, onboarding, docs, and support replies. Use ALWAYS before writing or editing user-facing copy, and whenever a code change adds or changes a string a user will see. Enforces a humane, neutral tone: no editorializing, no sales-y or edgy one-liners, no em-dashes (use hyphens or rewrite), sentence case, plain language. Also carries feature-naming rules that are easy to get wrong, most importantly how to talk about the Wizard (name it "Wizard" once, then call it "the setup agent" / "the agent"). Not for internal code comments, commit messages, or variable names.
- ▌ Investigating Logs · posthogInvestigate logs in a PostHog project: verify a service or deployment is healthy, explain an error spike, triage an incident, or understand what a log stream is saying. Use when the user asks to "check the logs", asks whether a service, deploy, release, or change is working or broke anything, asks why errors are up or what changed, or wants the root cause of failures visible in logs. Routes the logs MCP tools (services overview, pattern mining, before/after pattern diffing, bucketed counts, facets, raw rows) so investigations start from summaries instead of raw rows or hand-written SQL over the logs table.
- ▌ Adding Activity Logging · posthogAdds or changes activity logging (the audit trail) for a Django model in PostHog. Use when a model's writes must show in the Activity side panel or the advanced activity logs, when adding ModelActivityMixin, an ActivityScope, a model_activity_signal receiver, an activity describer, or field exclusions, when auditing which write paths of a model are logged, or when a change is missing from the activity log. Covers the receiver-module convention, writes the signal cannot see (QuerySet.update, bulk_create), the actor outside requests, and product models on a separate database. Trigger terms - activity log, audit log, audit trail, ModelActivityMixin, log_activity, changes_between, activity describer, who changed this.
- ▌ Adding Product Alerting · posthog bundleRecommended repo-engineering guide when adding alerting to a PostHog product or extending the shared alerts platform. Routes lifecycle state machines, AlertPolicy, destinations, HogFunction dispatch, email, fixed-cadence and calendar scheduling, insight evaluation, the AlertWizard, and shared alert editor components. Use for product alert implementations, shared destination types, lifecycle or scheduling options, advanced alert settings, and platform alert infrastructure. Not for configuring alerts in an existing product.
- ▌ Improving Drf Endpoints · posthog bundleUse when editing, reviewing, or auditing DRF viewsets and serializers in PostHog. Triggers on files in posthog/api/, products/*/backend/api/, products/*/backend/presentation/, or any file importing rest_framework. Covers field typing, schema annotations, enum collision fixes, and OpenAPI spec quality — everything that flows downstream into generated TypeScript types and MCP tools.
- ▌ Querying Local Postgres · posthogRun read-only SQL against the local Postgres app database (SELECT, EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN ANALYZE on SELECT). Default local URL postgres://posthog:posthog@localhost:5432/posthog; else DATABASE_URL. Use when querying the local DB, inspecting tables, debugging data, or analyzing query plans. Mutations are strictly forbidden.
- ▌ Writing Pr Descriptions · posthog bundleShapes a PR body into something a reviewer understands at a glance. Use ALWAYS before writing or editing a PR description, before `gh pr create` or `gh pr edit --body`, and when asked to improve an existing description. Puts the effect a person sees in the first line and the mechanism under it, routes each remaining fact to the form that carries it fastest (bullet, table, diagram, screenshot, collapsed block), cuts everything a reviewer does not need, then holds what survives to a checkable shape: one fact per bullet, sentences under 25 words, active voice, no idioms. Makes the body stand alone, so a reader who opens no files still knows why the PR is necessary and what it does, sizes the body to the change so a small PR reads as small, and makes every claim either linked to its evidence or labeled as unchecked. Ends with a scan test over the title and the first lines of Problem and Changes. Not for commit messages (see AGENTS.md, "Commit types") or user-facing product copy (see `/writing-user-facing-copy`).
- ▌ Authoring CI Workflows · posthogUse when adding or editing a GitHub Actions workflow, composite action, or reusable workflow under `.github/` — new CI jobs, triggers, matrices, checkout/clone tuning, action pinning, GitHub App token auth, concurrency groups, `timeout-minutes`, `paths` filters, caching, or runner choice. Covers PostHog's workflow-authoring conventions and the reasons behind them: the 500-runs/10s dispatch cap, shallow vs full clone, per-SHA push concurrency, dedicated App-token rate-limit buckets, and fork-safe secrets on a public repo. Points to the linters (`bin/hogli lint:workflows`, actionlint) that enforce the mechanical rules, and to the narrower skills for production deploys, secrets, and Depot runners. Not for debugging red CI (use debugging-ci-failures) or wiring a new secret end to end (use managing-github-actions-secrets).
