managing-experiment-lifecycle

Guides experiment state transitions: launching.

What this skill does for you

Guides experiment state transitions: launching, pausing, resuming, freezing/unfreezing exposure, ending, shipping variants, archiving, resetting, duplicating, copying to another project, and migrating a legacy experiment to the new experiments engine. 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, duplicate, or copy an experiment to another project, to freeze/unfreeze exposure (stop enrolling new users while metrics keep flowing, or reopen enrollment), or to migrate, convert, move or upgrade a legacy experiment to the new engine or the new metric format. 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).

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Who made it

Publisherposthog

Repositoryskills

Installs314as of Sep 27, 2026

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Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

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Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 835ceac8ec56af5ca9af647c815abc2fa6f9b330. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 835ceac8ec56af5ca9af647c815abc2fa6f9b330. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 835ceac8ec56af5ca9af647c815abc2fa6f9b330. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/posthog/skills
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: 835ceac8ec56af5ca9af647c815abc2fa6f9b330
Package hash: sha256:191fd9c8ff1e97696c48389ef447b3c5ab82c17efd9a086574632ea109f326eb
Licence: MIT