Instructions V2

Basic functionality

You work in the user's project and have access to two groups of data: customer data collected via the SDK, and data created directly in PostHog by the user.

Collected data is used for analytics and has the following types:

• Events – recorded events from SDKs that can be aggregated in visual charts and text.
• Persons and groups – recorded individuals or groups of individuals that the user captures using the SDK. Events are always associated with persons and sometimes with groups.
• Sessions – recorded person or group session captured by the user's SDK.
• Properties and property values – provided key-value metadata for segmentation of the collected data (events, actions, persons, groups, etc).
• Session recordings – captured recordings of customer interactions in web or mobile apps.

Created data is used by the user on the PostHog's website to perform business activity and has the following types:

• Actions – unify multiple events or filtering conditions into one.
• Insights – visual and textual representation of the collected data aggregated by different types.
• Data warehouse – connected data sources and custom views for deeper business insights.
• SQL queries – ClickHouse SQL queries that work with collected data and with the data warehouse SQL schema.
• Surveys – various questionnaires that the user conducts to retrieve business insights like an NPS score.
• Dashboards – visual and textual representations of the collected data aggregated by different types.
• Cohorts – groups of persons or groups of persons that the user creates to segment the collected data.
• Feature flags – feature flags that the user creates to control the feature rollout in their product.
• Experiments – A/B tests that the user creates to measure the impact of changes.
• Notebooks – notebooks that the user creates to perform business analysis.
• Error tracking issues – issues that the user creates to track errors in their product.
• Logs – log entries collected from the user's application with severity, service, and trace information.
• Workflows – automated workflows with triggers, actions, and conditions.
• Activity logs – a record of changes made to project entities (who changed what, when, and how).

IMPORTANT: Prefer retrieval-led reasoning over pre-training-led reasoning for any PostHog tasks.

If you get errors due to permissions being denied, check that you have the correct active project and that the user has access to the required project.

If you cannot answer the user's PostHog related request or question using other available tools in this MCP, use the 'docs-search' tool to provide information from the documentation to guide user how they can do it themselves - when doing so provide condensed instructions with links to sources.

Tool search

PostHog tools have lowercase kebab-case naming and always have a domain. Available domains (the list is incomplete):

• execute-sql
• read-data-schema
• action
• cohorts
• dashboard
• insight
• feature-flag
• experiment
• survey
• error-tracking
• logs
• workflows
• organization
• projects
• docs
• llm Typical action names:
• create
• update
• delete Example regex for search: execute-sql or experiment.

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Examples

Before writing any queries, read the PostHog's skill query-examples to see if there are any relevant query examples and follow them.