# feature-usage-feed

Builds an LLM-judge eval that pulls canonical use cases for a PostHog feature and streams them to Slack. Useful when trace volume is too high to read by hand.

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- 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/feature-usage-feed/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill walks through the whole path from inspecting traces to a live Slack feed. You find samples with `posthog:query-llm-traces-list` and `posthog:query-llm-trace`, then create an `llm_judge` evaluation, dry-run it and enable it. Creation and enabling go through MCP when your agent exposes the `posthog:llma-evaluation-*` tools. Often it doesn't, and you fall back to the PostHog UI for those steps. The alert destination under Data pipeline → destinations is always UI work.

There are two ways to scope the eval. Pattern A filters on the `$ai_trace_id` prefix of a standalone feature. Pattern B filters on `ai_product = 'posthog_ai'` plus `agent_mode` for features reached through a PostHog AI agent mode. Pattern B needs PR #55160 deployed, since that PR threads `agent_mode` and `supermode` onto every `$ai_generation` from the chat agent loop. One handy side effect: `agent_mode IS NOT NULL` drops batch jobs and tool-internal calls for free.

Before you start, check that the feature emits `$ai_generation` with a stable `$ai_trace_id` pattern, and that `$session_id` sits on both `$ai_generation` and `$ai_evaluation` events — it links the trace to the trigger session and ends up in the Slack link. You also need organisation-level AI data processing approval, otherwise the `llm_judge` eval can't be created. If `$session_id` is missing on either event type, fix the backend first; there is no UI workaround.

## Requirements
- Works with: Slack

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill feature-usage-feed -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill feature-usage-feed -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill feature-usage-feed -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills feature-usage-feed
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/feature-usage-feed/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill feature-usage-feed -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PostHog/skills --path skills/omnibus/feature-usage-feed
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill feature-usage-feed -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/feature-usage-feed/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out how people actually use a feature in production
- extract canonical use cases to rewrite the docs
- set up a Slack feed of representative usage examples
- filter out batch jobs and keep only real chat turns
- link a trace back to the user's session recording

## Example prompts
- Set up a usage feed for group session summaries in #team-sessions-usage
- What use cases does replay AI search cover? Build the feed with an LLM judge
- What are users trying to do in error tracking mode of PostHog AI?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: feature-usage-feed
description: >
  Set up an LLM-judge evaluation that extracts canonical use cases for a
  PostHog feature at scale and streams the results to a Slack channel as a
  live feed. Use when someone wants to understand how users are actually
  using a specific AI/LLM-powered feature in production — what they're
  investigating, what questions they're trying to answer, and what
  patterns surface — without manually reading hundreds of traces. Assumes
  the feature emits `$ai_generation` and `$ai_evaluation` events with
  `$session_id` linkage to the trigger user's recording (the standard
  setup post the session-summary linkage PRs).
---

# Building a feature usage feed via LLM evals

Some PostHog features (group session summaries, single session summaries, replay AI search, error tracking AI debug, etc.) generate hundreds or thousands of LLM traces per week. Reading them by hand is not feasible. This skill covers the end-to-end pattern for turning that trace volume into a live Slack feed of canonical use cases — what users are actually doing with the feature.

The workflow is **mixed, and leans UI**. Trace inspection and filter discovery (steps 1-2) are MCP-driven. Eval creation, dry-running, and enabling (steps 4-5) are MCP-driven _when_ `posthog:llma-evaluation-*` tools are exposed to your agent — but they often aren't, in which case fall back to the UI (Data pipeline → destinations for the alert is always UI). Each step flags its UI fallback. Expect to finish in the UI even when you start from chat.

## When to use

- "How are people actually using [feature X] in production?"
- "Can we identify the canonical use cases for [feature X] so we can write better docs / prioritize improvements?"
- "I want a Slack feed of representative usage examples without manually skimming traces."
- "Set up a feed of use cases for [feature X] in #team-[area]-usage."

If the user just wants to debug a single trace or tune an existing eval, redirect to `exploring-llm-traces` or `exploring-llm-evaluations` instead.

## Two filter patterns

This skill supports two different ways to scope an eval to "the feature you care about":
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