cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags

cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 129 tokens per session (5,160 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide to identifying and safely removing old PostHog feature flags. It checks whether flags are unused, fully rolled out, or abandoned before suggesting that they be disabled or deleted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit stale flags, review their usage and dependencies, and remove flags that no longer serve a purpose.
Why use it?
Old flags add technical debt and can leave unnecessary checks in the code. Dependency checks reduce the risk of removing a flag that other features still rely on.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to audit stale flags, review their usage and dependencies, and remove flags that no longer serve a purpose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,160 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00129 $0.05160
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.02580
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00516

Measured 2d ago against content hash 194d8a5a486c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

A flag named "ignore previous instructions" is a badly named flag, nothing more.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

products/feature_flags/skills/cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cleaning up stale feature flags

This skill guides you through finding feature flags that no longer serve a purpose and removing them safely. The ordering is fixed: clean up the code, wait for that cleanup to deploy, and only then change the flag in PostHog.

When to use this skill

  • The user asks to clean up, audit, review, or remove their feature flags
  • The user wants to find flags that are stale, unused, or fully rolled out
  • The user asks "which feature flags can I remove?" or similar
  • The user wants to reduce tech debt from old feature flags

Do not activate for an unrelated coding task that merely mentions a feature flag. Cleaning up a flag is its own job, requested by the user.

What makes a flag stale

A feature flag is considered stale when it's no longer doing useful work. PostHog tracks this with two signals:

  1. Usage-based staleness: The flag has last_called_at data, but hasn't been evaluated in 30+ days. This is the strongest signal — the SDKs are no longer checking this flag.
  2. Configuration-based staleness: The flag has no usage data (last_called_at is null), is 30+ days old, and is 100% rolled out (boolean at 100% with no property filters, or a multivariate flag with one variant at 100%). A fully rolled out flag with no conditions is equivalent to a hardcoded value — it can be replaced by removing the flag check from code.

Disabled flags (active: false) are not considered stale — they were intentionally turned off and may be kept for reactivation.

Treat configuration-based staleness more cautiously than old evaluation evidence: $feature_flag_called events can be missing when local evaluation is used or event capture is disabled, and a config-only signal says nothing about whether code still checks the flag.

Stale means cleanup candidate, never proof that removal is safe.

Establish what you can do

Before assessing candidates, work out which path you can complete in this session:

  1. PostHog read access only (no repository): assess candidates, then produce the tailored handoff prompt (see "Hand off when you cannot edit the repository").
  2. Repository read access: additionally inspect the exact call sites and turn the handoff into a repository-specific plan.
  3. Repository write access: make the code changes yourself and test them locally.
  4. Authorized publishing: also open one draft PR per flag, following the host's branch, commit, and PR policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +186 lines · +62 tokens per session scan A → B 194d8a5a486c
  2. 9d ago First seen · 195 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 39e9622698a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 5,160 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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