Official agent skill

Creating Box Plot Insights

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Creates product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Creating Box Plot Insights

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill creating-box-plot-insights -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog creating-box-plot-insights --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/product_analytics/skills/creating-box-plot-insights .claude/skills/creating-box-plot-insights && 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
creating-box-plot-insights
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
489 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
252
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Creates product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the event or action and its… → Build an InsightVizNode whose source is… → Run the query with posthog:query-trends. → …
  • A user asks to create
  • SKILL.md covers Choose the query type, Standard product analytics box…, SQL box plot and Verify the saved insight, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Creating Box Plot Insights is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Creates product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog. Use when a user asks to create, build, or save a box plot, visualize a numeric distribution, compare quartiles or medians across dates or groups, or turn SQL results into a box plot. Chooses between a standard Trends box plot and a SQL insight, validates the distribution data, saves the insight, and verifies it.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sql-examples.md`).

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Product analytics and SQL. It works with SQL 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

  • A user asks to create
  • Save a box plot
  • Visualize a numeric distribution
  • Compare quartiles

Example prompts

  • “Use the creating-box-plot-insights skill to create product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog”
  • “/creating-box-plot-insights”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the event or action and its numeric property. Confirm the property is numeric before saving.
  2. Build an InsightVizNode whose source is a TrendsQuery
  3. Run the query with posthog:query-trends.
  4. If it returns distribution rows, save it with posthog:insight-create.
  5. Read it back with posthog:insight-get and confirm the property, interval, and display.

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

Creating Box Plot Insights loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 489 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
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.8k

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 489 words (~1,084 tokens).

“Box plots need distribution data, not an already-aggregated average or total. Choose the simplest query type that can express the user's question.”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
creating-box-plot-insights

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in products/product_analytics/skills/creating-box-plot-insights of PostHog/posthog.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sql-examples.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 Creating Box Plot Insights

What does Creating Box Plot Insights do?

Creates product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog. Creating Box Plot Insights is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Creates product analytics or SQL-backed box plot insights in PostHog.

When should I use Creating Box Plot Insights?

Creating Box Plot Insights fits situations like: A user asks to create; save a box plot; visualize a numeric distribution; compare quartiles.

How do I install Creating Box Plot Insights in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill creating-box-plot-insights -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (products/product_analytics/skills/creating-box-plot-insights in PostHog/posthog) into .claude/skills/creating-box-plot-insights in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Creating Box Plot Insights in Codex?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill creating-box-plot-insights -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (products/product_analytics/skills/creating-box-plot-insights in PostHog/posthog) into .agents/skills/creating-box-plot-insights in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Creating Box Plot Insights 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 creating-box-plot-insights -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/creating-box-plot-insights, .gemini/skills/creating-box-plot-insights, .github/skills/creating-box-plot-insights and .opencode/skills/creating-box-plot-insights in your project.

What does Creating Box Plot Insights need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Creating Box Plot Insights is instructions for the agent only.

Does Creating Box Plot Insights 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 Creating Box Plot Insights 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 Creating Box Plot Insights use?

Creating Box Plot Insights 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 Creating Box Plot Insights use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k 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 751 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Creating Box Plot Insights?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Creating Box Plot Insights: Almost Paid (nestyme/awesome-prompts, 151 stars), Data Analyst (borghei/Claude-Skills, 881 stars), Lens Metrics (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars) and Find Hypertable Candidates (timescale/pg-aiguide, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Creating Box Plot Insights?

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.