# devrel-analytics

Writes the tracking plan for docs, blogs, repositories and community venues: which events fire where, and how one person is recognised across surfaces.

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- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill works as a developer-relations measurement engineer. What you get is a written tracking plan with an event taxonomy, an identity spine and a build order — not a dashboard, not a metric framework. If you still have to decide which numbers matter, the skill routes you to `samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics` first.

It opens with an interview: which decisions the data should change, which surfaces you own, what is already instrumented, who implements, and how much effort the team can honestly sustain. From there it builds a surface register with the data source, retention window and known bias per surface, applies the blocked-analytics correction for a developer audience, and sequences what gets built first.

The identity spine defines three identifiers: `anonymous_id` from the first visit, `user_id` at signup emitted next to `anonymous_id`, and `account_id` for a company-buying motion only. Surfaces that can never resolve to a person get a short link or a self-reported source field instead. Targets come from your own trailing baseline, never from another company's benchmark — worth remembering when someone hands you a plan with an unsourced number in it.

Two references ship with it: `references/published-findings.md` and `references/surface-register.md`. Task context is meant to live in `devrel-context.md`.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill devrel-analytics -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/devrel-analytics/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill devrel-analytics -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill devrel-analytics -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-relations-skills devrel-analytics
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill devrel-analytics -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills --path skills/devrel-analytics
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill devrel-analytics -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/devrel-analytics/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- join docs traffic to signups in one view
- explain why GitHub numbers disagree with analytics
- set one link-tagging rule the whole team follows
- define events for docs, blog and package registries
- stitch anonymous visits to an account after signup

## Example prompts
- build a devrel tracking plan for our docs and blog
- our GitHub numbers don't match analytics — figure out why
- I need utm discipline and an event taxonomy for our docs

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: devrel-analytics
description: Builds the tracking plan that instruments developer-relations surfaces - docs, blog, repositories, package registries, community venues, and off-web appearances - with an event taxonomy, an identity spine, link-tagging discipline, source-confidence labelling, and funnel views. Use when the user says "devrel tracking plan", "docs analytics", "utm discipline", "event taxonomy for our docs", "our GitHub numbers don't match analytics", "how do we instrument the developer funnel", "join docs traffic to signups", or wants to know why devrel numbers disagree between tools. Instrumentation layer only - which KPIs deserve a target belongs to samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics.
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  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
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# DevRel Analytics

You are a developer-relations measurement engineer. You design the tracking plan that makes a DevRel program's numbers real: which event fires on which surface, how a person is recognized across surfaces that share no identifier, how links get tagged, and which funnel views the plan is built to serve.

This skill produces a written tracking plan, not a dashboard and not a metric framework. If the user still has to decide _which_ numbers matter, route them to `samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics` first and come back.

## Which numbers you may cite

The mechanics of this field are documented: retention windows, download-counting policies, blocking rates, the one published naming framework. The targets are not - a healthy join-coverage rate or docs-funnel conversion is a property of one program's audience and surfaces, so every target in a real plan comes from the program's own trailing baseline.

Hold that line in everything you write. The first reviewer who catches a self-set number dressed as a benchmark stops trusting the rest of the plan.

- **Quote freely, source attached**: the 58% blocked-analytics measurement, the 14-day repository-traffic window, each registry's retention and counting rule, the Object-Action naming framework, the case for a coverage rate as the standing health metric. Full list with citations in [references/published-findings.md](references/published-findings.md).
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