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Official agent skill

Exploring Autocapture Events

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching…

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Install Exploring Autocapture Events

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill exploring-autocapture-events -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog exploring-autocapture-events --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/exploring-autocapture-events .claude/skills/exploring-autocapture-events && 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
exploring-autocapture-events
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~2.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
971 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
252
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching…

  • Works in 8 steps: Confirm autocapture data exists → Explore what users are interacting with → Find candidate selectors → …
  • The user asks about autocapture data
  • SKILL.md covers Materialized columns, Canonical autocapture properties, Workflow and Tips
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Exploring Autocapture Events is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching clicks ad-hoc, and create actions. Use when the user asks about autocapture data, wants to find what users are clicking, needs to build actions from click events, asks about elementschain, wants to build a trend or funnel filtered by clicks or other autocapture interactions, asks which properties autocapture sends, or…

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/elements-chain-format.md` and `references/example-queries.md`).

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

  • The user asks about autocapture data
  • Wants to find what users are clicking
  • Needs to build actions from click events
  • Asks about elementschain

Example prompts

  • “Use the exploring-autocapture-events skill to guide exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find…”
  • “/exploring-autocapture-events”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Confirm autocapture data exists
  2. Explore what users are interacting with
  3. Find candidate selectors
  4. Evaluate selector uniqueness
  5. Refine with additional filters
  6. Filter autocapture inside an insight query
  7. Use in ad-hoc queries
  8. Create an action

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 812e5c6. 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 sql and 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

Exploring Autocapture Events loads about 2.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 160 tokens; SKILL.md has 971 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~160
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
~4.8k

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 971 words (~2,837 tokens).

“if users opt in then posthog-js automatically captures clicks, form submissions, and page changes as $autocapture events. Each event records the clicked DOM element and its ancestors in the elements_chain column.”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
exploring-autocapture-events

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in products/product_analytics/skills/exploring-autocapture-events of PostHog/posthog.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/elements-chain-format.md
  • references/example-queries.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 812e5c6

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 Exploring Autocapture Events

What does Exploring Autocapture Events do?

Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching…. Exploring Autocapture Events is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching clicks ad-hoc, and create actions.

When should I use Exploring Autocapture Events?

Exploring Autocapture Events fits situations like: the user asks about autocapture data; wants to find what users are clicking; needs to build actions from click events; asks about elementschain.

How do I install Exploring Autocapture Events in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Exploring Autocapture Events in Codex?

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

Can I use Exploring Autocapture Events 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 exploring-autocapture-events -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/exploring-autocapture-events, .gemini/skills/exploring-autocapture-events, .github/skills/exploring-autocapture-events and .opencode/skills/exploring-autocapture-events in your project.

What does Exploring Autocapture Events need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Exploring Autocapture Events is instructions for the agent only.

Does Exploring Autocapture Events 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 Exploring Autocapture Events 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 Exploring Autocapture Events use?

Exploring Autocapture Events 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 Exploring Autocapture Events 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 1.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Exploring Autocapture Events?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Exploring Autocapture Events: Opik Analytics Instrumentation (comet-ml/opik, 22k stars), C15t (c15t/c15t, 1.9k stars), Define Feature Flag (macro-inc/macro, 4.6k stars) and Soku CLI (About-Intelligence/soku-cli, 305 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Exploring Autocapture Events?

PostHog (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in PostHog/posthog, which has 40,200 GitHub stars. The repository holds 252 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 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.