# managing-subscriptions

Configures recurring PostHog reports for insights and dashboards sent to Slack, Teams, or email. Handles schedules, test dispatches, and delivery troubleshooting.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 502 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/managing-subscriptions/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/managing-subscriptions

## What it does

This skill guides agents through scheduled reporting in PostHog. It handles snapshot deliveries for insights, dashboard boards, and AI reports. Messages dispatch on a fixed schedule to email addresses, Slack channels, or Microsoft Teams webhooks. Subscriptions run on clock intervals. They do not monitor metric dropoffs or alert conditions. PostHog uses product alerts for threshold tracking.

Under the hood, the skill interacts with PostHog MCP endpoints. It queries `posthog:subscriptions-list` to detect existing records and `posthog:subscriptions-create` to register new dispatches. Pausing or editing parameters runs through `posthog:subscriptions-partial-update`. Separate delivery tools handle manual tests.

Creation is not idempotent. A blind retry after a timeout creates duplicate subscriptions and sends repeated dispatches. The resource type cannot be modified once saved. Switching a report from an insight to a dashboard requires a brand new subscription.

## Requirements
- Works with: Slack

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills managing-subscriptions
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- schedule recurring PostHog dashboard snapshots to Slack or Teams
- dispatch a one-off test snapshot of a specific insight
- pause or resume report delivery using partial updates
- inspect recent delivery attempts to diagnose dispatch errors

## Example prompts
- Send a snapshot of the product metrics dashboard to our Slack analytics channel every Monday.
- Trigger a test delivery for the active revenue insight subscription and verify the status.
- Pause the weekly email delivery for this PostHog report without deleting it.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: managing-subscriptions
description: >
  Create and manage scheduled PostHog subscriptions for insight snapshots,
  dashboard snapshots, and AI prompt reports. Use when a user wants recurring
  email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams delivery; an AI summary; delivery history;
  schedule or recipient changes; a test delivery; pause, resume, or deletion;
  or help with subscription permissions, limits, billing, and failures. Use
  product alerts when delivery must depend on a threshold or anomaly.
---

# Managing subscriptions

Subscriptions deliver product data on a fixed schedule.
They support insight snapshots, dashboard snapshots, and AI prompt reports.

## Read the relevant references

- Read [subscription-types.md](references/subscription-types.md) before you select or change a resource type.
- Read [destinations.md](references/destinations.md) before you create or change a destination.
- Read [operations.md](references/operations.md) for schedules, limits, billing, delivery checks, and failures.
- Use `creating-ai-subscription` for the detailed prompt report creation workflow.

## Choose the correct product

- Use a subscription for fixed delivery, such as "send this dashboard every Monday."
- Use a product alert for a condition, such as "notify me when conversion falls below 10%."
- Use a reminder when the user wants a private prompt to inspect a resource later.
- Use a Signals scout when an agent must decide what is important to report.

Subscriptions do not evaluate thresholds, recovery, consecutive breaches, or quiet hours.
Snapshot subscriptions attempt each scheduled occurrence even when the saved results do not change.

## Tools

| Tool                                         | Purpose                                 |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `posthog:subscriptions-list`                 | Find subscriptions                      |
| `posthog:subscriptions-retrieve`             | Read one subscription                   |
| `posthog:subscriptions-create`               | Create a subscription                   |
| `posthog:subscriptions-partial-update`       | Change, pause, or resume a subscription |
| `posthog:subscriptions-test-delivery-create` | Send a test delivery                    |
| `posthog:subscriptions-deliveries-list`      | List delivery attempts                  |
| `posthog:subscriptions-deliveries-retrieve`  | Read one delivery                       |
| `posthog:subscriptions-delete`               | Stop all future deliveries              |
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