Official agent skill

Authoring Error Tracking Alerts

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Author error tracking alerts that fire when an issue is created, reopened, or starts spiking.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Authoring Error Tracking Alerts

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill authoring-error-tracking-alerts -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog authoring-error-tracking-alerts --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/products/error_tracking/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts .claude/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts && 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
authoring-error-tracking-alerts
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~2.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,251 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
252
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Author error tracking alerts that fire when an issue is created, reopened, or starts spiking.

  • Works in 5 steps: Confirm intent → Dedupe against existing alerts → Pick the integration → …
  • The user asks to set up error notifications
  • SKILL.md covers When to use this skill, When not to use this skill, Tools and Trigger events — pick exactly…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Authoring Error Tracking Alerts is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Author error tracking alerts that fire when an issue is created, reopened, or starts spiking. Use when the user asks to set up error notifications, route exceptions to Slack/webhook/Linear, or evaluate which error events are worth alerting on. Covers trigger-event selection, integration choice, dedup against existing alerts, and shipping with the canonical message body shape.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/block-templates.md` and `references/event-triggers.md`).

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Webhooks. It works with Slack and 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

  • The user asks to set up error notifications
  • Route exceptions to Slack/webhook/Linear
  • Evaluate which error events are worth alerting on

Example prompts

  • “/authoring-error-tracking-alerts”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Confirm intent
  2. Dedupe against existing alerts
  3. Pick the integration
  4. Create the alert
  5. Verify

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 (its code samples are json).

    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

Authoring Error Tracking Alerts loads about 2.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,251 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6.7k

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 1,251 words (~2,751 tokens).

“Authoring an error tracking alert is a routing problem, not a measurement problem. The trigger events already exist and fire on real conditions in the ingestion pipeline — your job is to pick the right trigger for the user's intent…”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
authoring-error-tracking-alerts

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in products/error_tracking/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts of PostHog/posthog.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/block-templates.md
  • references/event-triggers.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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Questions about Authoring Error Tracking Alerts

What does Authoring Error Tracking Alerts do?

Author error tracking alerts that fire when an issue is created, reopened, or starts spiking. Authoring Error Tracking Alerts is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Author error tracking alerts that fire when an issue is created, reopened, or starts spiking.

When should I use Authoring Error Tracking Alerts?

Authoring Error Tracking Alerts fits situations like: the user asks to set up error notifications; route exceptions to Slack/webhook/Linear; evaluate which error events are worth alerting on.

How do I install Authoring Error Tracking Alerts in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill authoring-error-tracking-alerts -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (products/error_tracking/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts in PostHog/posthog) into .claude/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Authoring Error Tracking Alerts in Codex?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill authoring-error-tracking-alerts -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (products/error_tracking/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts in PostHog/posthog) into .agents/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Authoring Error Tracking Alerts 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 authoring-error-tracking-alerts -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts, .gemini/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts, .github/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts and .opencode/skills/authoring-error-tracking-alerts in your project.

What does Authoring Error Tracking Alerts need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Authoring Error Tracking Alerts is instructions for the agent only.

Does Authoring Error Tracking Alerts 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 Authoring Error Tracking Alerts 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 Authoring Error Tracking Alerts use?

Authoring Error Tracking Alerts 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 Authoring Error Tracking Alerts use?

About 2.8k 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 4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Authoring Error Tracking Alerts?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Authoring Error Tracking Alerts: Posthog Webhooks Events (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Channel Debug Core (vercel-labs/vercel-openclaw-archived, 117 stars), Frontmcp Channels (agentfront/frontmcp, 146 stars) and Add OAuth Integration (rome-os/rome, 725 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Authoring Error Tracking Alerts?

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.