- ▌ Depot Container Builds · posthog bundleConfigures and runs Depot remote container builds using `depot build` and `depot bake`. Use when building Docker images, creating Dockerfiles with Depot, pushing images to registries, building multi-platform/multi-arch images (linux/amd64, linux/arm64), debugging container build failures, optimizing Dockerfile layer caching, using docker-bake.hcl or docker-compose builds, or migrating from `docker build` / `docker buildx build` to Depot. Also use when the user mentions depot build, depot bake, container builds, image builds, or asks about Depot's build cache, build parallelism, or ephemeral registry.
- ▌ Implementing MCP Tools · posthogGuide for exposing PostHog product endpoints as MCP tools. Use when creating new or updating API endpoints, adding MCP tool definitions, scaffolding YAML configs, or writing serializers with good descriptions. Covers the full pipeline from Django serializer to generated TypeScript tool handler.
- ▌ Clickhouse Migrations · posthogClickHouse migration patterns and rules. Use when creating or modifying ClickHouse migrations.
- ▌ Debugging CI Failures · posthog bundleDebugs failing GitHub Actions CI runs for PostHog PRs, commits, and branches, and answers broad CI-health questions ("is CI red?", "is master green today?", "what's broken right now?"). Use when the user asks why CI is red, asks for the current CI or master status, or mentions a failing check, GitHub Actions run, Depot runner, workflow, job, shard, merge queue kick, flaky test, lint failure, typecheck failure, snapshot diff, migration check, generated types drift, or skills build failure. Start with the `hogli ci:insights` digest (cross-run CI history from engineering analytics), then guides read-only inspection, failure classification, smallest local reproduction with hogli, and safe reporting without rerunning CI or posting to GitHub. Running unattended as the "Master-red diagnosis" workflow: see references/master-red-incident.md.
- ▌ Sending Notifications · posthogHow to send real-time in-app notifications from PostHog backend code. Use when integrating notifications into a new feature, wiring up a notification source (alerts, comments, approvals, pipelines, issues), or choosing the right target type and priority for a notification.
- ▌ Using Kea Disposables · posthogUse when adding timers (`setInterval`, `setTimeout`), event listeners (`window.addEventListener`, `document.addEventListener`, `MediaQueryList.addEventListener`), or any other resource that needs cleanup inside a kea logic. Every logic has `cache.disposables.add(setup, key?, options?)` and `cache.disposables.dispose(key)` available via the globally registered `disposablesPlugin` (`frontend/src/kea-disposables.ts`). Replaces the bare `cache.foo = setInterval(...)` + `beforeUnmount: clearInterval(cache.foo)` pattern and auto-pauses background work when the tab is hidden.
- ▌ Writing Code Comments · posthogGates whether a code comment should exist and forces the ones that stay to explain why, not what. Use ALWAYS before writing or editing a comment in any language (Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, SQL), and when reviewing a diff that adds comments. Removes the comment types that clutter the codebase: narration that restates the code, change-history and chat-context notes ("previously did X", "per PR #123", "AI:"), perishable measurements and current-state stamps ("~20 min build", "currently", "today"), commented-out code, and redundant docstrings. Keeps the ones that earn their place: a non-obvious why, a warning about a non-local consequence, a pointer to context a future reader can't reconstruct. Not for user-facing copy (see `/writing-user-facing-copy`) or commit messages.
- ▌ Writing UI Components · posthog bundleStructure and abstraction rules for PostHog UI code — any React component or frontend file under `frontend/src/` or `products/*/frontend/`. Use ALWAYS before creating, moving, splitting, or restructuring a component or frontend file, extracting a shared/generic component, promoting a component to `lib/`, renaming a frontend symbol or feature, or reviewing a diff that does any of these. Covers file and folder organization (one component per file, one home per symbol, no re-export shims or barrels), when duplication becomes a component and when a generic is premature, rename sweeps and the frozen-strings contract (event names, properties, flag keys, `data-attr` values are API), UI resolution states (loading, empty, and error are three different screens), and visual discipline (design tokens, on-brand custom components with no AI slop, real interactive elements, reduced motion, Storybook). Component choice (Lemon vs quill) lives in `frontend/src/AGENTS.md` Rule 1; state management in `/writing-kea-logics`.
