posthog-foss: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports/SKILL.md

generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 142 tokens per session (4,409 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for investigating slow or expensive queries in ClickHouse, a database used for large amounts of event data. It produces structured performance reports for PostHog production systems in the US and EU.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze recent slow queries, compare query costs by team, investigate regressions, and find queries that may benefit from materialized data.
Why use it?
It helps identify queries that use too much time or memory, fail with timeouts or out-of-memory errors, or cause rising cluster costs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is PostHog/posthog-foss's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on posthog-foss itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything posthog-foss configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to PostHog/posthog-foss. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PostHog/posthog-foss/master/.agents/skills/generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,409 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: 6 findings, 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 51
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 51
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 54
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 58
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 59
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 61
    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 $0.00142 $0.04409
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.02204
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00882
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00441

Measured yesterday against content hash 6f844417b491, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generating ClickHouse query performance reports

This skill is the methodology for investigating slow ClickHouse queries and writing up a performance report. It pairs with querying-production-databases-via-metabase, which is the mechanism (SSO-gated auth and hogli metabase:query). Run every query in this skill through that one.

Reports themselves are not public. When it exists, the private PostHog/query-performance-analysis repo holds the historical reports and example query IDs; this repo holds only the tooling and methodology. That repo is usually checked out as a sibling folder to the posthog checkout (e.g. ../query-performance-analysis relative to the repo root, or alongside it under the same parent directory). Look for a sibling directory named query-performance-analysis containing an analysis/ folder of dated reports. If you find it, add the new report there as a new markdown file under analysis/, named <YYYY-MM-DD>-<topic>.md (match the existing naming, e.g. 2026-05-27-slow-queries-14d.md).

The sibling repo may not exist, and that is fine. If you cannot find it, do not write into the public posthog repo and do not block on it: write the report to a temp folder instead (e.g. /tmp/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<topic>.md), tell the user where you put it, and skip the previous-report comparison in step 9 (there is no history to diff against).

Data source: posthog.query_log_archive (not system.query_log)

system.query_log on the production clusters retains only a few hours, so it cannot answer a multi-day question. Use the Distributed archive table instead:

FROM posthog.query_log_archive

It retains roughly three weeks and exposes log_comment as typed columns, so you skip JSONExtract. Query it directly (it already fans out across the cluster). Always filter is_initial_query so distributed sub-queries are not double-counted. Confirm current retention with a per-day count() before trusting a window (see references/query-patterns.md).

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday Changed · +3 tokens per session 6f844417b491
  2. 9d ago First seen · 254 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 1ad662d6e88d

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generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (714 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 4,409 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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