Creating online evaluations Agent Skill

Author continuously-running online evaluations in PostHog AI observability, grounded in real failure modes you've identified.

Context cost
10.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
2 files · 41.0 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Author continuously-running online evaluations in PostHog AI observability, grounded in real failure modes you've identified. Use when the user wants evaluations that automatically score new generations or whole traces going forward — "create an eval to catch X", "continuously check that responses do Y", "turn these failures into evals". Covers letting the explored data decide how many evals to create, proposing that set for the user to pick, choosing the target and eval type (hog / llm_judge / sentiment), configuring a provider and model for an llm_judge eval (a provider key gates enabling…

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md26.8 kB · preview
--- name: creating-online-evaluations ---
16# Creating online evaluations
17
18An **online evaluation** automatically scores either each matching $ai_generation or the whole trace
19containing it, until disabled. A good eval comes from a real failure mode you've found in production traffic,
20not from a guess or a generic metric like "hallucination" or "helpfulness". This skill starts once those
21failure modes are identified and turns them into scoped, continuously-running evals.
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23**One eval per failure mode, and as many evals as the data justifies.** How many to create is a judgment
24call you make from what the traces actually showed — sometimes one, often three or four. Never assume the
25answer is one, and never bundle several modes into one evaluator.
26
27**Propose before you create.** Bring the user a short list of candidate evals and let them pick which ones
28they want (Phase 1.1). Creating evals they didn't ask for costs them money and noise.
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30**First, know what you're evaluating.** Finding and ranking the failure modes worth catching is a
31separate job. If the user doesn't specify what they want to evaluate, ask them. If they are still vague
32about it and don't refer to a specific failure mode, run exploring-ai-failures to scope a use case,
33find failing traces, and produce a ranked list of failure modes.
34
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md3,884 words
Files2
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈270
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
9,980
on trigger
The instruction body and 1 supporting file, read only when the skill fires.
5.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 51% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

10.3k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

2 files, 41.0 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md26.8 kB
  • references/evaluation-payload.md14.2 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 2 files you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Creating online evaluations · 10.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/creating-online-evaluations/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/creating-online-evaluations" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations ] || { mv .claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/creating-online-evaluations" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add posthog/creating-online-evaluations

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/creating-online-evaluations/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/creating-online-evaluations" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/creating-online-evaluations" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/creating-online-evaluations/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
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Referenceposthog/creating-online-evaluations

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