ga4-limitations

ga4-limitations is a skill for Claude Code from surendranb/google-analytics-mcp. It costs 37 tokens per session (608 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to the limits of the Google Analytics 4 Data API, which provides aggregated website and app usage data. It explains which analyses require the GA4 interface or a BigQuery data export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning funnel, cohort, path, real-time, segment-overlap, or event-level analysis in GA4.
Why use it?
It helps prevent attempts to obtain data the API does not expose, such as individual user journeys or raw events.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the google-analytics-mcp plugin — 16 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning funnel, cohort, path, real-time, segment-overlap, or event-level analysis in GA4.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surendranb/google-analytics-mcp/ga4-limitations
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 surendranb/google-analytics-mcp --skill ga4-limitations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surendranb/google-analytics-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-analytics-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 608 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 $0.00037 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash e5ed4ba5bd07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ga4-limitations 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.

skills/ga4-limitations/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GA4 API Limitations

What this MCP cannot do via the GA4 Data API, and where to go instead. Attempting these will either fail or produce meaningless aggregate data.

Not available via this MCP

Analysis type Why not available Where to do it instead
Funnel analysis (drop-off by step) runFunnelReport exists in the API but is not exposed by this MCP GA4 UI → Explore → Funnel Exploration
Cohort retention (week N return rate) runCohortReport not exposed GA4 UI → Explore → Cohort Exploration
User path / flow analysis Not available in aggregate API GA4 UI → Explore → Path Exploration
Per-user event sequences API returns aggregate rows only — no individual user journeys BigQuery export (raw events)
Real-time custom breakdowns Realtime API is limited to last 30 minutes, basic dimensions GA4 UI → Realtime report
Raw event-level data Data API aggregates; no row-level access BigQuery export
Segment overlap / Venn analysis Not a native API feature BigQuery or GA4 Explore comparisons
Custom channel group definitions Read-only via API; custom groups must be created in UI GA4 UI → Admin → Custom Channel Groups

What IS available (and often underused)

  • Period-over-period in one call: pass two date_ranges — GA4 returns both periods in a single response (use date_range_start/date_range_end for each; call twice if two-range isn't supported)
  • Ecommerce metrics: full purchase funnel metrics (itemsViewed, itemsAddedToCart, itemsPurchased, purchaseRevenue, cartToViewRate) — aggregate only, not per-session funnel
  • Search Console integration: available as a linked report in GA4 UI but the Search Console data is on a separate API — not queryable via this MCP (use Google Search Console API directly)
  • Custom dimensions and metrics: available if defined in the property — they appear in the schema alongside standard fields
  • Attribution modeling comparisons: not directly queryable — data-driven vs last-click is set at the property level, not a query-time parameter

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A e5ed4ba5bd07

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ga4-limitations is a skill published in the GitHub repository surendranb/google-analytics-mcp (241 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 608 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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