# finding-deleted-feature-flags

Tracks down soft-deleted PostHog feature flags within a selected timeframe. Inspects the activity log to report who removed them and when.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 325 installs · ★ 76
- 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/finding-deleted-feature-flags/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/finding-deleted-feature-flags

## What it does

PostHog stores soft deletions as a simple boolean inside `system.feature_flags`. It lacks `deleted_at` or `updated_at` columns. Querying timestamps directly in SQL throws `Unable to resolve field`.

This skill splits the audit into two phases. First, it pulls up to 100 deleted candidates using SQL ordered by `created_at DESC`. Then it fires parallel calls to `posthog:feature-flags-activity-retrieve` for each candidate id to extract the exact `activity: deleted` event with its UTC timestamp and user details.

Soft-deleted flags get renamed to `<original>:deleted:<flag_id>`. The skill pipes the batch into `scripts/strip_deleted_suffix.py` using `python3` to extract the true key before printing the final table. Without the PostHog activity tool available to the agent, checking deletion dates will fail.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills finding-deleted-feature-flags
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/finding-deleted-feature-flags/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill finding-deleted-feature-flags -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/finding-deleted-feature-flags/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Audit feature flags soft-deleted in the past 7, 30, or 90 days
- Identify who deleted a specific flag and inspect the exact timestamp
- Reconstruct clean flag keys stripped of tombstone suffixes
- Overcome the missing `deleted_at` column in PostHog SQL tables

## Example prompts
- What feature flags got deleted in the last 7 days?
- Find out who removed the beta-dashboard flag and when
- Audit recently deleted feature flags in the active project

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: finding-deleted-feature-flags
description: 'Find feature flags that were soft-deleted in the active project within a recent time window. Use when the user asks "what flags were deleted in the last N days", "show me recently deleted feature flags", "who deleted flag X", "audit recent flag deletions", or anything similar. Handles the non-obvious gotcha that system.feature_flags exposes the deleted boolean but does not expose a deletion timestamp — the actual deleted-at time lives in the per-flag activity log and must be cross-referenced.'
---

# Finding recently deleted feature flags

This skill produces a list of feature flags that were soft-deleted in the active project within a user-specified time window, along with who deleted each one and when.

## When to use this skill

- The user asks "what flags got deleted last week / in the last N days?"
- The user wants an audit of recent flag deletions (who, when, what was removed)
- The user wants to find when a specific flag was deleted, or by whom
- Any "recently deleted feature flags" framing

Don't use this for **active** stale-flag cleanup — that's `cleaning-up-stale-feature-flags`. This skill is for flags that have already been removed.

## The gotcha that makes this non-trivial

`system.feature_flags` exposes `deleted` as a boolean but does **not** expose `deleted_at`, `updated_at`, or `last_modified_at`. There's no way to filter soft-deleted flags by deletion time in a single SQL query — trying to use those columns will return `Unable to resolve field`.

The actual deletion timestamp lives in the per-flag activity log, reachable only via `posthog:feature-flags-activity-retrieve` (one call per flag id). There is no bulk activity endpoint.

So the workflow is two-stage: SQL to enumerate candidates, then parallel activity-log lookups to find each deletion event.

## Workflow

### 1. Clarify the window if ambiguous

"Last week" is ambiguous — it can mean rolling 7 days from now, or the previous calendar week (Mon–Sun). If the user wasn't explicit, ask, or surface both interpretations in the final report.

Always compute the cutoff in UTC and keep the user's local interpretation in your head separately.

### 2. Enumerate soft-deleted flags via SQL

Query `system.feature_flags` for `deleted = true` in the active project, ordered by `created_at DESC`:

```sql
SELECT id, key, created_at
FROM system.feature_flags
WHERE team_id = <team_id> AND deleted = true
ORDER BY created_at DESC
LIMIT 100
```
````
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