Official agent skill

Signals Scout Product Analytics

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog

Signals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Signals Scout Product Analytics

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog --skill signals-scout-product-analytics -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog signals-scout-product-analytics --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-product-analytics .claude/skills/signals-scout-product-analytics && 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-product-analytics
GitHub stars
40k
Token cost
~6.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
3,457 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
254
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Signals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths.

  • Works in 2 steps: Saved behavioral insights (seed first —… → Inferred activation flow (only when the…
  • Tasks that involve Product analytics
  • SKILL.md covers Quick close-out: is there a…, 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 Product Analytics is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Signals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths. Watches the team's saved flows for a derived-rate regression while entrants hold.

Its SKILL.md is about 6.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signalscoutinternal:write (for scratchpad) +…

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Product analytics. 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

  • Tasks that involve Product analytics

Example prompts

  • “Use the signals-scout-product-analytics skill to signal scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths”
  • “/signals-scout-product-analytics”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signal_scout_internal:write (for scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (for emit-report/edit-report, granted because this scout authors reports directly via the report channel). Assumes the signals-scout MCP family plus the product-analytics query tools listed in the body's MCP tools section (query-funnel, query-retention, query-lifecycle, query-stickiness, query-paths, query-trends, insight-get, execute-sql, read-data-schema).

Workflow steps

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

  1. Saved behavioral insights (seed first — human-blessed flows). Find them with execute-sql over system.insights: query::text ILIKE…
  2. Inferred activation flow (only when the team has few/no saved funnels — cap at ONE). From product_intents (activated_at milestones) + the…

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

    Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signal_scout_internal:write (for scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (for emit-report/edit-report, granted because this scout authors reports directly via the report channel). Assumes the signals-scout MCP family plus the product-analytics query tools listed in the body's MCP tools section (query-funnel, query-retention, query-lifecycle, query-stickiness, query-paths, query-trends, insight-get, execute-sql, read-data-schema).

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Signals Scout Product Analytics loads about 6.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 3,457 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~54
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.4k

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 3,457 words (~6,397 tokens).

“You are a focused product-analytics scout. You watch the behavioral flows this team measures — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, paths — and surface when one regresses: a conversion step that's converting worse, a retention curve that's sliding, a lifecycle mix…”

— opening of SKILL.md by PostHog, Custom licence
name
signals-scout-product-analytics
compatibility
Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signal_scout_internal:write (for scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (for emit-report/edit-report, granted because this scout authors reports directly via the report channel). Assumes the signals-scout MCP family plus the product-analytics query tools listed in the body's MCP tools section (query-funnel, query-retention, query-lifecycle, query-stickiness, query-paths, query-trends, insight-get, execute-sql, read-data-schema).
scout-display-name
Product analytics
metadata.owner_team
signals
metadata.scope
product_analytics

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in products/signals/skills/signals-scout-product-analytics 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 Product Analytics

What does Signals Scout Product Analytics do?

Signals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths. Signals Scout Product Analytics is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Signals scout for core product-analytics flows — funnels, retention, lifecycle, stickiness, and paths.

When should I use Signals Scout Product Analytics?

Signals Scout Product Analytics fits situations like: tasks that involve Product analytics.

How do I install Signals Scout Product Analytics in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Signals Scout Product Analytics in Codex?

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

Can I use Signals Scout Product Analytics 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-product-analytics -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-product-analytics, .gemini/skills/signals-scout-product-analytics, .github/skills/signals-scout-product-analytics and .opencode/skills/signals-scout-product-analytics in your project.

What does Signals Scout Product Analytics need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Signals Scout Product Analytics is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signal_scout_internal:write (for scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (for emit-report/edit-report, granted because this scout authors reports directly via the report channel). Assumes the signals-scout MCP family plus the product-analytics query tools listed in the body's MCP tools section (query-funnel, query-retention, query-lifecycle, query-stickiness, query-paths, query-trends, insight-get, execute-sql, read-data-schema). .

Does Signals Scout Product Analytics 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 Product Analytics 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 Product Analytics use?

Signals Scout Product Analytics 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 Product Analytics use?

About 6.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 26k 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 Product Analytics?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Signals Scout Product Analytics: PostHog CLI Queries (debugtheworldbot/keyStats, 1.5k stars), Retentioneering Contributing (retentioneering/retentioneering-tools, 927 stars), Retentioneering Product Analytics (retentioneering/retentioneering-tools, 927 stars) and Feature Analytics Instrumentation Planner (mistralai/mistral-vibe, 5.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Signals Scout Product Analytics?

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.