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signals-scout-logs

Signals scout for PostHog logs. Watches for emerging and rate-shifted message patterns, volume bursts, severity-distribution shifts, service silence, and trace-correlated bursts.

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Quality

Content

81%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a dense, highly actionable logs-scout playbook with a well-sequenced workflow and explicit validation checkpoints. Its main weakness is redundancy — several critical footguns are restated across multiple sections — and it carries no external reference files, relying entirely on inline organization.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated date-footgun ('m = month, no minute unit') and 'ignore the sparkline' warnings into one canonical callout and back-reference it instead of restating in each section.

Consider extracting the long 'MCP tools' reference into a references/ file so the main body stays a lean overview with one-level-deep navigation.

Tighten the Explore subsections, which re-explain tool behavior already covered in 'MCP tools', to reduce token overlap.

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Conciseness

The body is information-dense with no basic-concept padding, but it repeats the same critical footguns multiple times (the 'm = month, no minute unit' date footgun and 'ignore the sparkline' each recur across 3+ sections), which could be consolidated.

3 / 5

Actionability

Highly actionable: specific MCP tools with concrete parameters (e.g. 'severityLevels=["fatal"]' over 24h, 'logs-services-create' over '-1h', scoping by 'serviceNames'/'severityLevels'), named fields to read or ignore, and concrete scratchpad key prefixes covering the common signal shapes.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced run (oriented -> explore -> save memory -> decide -> close out) with explicit validation checkpoints (require independent corroboration before any write, check 'baseline.total_count' before trusting 'new', search the inbox before authoring) plus explicit 'When to stop' termination criteria.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, so all content is inline in a single well-organized file with clear section headers and navigable structure; the long MCP-tools reference and explore patterns could theoretically be split out, but the organization is solid.

4 / 5

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20

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Description

75%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific and distinct, clearly naming the PostHog-logs domain and several concrete signal shapes, but it omits any explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, which caps its completeness. Trigger-term coverage is good though not exhaustive.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural trigger phrases (e.g. 'Use when investigating PostHog log volume, severity shifts, fresh error messages, or silent services').

Include common synonyms/extensions users might say (e.g. 'log spikes', 'error floods', 'new error signatures') to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Reflect the report-authoring output in the description so the skill's purpose (filing inbox reports) is visible up front.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (PostHog logs) and lists multiple concrete watch-patterns — 'emerging and rate-shifted message patterns, volume bursts, severity-distribution shifts, service silence, and trace-correlated bursts' — giving comprehensive coverage of specific actions.

5 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clearly stated, but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance; per the judging guidelines this caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms for the audience are present ('PostHog logs', 'logs', 'volume bursts', 'severity-distribution', 'service silence') with good coverage, though a few common synonyms/variations are missing and no explicit trigger phrase is given.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Signals scout for PostHog logs' carves out a clear, narrow niche with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

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Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository

PostHog/posthog

Path

products/signals/skills/signals-scout-logs/SKILL.md

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