Official agent skill

Exploring MCP Sessions

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Investigate individual PostHog MCP sessions — the sequence of tool calls a single agent made in one run, what it was trying to do, and where it went wrong.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Exploring MCP Sessions

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill exploring-mcp-sessions -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog exploring-mcp-sessions --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/mcp_analytics/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions .claude/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions && 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-mcp-sessions
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
789 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
252
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Investigate individual PostHog MCP sessions — the sequence of tool calls a single agent made in one run, what it was trying to do, and where it went wrong.

  • The user asks what did this MCP session do?
  • SKILL.md covers Tools, The date-window trap — read…, Workflow: list recent sessions and Workflow: read one session's…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Show me the tool calls for session X

What it does

Exploring MCP Sessions is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Investigate individual PostHog MCP sessions — the sequence of tool calls a single agent made in one run, what it was trying to do, and where it went wrong. Use when the user asks "what did this MCP session do?", "show me the tool calls for session X", "what was the agent's goal?", "which sessions had errors?", "who is connecting to my MCP?", or pastes an MCP analytics sessions URL.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering MCP servers. It works with Model Context Protocol, PostHog and SQL. 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 what did this MCP session do?
  • Show me the tool calls for session X
  • What was the agents goal?
  • Which sessions had errors?

Example prompts

  • “what did this MCP session do?”
  • “show me the tool calls for session X”
  • “what was the agent”
  • “/exploring-mcp-sessions”

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 and sql).

    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 MCP Sessions loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 789 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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 789 words (~2,053 tokens).

“An MCP session is one agent run: the set of $mcp_tool_call events sharing a $session_id, ordered by timestamp.”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
exploring-mcp-sessions

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in products/mcp_analytics/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions of PostHog/posthog.

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 Exploring MCP Sessions

What does Exploring MCP Sessions do?

Investigate individual PostHog MCP sessions — the sequence of tool calls a single agent made in one run, what it was trying to do, and where it went wrong. Exploring MCP Sessions is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Investigate individual PostHog MCP sessions — the sequence of tool calls a single agent made in one run, what it was trying to do, and where it went wrong.

When should I use Exploring MCP Sessions?

Exploring MCP Sessions fits situations like: the user asks what did this MCP session do?; show me the tool calls for session X; what was the agents goal?; which sessions had errors?.

How do I install Exploring MCP Sessions in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Exploring MCP Sessions in Codex?

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

Can I use Exploring MCP Sessions 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-mcp-sessions -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-mcp-sessions, .gemini/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions, .github/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions and .opencode/skills/exploring-mcp-sessions in your project.

What does Exploring MCP Sessions need to run?

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

Does Exploring MCP Sessions 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 MCP Sessions 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 MCP Sessions use?

Exploring MCP Sessions 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 MCP Sessions use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Exploring MCP Sessions?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Exploring MCP Sessions: Tool Selection (databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit, 1.9k stars), Meridian MCP (Meridiona/meridian, 411 stars), Head Of Data (getnao/sylph, 211 stars) and Google Cloud Storage Basics (google/skills, 21k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Exploring MCP Sessions?

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.