investigate-metric
investigate-metric is an agent skill published by posthog. It lives in the PostHog/skills repository, which has 75 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Diagnose changes in product metrics by querying breakdowns, actors, paths, lifecycle, retention, and annotations. Used when an anomaly is reported or root-cause analysis is needed for trends, funnels, or lifecycle metrics.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads PostHog/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add PostHog/skills
Maintenance
Diagnose why a product metric changed (dropped, spiked, or plateaued) by orchestrating breakdowns, actors, paths, lifecycle, retention, and annotations queries. Use when the user reports an anomaly, asks "why did X change?", or needs root-cause analysis for a trend, funnel, retention, stickiness, or lifecycle metric.
Common questions about investigate-metric
- What does investigate-metric do?
- Diagnose changes in product metrics by querying breakdowns, actors, paths, lifecycle, retention, and annotations. Used when an anomaly is reported or root-cause analysis is needed for trends, funnels, or lifecycle metrics.
- How do I install investigate-metric?
- Run npx skills add PostHog/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes investigate-metric?
- posthog.
- Is investigate-metric maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 75 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.