diagnosing-experiment-results

diagnosing-experiment-results is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 208 tokens per session (3,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic guide for strange, biased, or empty PostHog experiment results. It covers issues such as users seeing multiple versions, uneven assignment, split-test mismatches, and misleading significance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate zero exposures, sample-ratio mismatches, fragmented identities, unexpected SQL differences, and other unusual experiment outcomes.
Why use it?
Experiment data can look convincing while being affected by setup or analysis problems. This helps separate real product results from tracking, identity, sampling, and statistical issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate zero exposures, sample-ratio mismatches, fragmented identities, unexpected SQL differences, and other unusual experiment outcomes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/diagnosing-experiment-results
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 diagnosing-experiment-results
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 208 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,197 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 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 $0.00208 $0.03197
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.01598
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00320

Measured 9d ago against content hash c5ae4b7bfe92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnosing-experiment-results 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.

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/diagnosing-experiment-results/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnosing experiment results

This skill answers: My PostHog experiment results look wrong, biased, or empty — what's going on?

Match the user's complaint in the dispatch table, then read the matching reference file for the diagnostic.

Each diagnostic in the reference files is tagged [HIGH], [MEDIUM], or [LOW] based on how strongly it's verified — [HIGH] is verified directly in PostHog code, [MEDIUM] is partially or team-source verified, [LOW] describes SDK/external behavior that wasn't verified here. Treat [LOW] items as hypotheses to test, not facts to assert.

Step 1 — Resolve the experiment

If the user refers to an experiment by name or description, load the finding-experiments skill first to resolve it to a concrete ID.

Call experiment-get and pull these fields. They are inputs for almost every diagnostic:

  • parameters.feature_flag_variants[].rollout_percentage — the variant split
  • parameters.rollout_percentage — the overall rollout (% of users entering the experiment)
  • exposure_criteria.multiple_variant_handling — defaults to "exclude" if absent
  • exposure_criteria.exposure_config.event — unset means the default exposure event; read which one from resolved_exposure_event ($feature_flag_called or $experiment_exposure — resolved server-side, same properties either way)
  • exposure_criteria.filterTestAccounts — defaults to true
  • feature_flag.active, status (draft / running / paused / exposure_frozen / stopped), start_date, end_date
  • feature_flag.filters.groups[] — for each group read variant, properties, and rollout_percentage. Any non-null variant is a forced-variant override on the matched cohort (release-condition assignment, not randomized) — surfaces A7. Watch for the severe shape (A7b): a variant-pinned group with broad/empty properties at high rollout, or no group left randomized (variant: null) / no release path to one arm — that starves the other variant (one arm gets ~0 analyzable exposures). See references/bias-and-skew.md.
  • stats_config — Bayesian (default) or Frequentist

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 202 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A c5ae4b7bfe92

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diagnosing-experiment-results is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 3,197 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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