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Managing Experiment Lifecycle

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Guides experiment state transitions: launching, pausing, resuming, ending, shipping variants, archiving, resetting, and duplicating. Covers preconditions, implications for variant assignment and analysis, and the decision framework for when to use each action. TRIGGER when: user asks to launch, pause, resume, end, ship, archive, reset, or duplicate an experiment. DO NOT TRIGGER when: user is creating an experiment (use creating-experiments), configuring rollout (use configuring-experiment-rollout), or setting up metrics (use configuring-experiment-analytics).

Purpose

To provide clear guidance and execute actions for managing the entire lifecycle of product experiments, ensuring correct state transitions and understanding their impact on users and analysis.

Features

  • Guides experiment state transitions (launch, pause, resume, end, ship, archive, reset, duplicate)
  • Covers preconditions for each action
  • Explains implications for variant assignment
  • Details impact on statistical analysis
  • Provides a decision framework for selecting actions

Use Cases

  • When a user asks to launch, pause, resume, end, ship, archive, reset, or duplicate an experiment.
  • When needing to understand the consequences of an experiment state change on user assignment or data collection.
  • When a user needs to clean up or restart an experiment's configuration.

Non-Goals

  • Creating new experiments (use `creating-experiments`)
  • Configuring experiment rollout (use `configuring-experiment-rollout`)
  • Setting up experiment metrics (use `configuring-experiment-analytics`)

Workflow

  1. Identify the desired experiment action (launch, pause, end, etc.).
  2. Determine the current state and necessary preconditions.
  3. Execute the corresponding tool with any required parameters (e.g., `variant_key`).
  4. Review the outcome or error message provided by the tool.

Practices

  • Experiment lifecycle management
  • Product analytics
  • A/B testing
  • Feature flagging

Prerequisites

  • An experiment ID to operate on

Trust

  • warning:Issues AttentionWith 544 open issues and 163 closed issues in the last 90 days, the closure rate is low (approx. 23%), indicating slow maintainer response to open issues.

Installation

npx skills add PostHog/posthog

Runs the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.

Quality Score

93 /100
Analyzed about 20 hours ago

Trust Signals

Last commitabout 20 hours ago
Stars34.5k
LicenseMIT-0
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