Implement and extend PostHog Data warehouse import sources. Use when adding a new source under products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources, adding datasets/endpoints to an existing source, or adding incremental sync, resumable imports, webhook ingestion, pagination, credentials validation, and source tests.
Use when editing, reviewing, or auditing DRF viewsets and serializers in PostHog. Triggers on files in posthog/api/, products/*/backend/api/, products/*/backend/presentation/, or any file importing rest_framework. Covers field typing, schema annotations, enum collision fixes, and OpenAPI spec quality — everything that flows downstream into generated TypeScript types and MCP tools.
Run an improve-my-MCP campaign: an autoresearch-style loop that measures the MCP agent experience with the eval harness, picks the highest-impact tool problem from production data, makes one bounded fix, and keeps it only if before/after scores improve. Use when asked to "improve my MCP", run an MCP improvement campaign, fix tool discoverability or descriptions based on evidence, or prepare an eval-backed PR for a tool change. Every shipped change must carry eval evidence; guardrails below are hard rules.
Ingestion pipeline architecture overview and convention reference. Use when you need a quick orientation to the pipeline framework or want to know which doctor agent to use for a specific concern.
How to instrument PostHog's own Metrics product from PostHog-owned code — record counters, gauges, and histograms that land in posthog.metrics, the same way customers do. Use when adding application metrics in this monorepo (web, Celery, Temporal), when asked to push or ship metrics into posthog metrics, or when unsure whether the SDK in this environment supports posthog.metrics yet. Covers the environment decision (SDK-first per the public docs, OTel fallback when the SDK path is not available), the exact version gates per SDK, what is already wired internally, and how to validate metrics actually arrive.
Wire a PostHog product surface into the PostHog AI agent from the frontend. Use when attaching scene or entity context, injecting instructions to steer the agent, reacting to the agent calling a tool, applying an agent edit back into an open form, or rendering a product tool card in a thread.
Plan and execute product isolation migrations to a facade plus contract layer in PostHog, following the Visual review architecture. Use when a product still exposes internals (models/logic/views) across boundaries and needs migration toward contracts.py + facade/api.py + presentation separation, with a PR strategy that minimizes review latency and conflicts with parallel work.
Maintains existing pytest and Django test suites without weakening correctness. Use when asked to reduce Python test runtime or CI work, investigate slow pytest families, remove stale migration tests, consolidate repeated setup, improve Python test ownership, or measure whether a test optimization worked after merge. Ranks work by measured cost, applies the writing-tests value gate to existing coverage, preserves distinct behavior cases, validates isolation after shared-fixture changes, and separates testcase work from pytest-suite wall time. For an intermittent failure, use fixing-flaky-tests instead.
Guides PostHog engineers through dashboard widget platform work — ship a new widget_type (WIDGET_REGISTRY, catalog, run_widgets, WidgetCard) or update a shipped type (config, query, layout, RBAC, tile filter bar, list footer, titleHref, throttles). Use for WidgetSpec, widget_specs/, widget-configs.zod.ts, hogli build:openapi, error_tracking_list, session_replay_list, widgetFilters, formatWidgetListCountFooter, widget_query_throttle, or WidgetCard composition. New types need widget-intake confirmation first. Not for MCP batch-add of existing types or adding tiles to a dashboard.
Guides PostHog engineers through dashboard platform and scene changes. Use when changing Dashboard, DashboardTile, dashboardLogic, dashboard layouts, dashboard sharing or embeds, public dashboards, templates, filters, variables, refresh behavior, tile loading, dashboard lists, or dashboard permissions. Covers normal, shared, embedded, export, product-embedded, and template surfaces; RBAC; cache and query behavior; responsive layouts; and large or small dashboards. Use manage-dashboard-widgets instead for a widget_type or WidgetCard change.
Creates and updates GitHub Actions secrets for PostHog workflows. Use when adding a new CI secret, rotating an existing secret, wiring a workflow to an API token, package registry credential, deploy key, or any value referenced via `${{ secrets.* }}` in `.github/workflows/`.
Merge a PR into `master` through the Trunk merge queue and babysit it until it lands. Enqueue with a `/trunk merge` comment, then watch `trunk merge status` and the PR state until it is MERGED or the queue kicks it out, reporting Trunk's own reason for the terminal transition. Use when asked to merge a PR, "merge when ready", "land it", "ship it", to merge a whole stack (comment on the top PR — the queue merges it and every layer below atomically), to get a PR approved by stamphog (MCP review request first, `stamphog` label as the fallback), or to babysit/watch a PR through the queue. Never use `gh pr merge` in this repo — the queue is the only path into master.
Migrates an LLM caller from services/llm-gateway to PostHog/ai-gateway. Use when adding a gateway caller, converting an existing Python gateway integration, adopting shared Go-capable client builders, changing gateway URLs or headers for a caller, or removing a Python fallback. Inventories the caller's contract, checks the parity record, implements the supported migration, updates tests, and stops with a documented blocker when Go parity is missing.
Guides safe changes to the TaxonomicFilter, PostHog's picker for events, actions, properties, cohorts, and more. Use when adding features, fixing bugs, improving search or loading performance, or refactoring the classic picker, rebuild menu, or headless filter panel. Covers real selection behavior, two live surfaces, shared telemetry, the conditional Postgres search plan, and result reveal rules.
Guide for using the Grafana MCP to monitor and diagnose the capture service (rust/capture) in production. Use when investigating latency, event loss, Kafka backpressure, Redis issues, rate limiting, Envoy proxy issues, or any capture health question. Covers prod-us and prod-eu environments.
Guide for using the Grafana MCP to monitor and diagnose the Node.js ingestion pipeline workers in production. Use when investigating event lag, drops, pipeline errors, person/group processing, Kafka consumer health, Redis, Postgres, ClickHouse downstream health, or any ingestion worker question. Covers prod-us and prod-eu environments.
File layout for the conversations product. Use when adding, moving, renaming, or reviewing files under products/conversations/ — especially frontend components, scenes, helpers, and tests. Conversations React components live in their own folder under products/conversations/frontend/components/, never as loose files in components/ or at the frontend root. Expand this skill as more conversations layout rules land.
Decide which tree a frontend file belongs in — `products/<name>/frontend/` or `frontend/src/scenes/<name>/` — and explain why the boundary is real rather than stylistic. Use when adding a new scene, component, or logic file for a product; when creating a new directory under `frontend/src/scenes/`; when a product has UI in both trees and you need to know which side to extend; or when moving a scene into its product. Covers the merge-queue lane cost of the split, the measurement showing a dependency graph cannot substitute for the path signal, and a report script that shows how far each product's move has gone.
Scopes work to the desktop app at products/desktop — a nested standalone pnpm/turbo/Biome workspace imported from the now-archived PostHog/code repo, with posthog/posthog the only source of truth for PRs, CI and publishing, and not part of the root frontend or Django build. Use when the user says /posthog-desktop, or works on the Electron desktop app, apps/code, apps/web, apps/mobile, packages/core, packages/ui, packages/workspace-server, @posthog/api-client, @posthog/agent, or the agent framework. Pins the working directory to products/desktop, swaps in that tree's toolchain and conventions in place of the monorepo's, and defines the few paths outside the tree that may be touched (Django APIs the app calls, desktop-* CI at the root).
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