- ▌ Adding Inbox Sources · posthogAdd a new warehouse-backed source to the PostHog Desktop Self-driving Inbox (the feature that ships GitHub, Linear, Zendesk, pganalyze, Jira). A source syncs one warehouse table (issues/tickets/conversations) and a cloud "signals scout" watches it and emits findings. Use when asked to "add a new inbox/self-driving source", "wire up <Jira/GitLab/Sentry/Intercom/Freshdesk/Front/Gorgias/etc> as a signal source", or to extend the source-toggle grid. Covers all three surfaces (posthog/posthog scout emitter + posthog/code UI wiring + the context-mill self-driving wizard skill that offers the source in `npx @posthog/wizard self-driving`), the deploy ordering between them, and created_via attribution.
- ▌ Adding Personhog Rpc · posthog bundleGuide for adding a new RPC to personhog-replica and personhog-router. Covers eligibility checks, proto definition, code generation for Python and Node.js clients, Rust implementation (storage trait, postgres queries, service handler, router wiring), and index compatibility validation. Use when adding a new gRPC endpoint to personhog, migrating a Django ORM query to personhog, or extending the personhog service API.
- ▌ Depot Github Runners · posthog bundleConfigures Depot-managed GitHub Actions runners as a drop-in replacement for GitHub-hosted runners. Use when setting up or migrating GitHub Actions workflows to use Depot runners, choosing runner sizes (CPU/RAM), configuring runs-on labels, setting up ARM or Windows or macOS runners, troubleshooting GitHub Actions runner issues, configuring egress filtering, using Depot Cache with GitHub Actions, or running Dagger/Dependabot on Depot runners. Also use when the user mentions depot-ubuntu, depot-windows, depot-macos runner labels, or asks about faster/cheaper GitHub Actions runners. Not for Depot CI, the separate engine that reads .depot/workflows/ — that is the depot-ci skill.
- ▌ Running CI Preflight · posthogCatch the deterministic CI failures reachable from your diff before pushing, with `hogli ci:preflight`. Use when the pre-push hook blocks a push, before reporting a task done, or after editing Python, serializers, migrations, workflows, or dependency manifests — to avoid burning a CI matrix on a failure you could catch locally (formatting, lint, broken lockfiles, OpenAPI drift, migration conflict, stale branch). Trigger terms: ci:preflight, preflight, pre-push checks, pre-push hook failed, "will this break CI".
- ▌ Django Startup Time · posthogKeep heavy imports off the django.setup() path that every process (web, celery, temporal, migrate, shell, CI) pays for. Use when touching AppConfig.ready(), wiring signal receivers, editing the lazy API router (posthog/api/rest_router.py or its __init__.py shim), deferring a heavy import, when the startup-import-budget guard fails, or when merging master into a long-lived branch that made the router lazy.
- ▌ Managing Dashboards · posthog bundleGuides PostHog engineers through dashboard platform and scene changes. Use when changing Dashboard, DashboardTile, dashboardLogic, dashboard layouts, dashboard sharing or embeds, public dashboards, templates, filters, variables, refresh behavior, tile loading, dashboard lists, or dashboard permissions. Covers normal, shared, embedded, export, product-embedded, and template surfaces; RBAC; cache and query behavior; responsive layouts; and large or small dashboards. Use manage-dashboard-widgets instead for a widget_type or WidgetCard change.
- ▌ Working With Charts · posthogGuides consumers of @posthog/quill-charts through chart selection, data, themes, sizing, and composition. Use when adding or changing a chart built with the package, including its axes, tooltips, legend, overlays, or interactions. Links to package examples and API docs. Does not cover product integration or library internals.
- ▌ Writing Dataclasses · posthogHouse rules for Python dataclasses in PostHog: when to reach for one instead of a tuple or `dict[str, Any]`, which decorator to use (`@frozen` from `posthog.dataclasses`), how to name, construct, consume and evolve them, how to keep secrets out of `repr`, and when a function should accept a dataclass instead of its unpacked fields. Use when adding or changing a dataclass, returning or passing several values from a function, converting a tuple or dict payload, deciding `frozen=`/`slots=`/`kw_only=`, or passing a facade contract DTO through internal layers. Not for pydantic models used as HogQL/query schema, DRF serializers, or Django models.
