query-clickhouse-via-metabase

query-clickhouse-via-metabase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for examining ClickHouse query logs through PostHog’s internal Metabase service. ClickHouse is a database for large-scale event data, while Metabase is a tool for running and viewing database queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow queries, query cost or memory use, team-level performance, and possible materializations in the US or EU production clusters.
Why use it?
It provides the required regional access and authentication steps for investigating production query behavior without relying on unstable connection details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate slow queries, query cost or memory use, team-level performance, and possible materializations in the US or EU production clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/query-clickhouse-via-metabase
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill query-clickhouse-via-metabase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,323 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 62
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00079 $0.02323
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2c0f26664dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

query-clickhouse-via-metabase scanned grade A 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`metabase:cookie` exists for humans who want to hand-roll `curl` against
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/query-clickhouse-via-metabase/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Querying ClickHouse via Metabase

PostHog's production ClickHouse clusters are reachable for ad-hoc analysis through internal Metabase instances. Both Metabases sit behind an AWS ALB with Cognito OAuth, so authentication is SSO-gated — Metabase API keys alone won't work.

This skill is for system.query_log analysis from inside the posthog repo. For pre-built canned queries (slow query summaries, materialization analysis), see the query-performance-analysis repo, which is the source of truth for those and uses the same Metabase API surface.

Environment

Region Metabase URL
US https://metabase.prod-us.posthog.dev
EU https://metabase.prod-eu.posthog.dev

Database IDs are not stable — they change when Metabase's metadata DB is rebuilt or connections are re-added. Never hardcode an ID. Always discover the current list:

hogli metabase:databases --region us
hogli metabase:databases --region eu

Regional layout (names may vary; re-check with metabase:databases):

  • US exposes one ClickHouse database (used for query_log and data reads).
  • EU exposes two ClickHouse databases — a query tier (use for query_log analysis) and a data tier (production reads: events, persons, etc.). Pick the one whose name indicates the query tier.
  • Both Metabases also expose Postgres databases (the app DB) and, on EU, the ingestion-layer and migrations databases.

Authentication

Use hogli to get a valid cookie. It opens the system browser for SSO, captures cookies from the user's logged-in browser profile, and caches them at ~/.config/posthog/metabase/cookie-{region} (mode 0600).

# Log in once per region. --region is required (no default — you pick which one).
# Already-valid sessions are fast-pathed (no browser tab opens), so re-running
# is cheap.
hogli metabase:login --region us
hogli metabase:login --region eu

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 12d ago First seen · 234 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A f2c0f26664dc

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query-clickhouse-via-metabase is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (715 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,323 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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