# inbox-exploration

A skill for PostHog Inbox: lists signal reports, drills into them, and turns a report into a task or PR.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 370 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/inbox-exploration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/inbox-exploration

## What it does

PostHog Inbox clusters related signals into one report — an error spike on `/checkout`, say. The `inbox-exploration` skill hands those reports to your agent: a paginated list with status and search filters, full detail for a single report, the configured signal sources, and a report's work log. Writes are there too. Claim a report, attach its PR, or move it to `resolved`, `suppressed` or `potential` — one at a time or up to 100 in a single bulk call.

The skill also starts a report's agent actions as a background run, so a suggested fix can go all the way to a merge. When you need raw signals or semantic search, it points you at the `signals` skill and HogQL queries over `document_embeddings`. For the underlying detail behind an error, a log line or a session, it reaches for PostHog MCP tools such as `query-error-tracking-issue`, `query-logs` and `query-session-recordings-list`.

Before answering anything, the skill runs a setup check. Plenty of projects have no signal sources configured, so there is nothing to show — expect an empty result rather than an error. Pausing processing is not available over MCP; you can only flip a source's `enabled` flag.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill inbox-exploration -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill inbox-exploration -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills inbox-exploration
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PostHog/skills --path skills/omnibus/inbox-exploration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill inbox-exploration -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/inbox-exploration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- see which reports have piled up in the Inbox
- filter reports by status or find one by title
- pull full detail for a report by ID
- turn a report into a PR and get it merged
- mark a report resolved, suppressed or snoozed

## Example prompts
- what's in my inbox?
- show me reports with status ready
- drill into this report ID and tell me what to do with it

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: inbox-exploration
description: >
  Explore PostHog's Inbox and act on what it surfaces — the place where signal reports cluster into
  actionable issues and trends. Use when the user asks "what's in my inbox?", "what should I look at?",
  "which reports are actionable?", "what's PostHog flagged recently?", asks about a specific report by
  ID or title, wants to act on / fix / implement a report (turn it into a PR), wants to resolve,
  dismiss, or snooze a report, or wants to see which signal sources are configured. Covers listing, filtering,
  drilling into, and acting on reports, plus pointers to the deeper `signals` skill when raw signals
  or semantic search are needed.
---

# Exploring the Inbox

The **Inbox** is where PostHog surfaces signal reports — clusters of related observations
(signals) that have been aggregated into a single issue or trend (e.g. "Error rate spiked 3× on
/checkout"). Reports come from multiple source products: error tracking, session replay, web
analytics, experiments, and integrations like Linear, GitHub, and Zendesk.

Inbox is part of [PostHog Desktop](https://posthog.com/desktop), PostHog's agentic surface for
engineering teams.

Don't assume the user's project has reports, or that any signal sources are configured — plenty
of projects don't have Inbox set up. Always run the setup-check workflow below before answering
the user's actual question.

## When to use this skill

- "What's in my inbox?" / "What should I look at first?"
- "Show me actionable reports" / "What's PostHog flagged recently?"
- "Are there any reports about <topic / product area>?"
- "What signal sources are configured for this project?"
- The user pastes a report ID or URL and wants context
- "Fix this inbox item" / "turn this report into a PR" / "implement this report" — see
  _Workflow: act on an actionable report_
- "Dismiss this" / "snooze this report" / "mark this resolved" / "I've fixed this" — see
  _Workflow: resolve, dismiss, or snooze a report_
- "Get this merged" / "run the suggested prompt on this report" — see
  _Workflow: run an action on a report_

For deeper investigation, hand off to other skills and tools:

- **`signals` skill** — query `document_embeddings` via HogQL for raw signal text, semantic
  search across signals, or to inspect every signal that contributed to a report.
- **PostHog's product-specific MCP tools** — when a report points at a specific error, log line,
  session, person, or time range, reach for the matching domain tool to pull richer context:
  - Error tracking: `query-error-tracking-issues-list`, `query-error-tracking-issue`,
    `query-error-tracking-issue-events` for error-tracking-sourced reports
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