payload-analytics

payload-analytics is a skill for Claude Code from textura-agency/next16-claude-starter. It costs 169 tokens per session (1,416 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A self-hosted visitor-analytics feature for a Payload CMS admin. It records consented page views in the site's own PostgreSQL database without cookies or a third-party tracking script.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps owners view visitors, page views, time on page, bounce rate, live visitors, and daily trends from the Payload admin.
Why use it?
It gives site owners traffic information while keeping analytics data with their content and avoiding unnecessary external tracking. It also respects analytics consent and do-not-track signals.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It helps owners view visitors, page views, time on page, bounce rate, live visitors, and daily trends from the Payload admin.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/textura-agency/next16-claude-starter/payload-analytics
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 textura-agency/next16-claude-starter --skill payload-analytics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/textura-agency/next16-claude-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,416 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.
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 $0.00169 $0.01416
Opus 5.5 $0.00068 $0.00566
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00142

Measured 10d ago against content hash c694410b8e1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payload-analytics 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 10d 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.

- `curl -X POST …/api/track -H 'dnt: 1' …` → `counted: false`; a bot UA → `false`;
.claude/skills/payload-analytics/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analytics in the admin

What an owner wants from "light analytics": how many people came, what they read and for how long, where from, on what — in the admin they already use. What they must not get: a third-party script on the page, a cookie, or a promise in the privacy policy the site doesn't keep. Kit: bash .claude/skills/payload-cms/scaffold.sh analytics (needs core + admin).

Decisions — and why

# Decision Why
A1 Self-hosted in the CMS's Postgres (page-views, hidden from the nav), read with plain SQL (readStats) No vendor, no script, no dependency; the data sits beside the content it describes
A2 Only with consent: the beacon fires only when consent.analytics === true The cookie banner's analytics switch must mean something — and the privacy policy promises it
A3 /api/track drops bots (UA regex incl. Lighthouse/headless/monitors), /admin + /api paths, DNT and GPC Counts people, not crawlers or the editor; honours "do not track" even with consent
A4 No personal data kept: visitor = sha256(PAYLOAD_SECRET + day + IP + UA) truncated; IP and UA never stored; no cookie of our own One person = one visitor per day, unlinkable across days. "Visitors" over a range = sum of daily visitors (what privacy-first tools call visits)
A5 Time on page = visible time, banked across visibility changes, sent once on leave (pagehide / hidden / route change), capped at 30 min, written only by the same day-hash, only once A background tab doesn't inflate it; the id can't be used to rewrite other rows. Views with no clean leave are excluded from the average, not counted as 0
A6 Country from the edge header (x-vercel-ip-country / cf-ipcountry), else the Accept-Language region flagged countryApprox and footnoted Exact on the host, honest locally
A7 Retention = the privacy policy's figure (default 14 months), swept on ~1 % of writes The policy and the database agree, with no cron
A8 Server-rendered view; the chart is one client leaf — plain SVG, no chart library, no animation; hover is a discrete state No dependency, no motion-rule exception; lists are plain HTML
A9 Countries as a code badge + English name (Intl.DisplayNames) Windows draws flag emoji as bare letters
A10 Bounce rate = visitor-days with one view; every KPI compared with the previous period, colour by better/worse (bounce inverted) The four numbers an owner asks about, with direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 10d ago First seen · 68 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A c694410b8e1f

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payload-analytics is a skill published in the GitHub repository textura-agency/next16-claude-starter (137 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 1,416 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-08.

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