# exploring-llm-evaluations

A skill for working with PostHog AI observability evaluations: find configs, run them against specific generations, and schedule reports.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 411 installs · ★ 75
- Author: PostHog
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/PostHog/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/omnibus/exploring-llm-evaluations/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/exploring-llm-evaluations

## What it does

The skill walks through the evaluation lifecycle in PostHog. Evaluations score `$ai_generation` events, and each one is a `hog`, `llm_judge`, or `sentiment` type. `hog` is deterministic code returning a boolean, a number, or categories. `llm_judge` scores a generation with a model against a prompt you write. `sentiment` labels the tone of user messages.

Under the hood it is a set of `posthog:llma-evaluation-*` tools: list and search configs, fetch one by UUID, create, update, soft-delete, and run against a specific event. `posthog:llma-evaluation-test-hog` dry-runs Hog source on recent generations without saving. `posthog:execute-sql` runs ad-hoc HogQL over `$ai_evaluation` events, and `posthog:query-llm-trace` drops you into the generation that was scored. Reports are scheduled with `posthog:llma-evaluation-report-create` and delivered by email or Slack.

\`llm_judge` costs a model call per run and needs AI data processing approval at the org level. `hog` avoids both, so it stays cheap and reproducible. Without a passing rule you can still read score means and distributions, but pass rates and new reports are off the table. Editing the rule reinterprets historical scores, so check what it does to runs you already have before you touch it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill exploring-llm-evaluations -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill exploring-llm-evaluations -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill exploring-llm-evaluations -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills exploring-llm-evaluations
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/exploring-llm-evaluations/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill exploring-llm-evaluations -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PostHog/skills --path skills/omnibus/exploring-llm-evaluations
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill exploring-llm-evaluations -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/PostHog/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/omnibus/exploring-llm-evaluations/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- debug why an evaluation keeps failing
- compare evaluation results across filters
- dry-run a Hog evaluator before saving it
- surface common failure modes across generations
- schedule a recurring evaluation report to Slack

## Example prompts
- list every enabled evaluation in the project with its config
- run this evaluation on that generation and explain the result
- dry-run the Hog source against recent generations

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: exploring-llm-evaluations
description: >
  Investigate AI observability evaluations — `hog` (deterministic code-based),
  `llm_judge` (LLM-prompt-based), and `sentiment` (user-message sentiment).
  Find existing evaluations, inspect their configuration, run them against
  specific generations, query individual results, and set up scheduled reports
  on an evaluation.
  Use when the user asks to debug why an evaluation is failing, surface common
  failure modes, compare results across filters, dry-run a Hog evaluator,
  prototype a new LLM-judge prompt, inspect sentiment classifications, or manage
  the evaluation lifecycle.
---

# Exploring AI observability evaluations

For stored offline experiment comparisons, scorer history, or externally computed
result uploads, use `analyzing-offline-evaluations`. Offline experiments use pinned
scorer configurations and separate result APIs from the online evaluations below.

PostHog evaluations score `$ai_generation` events. Each evaluation is one of three
types:

- **`hog`** — deterministic Hog code that returns a boolean, numeric score, or categories (and optionally N/A).
  Best for objective rule-based checks: format validation (JSON parses, schema matches),
  length limits, keyword presence/absence, regex patterns, structural assertions, latency
  thresholds, cost guards. Cheap, fast, reproducible — no LLM call per run. Prefer this
  when the criterion can be expressed as code.
- **`llm_judge`** — an LLM scores generations against a prompt you write. Best for
  subjective or fuzzy checks: tone, helpfulness, hallucination detection, off-topic
  drift, instruction-following. Costs an LLM call per run and requires AI data
  processing approval at the org level.
- **`sentiment`** — classifies sentiment from user messages on each matching
  generation. Returns a sentiment label and score, not a pass/fail verdict.

Results from all types land in ClickHouse as `$ai_evaluation` events. Boolean
evaluations (`llm_judge` and `hog`) set `$ai_evaluation_result`; sentiment
evaluations set `$ai_sentiment_*` properties instead.
Both `hog` and `llm_judge` also support `output_type: "numeric"`.
Numeric runs store their raw score in `$ai_evaluation_numeric_result`, with optional `$ai_evaluation_numeric_result_min` and `$ai_evaluation_numeric_result_max`.
They never set `$ai_evaluation_result`.
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