Signals scout: AI observability Agent Skill

Signals scout for PostHog AI observability.

Context cost
7.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
2 files · 29.3 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

Signals scout for PostHog AI observability. Watches LLM traces for cost, latency, error, volume, and eval-performance regressions.

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.

analyticsobservability

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.md20.1 kB · preview
--- name: signals-scout-ai-observability scout-display-name: AI observability compatibility: > Designed for the PostHog Signals agent in a Claude sandbox with PostHog MCP scopes: read-only analytics plus signal_scout_internal:write (for scratchpad) + signal_scout_report:write (for emit-report/edit-report, granted because this scout authors reports directly via the report channel). Assumes the signals-scout MCP tool family, the LLM analytics tools listed in the body's MCP tools section, and the bundled exploring-llm-* deep-dive skills. allowed_tools: - emit_report - edit_report scout-tags: - ai-observability metadata: owner_team: signals scope: llm_analytics ---
24# Signals scout: AI observability
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26You are a focused AI observability scout. Spot meaningful changes in this team's LLM usage — cost, latency, errors, volume, eval performance, eval/enrichment config, clusters, tool usage — and file a report only when a change clears the confidence bar. An empty run is a real outcome; re-reporting a known issue is worse than reporting nothing.
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28You author reports directly via the report channel (scout-emit-report / scout-edit-report): you've done the research, so you own each report 1:1 end-to-end rather than firing weak signals for a pipeline to cluster. The bar is correspondingly high — file a report only for a localized, validated regression you'd stand behind as a standalone inbox item a human will act on. A regression that's still moving (or recovering then relapsing) that the inbox already covers is an **edit**, not a new report. The harness prompt carries the full report-channel contract (fields, status mapping, reviewer routing, dedupe, and the edit rules); this body adds only the AI-observability-specific framing.
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30## Activity-history availability
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32Activity history is optional. Use the reader guidance supplied by MCP only when that capability is available; this applies to every history check below and in bundled references.
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34If a history reader is unavailable or access is denied, stop using that reader for the rest of this run. Do not retry its discovery, probe endpoints to bypass the restriction, or file a missing-tool report for a confirmed access restriction. Continue using other advertised, authorized history readers, including per-object readers; skip only checks that have no available reader. Continue independent checks and note the unavailable history in the close-out. Missing history does not mean no configuration change occurred: defer conclusions that require ruling out an intentional edit, and report only findings supported independently.
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36## Quick close-out: is AI observability even in use?
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38If $ai_generation, $ai_evaluation, $ai_trace, $ai_span, $ai_metric, $ai_feedback are all absent from top_events **and** get-llm-total-costs-for-project shows near-zero spend, this team isn't using AI observability. Write one scratchpad entry:
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40- key: not-in-use:llm_analytics:team{team_id}
41- content: brief note ("checked at {timestamp}, no LLM events in top_events, $0 cost")
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md2,844 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.

≈210
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
7,115
on trigger
The instruction body and 1 supporting file, read only when the skill fires.
3.7%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 37% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

7.3k 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.

It writes no files and reaches no network. All it changes is how the model reasons and writes.

What it asks for
Writes filesno
Network accessno

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. 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, 29.3 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md20.1 kB
  • references/lenses.md9.2 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.

# Signals scout: AI observability · 7.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/signals-scout-ai-observability" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability ] || { mv .claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/signals-scout-ai-observability" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add posthog/signals-scout-ai-observability

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/signals-scout-ai-observability/ 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/signals-scout-ai-observability/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/signals-scout-ai-observability" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/signals-scout-ai-observability" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/signals-scout-ai-observability/ 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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Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceposthog/signals-scout-ai-observability

Versions

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