debugging-experiments

debugging-experiments is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 209 tokens per session (4,934 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A support guide for diagnosing PostHog Experiments, which are A/B tests that compare versions of a product using user exposure and result data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate experiment support tickets, find the cause in a customer's data, and explain the fix in plain language.
Why use it?
It helps explain uneven or missing experiment exposures by checking configuration and data collection rather than assuming the statistics are wrong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps investigate experiment support tickets, find the cause in a customer's data, and explain the fix in plain language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/debugging-experiments
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill debugging-experiments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,934 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 217
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00209 $0.04934
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.02467
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00987
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00493

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7dfac1f23eae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-experiments scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/srm_check.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

products/experiments/skills/debugging-experiments/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging experiments

PostHog Experiments are A/B tests: a feature flag randomizes users into variants, the SDK records an exposure when the flag is read, and PostHog computes per-variant metrics and significance. A customer looks at that results page and asks why it looks wrong.

Most experiment-results tickets are config or exposure-collection problems, not statistics bugs. The randomization is fine; something upstream is skewing which users get exposed, or stopping exposures from being recorded. The job is to find which, prove it with the customer's own data, and hand back a plain-language explanation plus the fix.

This skill is the customer-support front door. It carries the two most common complaints inline (uneven exposures, missing exposures) and loads diagnosing-experiment-results as a diagnostic library for the deeper long tail (interpretation traps, numbers-vs-SQL, mid-run surprises).

Debugging workflow

  1. Parse the ticket. Extract project ID, instance (US vs EU — the URLs and data live in different places), experiment ID or name, the lib/platform if relevant, the exact complaint in the customer's words, and what they already tried. Aged or multi-reply tickets are dirty: the config may have been edited mid-thread, so re-pull current state and treat earlier claims as stale.
  2. Resolve the experiment. If the ticket names it rather than giving an ID, load finding-experiments to resolve it, then call posthog:experiment-get.
  3. Pull the data read-only. Run the fixed data-pull sequence in references/pulling-the-data.md. This produces the "pertinent numbers" you will show the customer: per-variant exposed-person counts, $multiple share, the distinct_id/person fragmentation ratio, the SRM chi-squared result, the exposure trajectory, and the flag/experiment activity log. Verify from data before asking the customer anything.
  4. Match the complaint to the known-cause catalog below. Confirm the single leading cause with one targeted number from step 3 before writing. Treat the customer's own conclusion ("it's just noise", "a measurement bug") as a hypothesis to disconfirm, not confirm — pull the data independently rather than re-deriving their answer. Quantify a suspected cause before asserting its impact (count the contaminating cohort, don't eyeball it). One trap in particular: never run the SRM chi-square against an assumed even split — read the configured rollout_percentage first, since an intended 34/33/33 reads as a ~2% SRM under an equal-split assumption.
  5. Scope the fix to the experiment's state before recommending it. On a draft, config changes are free — recommend freely. On a running experiment every change has a mid-run tradeoff (changing the split is an anti-pattern — prefer reset or end+restart; see configuring-experiment-rollout and managing-experiment-lifecycle). On a stopped/shipped experiment the flag and results are the documented outcome, so recommend interpretation or a next experiment, not a mid-run edit. Don't propose reversing a state change unless the customer asks how to undo it.
  6. Write the reply using references/customer-reply.md: cause → fix → the numbers that prove it, in the customer's UI language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 287 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 7dfac1f23eae

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debugging-experiments is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 4,934 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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