Install
npx skills add PostHog/ai-plugin --skill instrument-tracing
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install posthog@posthog
This skill is part of the plugin “posthog”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the instrument-tracing skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about instrument-tracing
What does the instrument-tracing skill do?
Add PostHog distributed tracing to see how requests flow through services and where time goes. Use after implementing features or reviewing PRs to ensure request entry points, outbound calls, and background jobs produce spans, or when asked to add tracing or spans. Also handles pointing existing OpenTelemetry tracing at PostHog and initial OTLP exporter setup.
How do I install instrument-tracing?
In a terminal: npx skills add PostHog/ai-plugin --skill instrument-tracing. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use instrument-tracing?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is instrument-tracing safe to use?
Our automatic check found patterns worth a look (see “Check”). That is not proof of anything bad – read the SKILL.md and scripts before installing.
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