- ▌ Fixing Flaky Tests · posthogGuides an agent through reproducing, root-causing, fixing, and validating flaky tests in the PostHog monorepo. Use when a test fails intermittently in CI but passes on rerun or locally, when `hogli ci:insights` or the debugging-ci-failures skill classifies a failure as a flaky test, when given a GitHub Actions URL for a flaky job, when asked to check Trunk Flaky Tests for a test, PR, or master, or when asked to deflake, stabilize, or fix a flaky Jest, pytest, or Playwright test. Core discipline: reproduce locally before changing anything, fix the root cause (never mask it with sleeps, retries, or bigger timeouts), and prove the fix with an N-run validation loop sized to the observed failure rate. Stabilizing is not the only valid outcome — the skill also gates whether the test should exist, so deleting a test that catches nothing real, or re-leveling one that flakes because of the level it runs at, are first-class endings.
- ▌ Writing Kea Logics · posthog bundleGuide for writing or reviewing PostHog kea logic files (`*Logic.ts` / `*Logic.tsx`). Use when creating a new logic, adding actions/reducers/selectors/listeners/loaders/forms/router bindings, choosing between reducer vs selector vs cache, deciding between listeners and `kea-subscriptions`, wiring React with `useValues`/`useActions`/`BindLogic`, or onboarding to kea conventions. Read keajs.org for upstream API; this skill captures PostHog-specific conventions and idioms.
- ▌ Django Migrations · posthogDjango migration patterns and safety workflow for PostHog. Use when creating, adjusting, or reviewing Django/Postgres migrations, including non-blocking index/constraint changes, multi-phase schema changes, data backfills, migration conflict rebasing, and product model moves that require SeparateDatabaseAndState. Also use for any deletion or removal of a model, table, column, product, or app — including deleting migration files or retiring a feature — even when no migration is written.
- ▌ Setting Up Devbox · posthogGuide a PostHog engineer through spinning up, connecting to, running commands on, and mirroring local code to a remote devbox (a Coder workspace running the full PostHog stack). Use when asked to set up a devbox, start or connect to a devbox, configure remote dev, get gh CLI / Claude Code authed on a devbox, run a command on a devbox, sync a local checkout so you can edit locally while the stack runs remotely (devbox:sync), or diagnose why a devbox command fails. Covers the tailnet prerequisite, hogli devbox commands, Coder user secrets for auth, one-way local->remote sync via mutagen, and verifying with devbox:exec. How each dev personalizes their box is left to them.
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- ▌ Signals · posthogHow to query the document_embeddings table for raw signal data using HogQL. Use when you need to perform semantic search over signals, fetch every signal that contributed to a specific report, or list signal types. For browsing the curated report layer (the Inbox) — listing reports, filtering by status/source, drilling into a single report by ID — use the `inbox-exploration` skill first; drop into this skill afterwards if the user wants the underlying observations.
- ▌ Posthog Desktop · posthogScopes work to the desktop app at products/desktop — a nested standalone pnpm/turbo/Biome workspace imported from the now-archived PostHog/code repo, with posthog/posthog the only source of truth for PRs, CI and publishing, and not part of the root frontend or Django build. Use when the user says /posthog-desktop, or works on the Electron desktop app, apps/code, apps/web, apps/mobile, packages/core, packages/ui, packages/workspace-server, @posthog/api-client, @posthog/agent, or the agent framework. Pins the working directory to products/desktop, swaps in that tree's toolchain and conventions in place of the monorepo's, and defines the few paths outside the tree that may be touched (Django APIs the app calls, desktop-* CI at the root).
- ▌ Querying Tophog · posthogQuery tophog — the ingestion pipeline's heavy-hitter store in ClickHouse — to identify hot or expensive actors (team_id, distinct_id, session_id, partition) during incident triage. Use when investigating ingestion lag, a hot or lagging Kafka partition, expensive person processing, merge storms, or any "which team or distinct_id is causing this" question. Covers the internal Metabase access path (SSO via hogli), the tophog schema, and the cost-vs-volume query lens. Internal-only: results contain cross-customer identifiers.
- ▌ Setup Web Tests · posthogSet up Python test environment in Claude Code for web where flox is unavailable. Use when you need to run backend tests and `uv sync` fails due to Python version mismatch.
- ▌ Scene Menu Bar · posthogConventions for adding or editing the SceneMenuBar above a scene's <SceneTitleSection>. Use when adding new menu items, moving items between menus, gating behind feature flags, building a new scene's menubar, or wiring rich inputs (tags, combobox) into the bar.
