# PostHog Scouts Use Markdown Skills for Data Monitoring

DevFeed: [PostHog Scouts Use Markdown Skills for Data Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-weirdest-part-of-posthog-s-ai-stack-is-just-a-markdown-file-18135.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hungrymindsdev.substack.com/p/the-weirdest-part-of-posthogs-ai>)

Author: Alexandre Zajac

Published: 2026-08-17T15:30:30Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hungry Minds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hungry-minds.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes PostHog scouts: small agents that monitor product data, produce evidence-backed findings, and use Markdown skill files to define their logic. It outlines a thin execution harness, MCP data tools, a scratchpad for durable state, and the challenge of avoiding noisy alerts.

## Source excerpt

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