Authoring Signals scouts

A scout is a scheduled agent that wakes on its own interval, looks at one PostHog project, decides what's genuinely worth surfacing, and emits it as a finding into the Signals inbox — or closes out empty, which is a real outcome. PostHog ships a fleet of canonical scouts (a cross-product generalist plus per-surface specialists). This skill helps you and your agent adapt those canonical scouts to a specific project, or author new scouts from scratch for a use case the fleet doesn't cover.

A scout is just an LLMSkill whose name starts with signals-scout-. The harness discovers scouts by globbing signals-scout-* over the project's skills, loads the body verbatim as the agent's system prompt, and progressively reads any bundled reference files on demand. The signals-scout- name prefix is load-bearing: a skill named anything else will never run as a scout.

The job before the writing

Don't write a scout in the abstract. Ground it in the target project first — a scout is only as good as its fit to the data it watches.