Official agent skill

Signals Scout Insight Alerts

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Signals scout over the project's configured insight alerts. An agent skill from PostHog/posthog.

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Install Signals Scout Insight Alerts

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill signals-scout-insight-alerts -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog signals-scout-insight-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/signals/skills/signals-scout-insight-alerts .claude/skills/signals-scout-insight-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
signals-scout-insight-alerts
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~3.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,881 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
254
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Signals scout over the project's configured insight alerts. An agent skill from PostHog/posthog.

  • SKILL.md covers Quick close-out: are there…, How a run works, Disqualifiers (skip these) and MCP tools, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Signals Scout Insight Alerts is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Signals scout over the project's configured insight alerts. Reads each alert's recent firing history and surfaces the firings a human likely missed.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: PostHog Signals agent (Claude sandbox). Read-only analytics + signalscoutinternal:write (scratchpad) + signalscoutreport:write (report channel), plus the…

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…

Example prompts

  • “s configured insight alerts. Reads each alert”
  • “Use the signals-scout-insight-alerts skill to signal scout over the project's configured insight alerts. An agent skill from PostHog/posthog”
  • “/signals-scout-insight-alerts”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): PostHog Signals agent (Claude sandbox). Read-only analytics + signal_scout_internal:write (scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (report channel), plus the alert tools (alerts-list, alert-get), insight-get, and the inbox tools in the MCP tools section.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c012c8d. 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.

  • Compatibility

    PostHog Signals agent (Claude sandbox). Read-only analytics + signal_scout_internal:write (scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (report channel), plus the alert tools (alerts-list, alert-get), insight-get, and the inbox tools in the MCP tools section.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Signals Scout Insight Alerts loads about 3.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 44 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,881 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~44
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.8k

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 1,881 words (~3,771 tokens).

“You are a focused digest-and-triage scout over the project's own configured insight alerts (the threshold and anomaly-detector alerts users set on insights). The team already decided what's worth watching when they created each alert, so your job is not to…”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
signals-scout-insight-alerts
compatibility
PostHog Signals agent (Claude sandbox). Read-only analytics + signal_scout_internal:write (scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (report channel), plus the alert tools (alerts-list, alert-get), insight-get, and the inbox tools in the MCP tools section.
scout-display-name
Insight alerts
metadata.owner_team
signals
metadata.scope
insight_alerts

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in products/signals/skills/signals-scout-insight-alerts of PostHog/posthog.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c012c8d

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 8, 2026.

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Questions about Signals Scout Insight Alerts

What does Signals Scout Insight Alerts do?

Signals scout over the project's configured insight alerts. An agent skill from PostHog/posthog. Signals Scout Insight Alerts is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Signals scout over the project's configured insight alerts.

How do I install Signals Scout Insight Alerts in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Signals Scout Insight Alerts in Codex?

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

Can I use Signals Scout Insight 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 signals-scout-insight-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/signals-scout-insight-alerts, .gemini/skills/signals-scout-insight-alerts, .github/skills/signals-scout-insight-alerts and .opencode/skills/signals-scout-insight-alerts in your project.

What does Signals Scout Insight Alerts need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Signals Scout Insight Alerts is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): PostHog Signals agent (Claude sandbox). Read-only analytics + signal_scout_internal:write (scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (report channel), plus the alert tools (alerts-list, alert-get), insight-get, and the inbox tools in the MCP tools section. .

Does Signals Scout Insight 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 Signals Scout Insight 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 Signals Scout Insight Alerts use?

Signals Scout Insight 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 Signals Scout Insight Alerts use?

About 3.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k 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 Signals Scout Insight Alerts?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Signals Scout Insight Alerts: Gke Alert Configuration (google/skills, 21k stars), Agent Platform Alert Configuration (google/skills, 21k stars), Cloud Run Alert Configuration (google/skills, 21k stars) and Google Cloud Slo Alert Configuration (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 Signals Scout Insight Alerts?

PostHog (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in PostHog/posthog, which has 40,209 GitHub stars. The repository holds 254 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 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.