creating-box-plot-insights

creating-box-plot-insights is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,034 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of creating-box-plot-insights, MIT.

A guide for creating box plots in PostHog, which show how numeric values are distributed through medians and quartiles rather than only showing an average. It supports standard product-analytics data and custom SQL queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare numeric distributions across dates or groups and to save box-plot insights from events, warehouse tables, or SQL results.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right query and avoids producing a distribution chart from data that has already been reduced to an average or total.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare numeric distributions across dates or groups and to save box-plot insights from events, warehouse tables, or SQL results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/skills/creating-box-plot-insights
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill creating-box-plot-insights
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

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creating-box-plot-insights 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.

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skills/omnibus/creating-box-plot-insights/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

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Creating box plot insights

Box plots need distribution data, not an already-aggregated average or total. Choose the simplest query type that can express the user's question.

Choose the query type

Use a standard product analytics box plot when all of these are true:

  • The source is an event, action, or warehouse table supported by Trends.
  • One numeric property contains the values to distribute.
  • The user wants the distribution over a normal time interval.

Use a SQL box plot when the user needs custom grouping, joins, derived values, or bespoke SQL. Read querying-posthog-data before writing HogQL, then use references/sql-examples.md as a starting point.

Do not use SQL only to reproduce a standard Trends query.

Standard product analytics box plot

  1. Identify the event or action and its numeric property. Confirm the property is numeric before saving.
  2. Build an InsightVizNode whose source is a TrendsQuery:
    • Set the series event or action.
    • Set math_property to the numeric property.
    • Set trendsFilter.display to BoxPlot.
    • Choose the date range and interval that match the question.
  3. Run the query with posthog:query-trends.
  4. If it returns distribution rows, save it with posthog:insight-create.
  5. Read it back with posthog:insight-get and confirm the property, interval, and display.

A box plot without a numeric math_property is invalid. Do not substitute event counts unless counts are the values the user wants to distribute.

SQL box plot

The SQL must return one pre-aggregated row for each X-axis and series pair. Calculate the summary in the database. Never calculate percentiles from the limited result rows in the client.

Required numeric roles:

  • minimum
  • 25th percentile
  • median
  • mean
  • 75th percentile
  • maximum

The easiest result shape uses these aliases:

x, series, min, p25, median, mean, p75, max

x and series are optional:

  • Set xAxisColumn to null for one overall distribution or one box per series.
  • Set seriesColumn to null for one series.

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Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 7ac646f19834

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creating-box-plot-insights is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,034 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to creating-box-plot-insights, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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