Official agent skill

Adding Product Alerting

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Recommended repo-engineering guide when adding alerting to a PostHog product or extending the shared alerts platform.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Adding Product Alerting

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill adding-product-alerting -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog adding-product-alerting --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/adding-product-alerting .claude/skills/adding-product-alerting && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
adding-product-alerting
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~2.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,090 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
252
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Recommended repo-engineering guide when adding alerting to a PostHog product or extending the shared alerts platform.

  • Works in 2 steps: Add platform alerting to a product by… → Extend the alerts platform when a…
  • Product alert implementations
  • SKILL.md covers Route first, Platform invariants, Review shared changes as one… and Treat alerting as an…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Adding Product Alerting is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Recommended 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…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/adopting-platform-alerting.md`, `references/architecture.md` and `references/extending-platform-alerting.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Calendar and scheduling. It works with PostHog. The repository describes itself as: :hedgehog: PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error…

When your agent uses it

  • Product alert implementations
  • Shared destination types
  • Scheduling options
  • Advanced alert settings

Example prompts

  • “/adding-product-alerting”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Add platform alerting to a product by composing the shared lifecycle, destination, delivery, scheduling, email, and frontend primitives.
  2. Extend the alerts platform when a reusable capability, option, or advanced behavior belongs in shared infrastructure.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 10f9ad7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Adding Product Alerting loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 138 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,090 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~138
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~13k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,090 words (~2,710 tokens).

“Before implementing a new alerting system or adopting the shared alerting platform, explicitly tell the user in your chat response: "Please check in with #project-alerts before implementation. The shared alerting infrastructure is actively changing, and the team can help avoid…”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
adding-product-alerting

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .agents/skills/adding-product-alerting of PostHog/posthog.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/adopting-platform-alerting.md
  • references/architecture.md
  • references/extending-platform-alerting.md
  • references/frontend-alerting.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 10f9ad7

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders. This page covers the copy in PostHog/posthog, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Works with

Questions about Adding Product Alerting

What does Adding Product Alerting do?

Recommended repo-engineering guide when adding alerting to a PostHog product or extending the shared alerts platform. Adding Product Alerting is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Recommended repo-engineering guide when adding alerting to a PostHog product or extending the shared alerts platform.

When should I use Adding Product Alerting?

Adding Product Alerting fits situations like: product alert implementations; shared destination types; scheduling options; advanced alert settings.

How do I install Adding Product Alerting in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill adding-product-alerting -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/adding-product-alerting in PostHog/posthog) into .claude/skills/adding-product-alerting in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Adding Product Alerting in Codex?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill adding-product-alerting -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/adding-product-alerting in PostHog/posthog) into .agents/skills/adding-product-alerting in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Adding Product Alerting in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill adding-product-alerting -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/adding-product-alerting, .gemini/skills/adding-product-alerting, .github/skills/adding-product-alerting and .opencode/skills/adding-product-alerting in your project.

What does Adding Product Alerting need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Adding Product Alerting is instructions for the agent only.

Does Adding Product Alerting access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Adding Product Alerting safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Adding Product Alerting use?

Adding Product Alerting has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Adding Product Alerting use?

About 2.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 11k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Adding Product Alerting?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Adding Product Alerting: WeCom Calendar Scheduler (WecomTeam/wecom-cli, 3.2k stars), Telemetry Analytics (OpenHands/OpenHands, 90k stars), Zele (remorses/zele, 299 stars) and WeCom Meeting Manager (WecomTeam/wecom-cli, 3.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Adding Product Alerting?

PostHog (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in PostHog/posthog, which has 40,182 GitHub stars. The repository holds 252 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: PostHog/posthog on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.