posthog_query

A guide for turning plain-language product or analytics questions into PostHog queries. PostHog is a tool that records how people use a product, including actions such as sign-ups or purchases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate counts over time, where users leave a sequence of steps, or whether users return after a first action.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right analysis—trends, funnels, or retention—and connect the question to real events instead of assuming that event names or user data exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tarekkharsa/agentstack/query
Any agent
npx skills add Tarekkharsa/agentstack --skill query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tarekkharsa/agentstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 573 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.00573
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured yesterday against content hash aeb4e91b86ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

posthog_query 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.

crates/cli/catalog/skills/posthog/query/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PostHog Query

Unofficial, agentstack-authored. Not affiliated with or endorsed by PostHog.

Use this skill when someone asks a product question in plain language ("are people dropping off at checkout?", "is the new onboarding sticking?") and you need to translate it into a concrete PostHog insight rather than guessing.

Workflow

  1. Restate the question as a measurable outcome. Pin down the metric (count, unique users, conversion rate, retention), the population (all users, a cohort, a single platform), and the time window before touching any tool.
  2. Pick the right insight type for the shape of the question:
    • Trends — "how many / how often" over time, with optional breakdowns.
    • Funnels — "where do people drop off" across an ordered sequence of steps.
    • Retention — "do people come back" after a first action.
    • Paths — "what do people actually do" when the journey is unknown.
  3. Map the question to real events and properties. List the project's events first (do not assume signup exists) and choose the closest match. Prefer unique-user math over raw event counts unless volume is the point.
  4. Set an explicit date range and interval. Default to a window that captures at least one full cycle of the behavior (e.g. 30 days for weekly habits); never leave it implicit.
  5. Add breakdowns or a cohort filter only when they answer the question. One clear breakdown beats three noisy ones.
  6. Sanity-check the result: does the denominator make sense, is the funnel order correct, are bot or internal users excluded? State caveats with the answer.

Conventions

  • Confirm the target event names against the project before building — a query on the wrong event is worse than no query.
  • Funnel steps must be in the order users actually experience them; a misordered step silently reports near-zero conversion.
  • Report the date range, population, and any filters alongside every number so the result is reproducible.
  • Prefer saving reusable questions as named insights on a dashboard over one-off ad hoc queries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A aeb4e91b86ee

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posthog_query is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tarekkharsa/agentstack (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 573 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 2026-08-31.