- ▌ Writing Evals · posthog bundleTeaches how to write and run evals on the `products/posthog_ai/eval_harness/` harness — sandboxed agent suites that execute the real coding agent in a Docker or Modal sandbox against a seeded Hedgebox project, and one-shot suites that score a single in-process model invocation per case. Use when adding or changing eval suites, cases, scorers, seeders, or synthesizers under `products/posthog_ai/evals/` or `products/*/evals/`, when touching the harness under `products/posthog_ai/eval_harness/`, or when running or debugging those evals (`hogli evals`). Covers suite kinds and discovery, case anatomy, the seeder/synthesizer split, the one-branch scorer patterns, and how to read results. Not for `ee/hogai/eval/ci/` pytest evals, and not for the LLM Analytics product's evaluation features.
- ▌ Writing Tests · posthog bundleGates whether a new test should exist and forces it to be efficient, protecting CI from low-value test bloat. Use before any change to what a pytest, Jest, or Playwright test asserts or sets up, down to one fixture or one assertion added to an existing block. Front-loads the value bar (every test must catch a realistic regression no existing test already catches; extend the nearest existing test before writing a new standalone one; test behavior through the public interface, not implementation details; collapse near-duplicates into parameterized cases) and the efficiency bar (deterministic, isolated, fast; pick the cheapest test level; Django TestCase over TransactionTestCase; no sleeps, no real network; no time bombs from absolute dates left to age against the real clock). Includes a "don't write it" decision tree. For fixing an existing flaky test use `/fixing-flaky-tests`; after this gate says a Playwright test is warranted, use `/playwright-test` for mechanics.
- ▌ React Doctor · posthogDiagnose and fix React codebase health issues. Use when reviewing React code, fixing performance problems, auditing security, or improving code quality.
- ▌ Stacking Prs · posthogCreate and manage GitHub native Stacked PRs in this repo with the `gh stack` CLI. Use when asked to stack PRs, split a large change into a stack, add a layer to a stack, restack or rebase a stack, adopt existing branches or PRs into a stack, check out someone else's stack, or land a stack. Covers creating and submitting stacks (draft-first), cascade rebases with `gh stack sync`, and landing one through the Trunk merge queue via `/merging-prs` — whole-stack via `/trunk merge` on the top layer, or bottom-first — never `gh stack merge`.
- ▌ Merging Prs · posthogMerge a PR into `master` through the Trunk merge queue and babysit it until it lands. Enqueue with a `/trunk merge` comment, then watch `trunk merge status` and the PR state until it is MERGED or the queue kicks it out, reporting Trunk's own reason for the terminal transition. Use when asked to merge a PR, "merge when ready", "land it", "ship it", to merge a whole stack (comment on the top PR — the queue merges it and every layer below atomically), to get a PR approved via the `stamphog` label, or to babysit/watch a PR through the queue. Never use `gh pr merge` in this repo — the queue is the only path into master.
- ▌ QA Frontend · posthog bundleInternal PostHog developer frontend/browser QA skill. Use only when a PostHog developer explicitly asks to run frontend QA, browser-test a PR, verify a UI flow against the local PostHog stack, use qa-frontend, or QA current frontend changes with browser/runtime evidence. Do not use for generic code review, PR review, "check my changes", CI debugging, or security audit; use qa-team, debugging-ci-failures, or security-audit instead. Runs in PR mode or local mode, plans adaptive browser and visual checks, drives browser MCP/tooling such as Playwright MCP or Chrome DevTools MCP, captures evidence, and applies only approved/narrow fixes.
- ▌ Run Posthog · posthogStart, inspect, and drive the PostHog dev stack. Use for /run and /verify on this repo — when asked to launch PostHog, check whether the stack is healthy, inspect a running process, or verify a UI change against the live app.
- ▌ QA Team · posthog bundleMulti-agent QA review team for code changes. This skill should be used when the user asks to "review my code", "run QA", "qa-team", "review this branch", "code review", "check my changes", or wants a comprehensive multi-perspective code review of the current branch's changes. Spawns parallel specialist agents (security, database, reliability, compatibility, data integrity, performance, frontend, copy) that independently review the diff and produce a converged report. Also includes two generalist reviewers for convergence validation.
- ▌ Hogli · posthogPostHog developer CLI and repo tooling reference. Use when the user mentions hogli, asks about repo CLI tools, bin scripts, Makefiles, how to run/build/test/lint, or any dev environment commands.