modeling-dimension-tables

modeling-dimension-tables is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 213 tokens per session (1,198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building dimension tables: short lookup tables that add descriptions such as country, region, timezone, currency, plan, or product to event and revenue data. In a star schema, these tables are joined to larger fact tables for filtering and grouping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to source, clean, deduplicate, and save lookup tables in PostHog or dbt.
Why use it?
It prevents every analysis from recreating the same lookups. Reusable dimensions keep labels and groupings consistent across models and dashboards.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to source, clean, deduplicate, and save lookup tables in PostHog or dbt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/modeling-dimension-tables
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,198 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 $0.00213 $0.01198
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.00599
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00120

Measured 7d ago against content hash dae4a7565330, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modeling-dimension-tables 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 7d 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/data_modeling/skills/modeling-dimension-tables/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Modeling dimension tables (star schema)

Dimensions are the descriptive tables (dim_country, dim_plan, dim_date) that fact tables join to for slicing. This skill builds them once, cleanly, so every other model reuses them instead of re-deriving lookups. Read modeling-warehouse-foundations first (joins + convertCurrency() live there). Catalog of common dimensions: references/dimension-catalog.md; recipes in references/posthog/ and references/dbt/.

Star schema in one screen

Facts (events, charges, revenue items) are long, keyed, and additive. Dimensions are short, one row per entity, descriptive. You model a dimension in three moves:

  1. Source it — where does the dimension data come from?
    • Upload / seed a lookup (country→region, plan→tier) as a CSV (warehouse source or dbt seed).
    • Sync it from a system of record (your app DB, Stripe products) as a warehouse source.
    • Derive it from events (distinct countries seen, a plan property observed per person).
  2. Shape it — an aliased SELECT with clean column names, one row per entity (dedupe hard). Save as a view; materialize it on a slow sync_frequency (7day/30day) since dimensions change rarely and are read constantly.
  3. Attach it — a saved join (dimension → a fact table) or person join (dimension → persons) so its columns appear as native fields in any query, filter, or breakdown. See foundations joins-and-dimensions.md.

Currency is already a managed dimension — don't build it

PostHog ships exchange rates behind convertCurrency(from, to, amount, timestamp?) (Open Exchange Rates, historical-rate-correct). Use it directly for any money conversion. Only build a currency dimension yourself in dbt (which has no equivalent), or if you need a rate provider PostHog doesn't offer.

Rules before you model

  1. One row per entity, unique key. A dimension with duplicate keys silently fan-outs every fact it joins. Test uniqueness (PostHog: verify in the shaping query; dbt: unique + not_null).
  2. Alias to clean, stable namescountry_code, region, plan_tier. These names become the join surface everything else depends on.
  3. Materialize static dimensions on a slow schedule; don't leave a constantly-read lookup virtual.
  4. Register and certify. Annotate the dimension and, if it's load-bearing, certify it in the catalog (foundations governance.md) so other models discover it and don't build a rival copy.
  5. Prefer built-in currency (convertCurrency) over a hand-rolled FX table on PostHog.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago First seen · 80 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A dae4a7565330

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modeling-dimension-tables is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 1,198 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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