Name: authoring-log-alerts
Rating: 80 (1 reviews)
Author: PostHog

authoring-log-alerts

Author useful, low-noise log alerts on services in a PostHog project. Use when the user asks to set up alerts for their logs, suggest alerts they should add, or evaluate whether a service is worth monitoring. Covers service triage, baseline characterisation, threshold drafting, back-testing via simulate, and shipping with a notification destination.

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The body is a tight, actionable workflow that respects Claude's intelligence while supplying exactly the domain-specific knowledge it lacks — exact tool names, a baseline-stats script, decision tables, and iteration caps with feedback loops. Bundle references are real, one level deep, and clearly signaled.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Lean and efficient — opens with 'Authoring an alert is a measurement problem, not a guessing problem' and assumes Claude's competence; no padding or explanation of basic concepts, every section earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides a fully executable command ('echo ... \| python3 scripts/baseline_stats.py --window-minutes 5'), concrete JSON examples, exact tool names, and specific parameter values — copy-paste ready guidance.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A six-step numbered workflow with explicit validation checkpoints: simulate fire_count must land in the 0–3 band, a health-flag decision table, and a hard 'three rounds then ship or skip' feedback loop for error recovery.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is an overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references (threshold-defaults.md, volume-floor-alerts.md) and a helper script (baseline_stats.py) — all verified to exist as real bundle files, appropriately split out.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

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The description is concise, specific, and uses third-person voice throughout, clearly stating what the skill does and when to invoke it with natural trigger language. It carves a distinct niche (PostHog log-alert authoring) that minimizes conflict risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions including 'Author useful, low-noise log alerts', 'service triage, baseline characterisation, threshold drafting, back-testing via simulate, and shipping with a notification destination' — concrete verbs and specific sub-tasks rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both what (authoring log alerts on PostHog services) and when (explicit 'Use when' triggers for set-up, suggestion, and evaluation requests).	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	The 'Use when the user asks to set up alerts for their logs, suggest alerts they should add, or evaluate whether a service is worth monitoring' clause uses natural phrasings a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Scoped to 'log alerts on services in a PostHog project' with distinct triggers, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated alerting or PostHog skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: PostHog/posthog
Path: products/logs/skills/authoring-log-alerts/SKILL.md
Commit: bb04e92

Reviewed: about 14 hours ago

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