PostHog Core Workflow A — Product Analytics

Overview

Primary PostHog workflow covering event capture, user identification, group analytics, and person properties. This is the foundation for all PostHog analytics: capturing what users do, linking events to identified users, and grouping users by company/team for B2B analytics.

Prerequisites

• Completed posthog-install-auth setup
• posthog-js (browser) and/or posthog-node (server) installed
• Project API key (phc_...) configured

Instructions

Tool discipline

Use Read to inspect the relevant configuration and implementation before proposing changes. Use Grep to locate initialization, capture, flag, and credential boundaries. Use Write only for a new, explicitly requested artifact inside the target project. Use Edit for minimal changes to existing project files after the evidence pass.

Step 1: Define Event Taxonomy