Working With Scouts
by PostHog469d1773e9cbNo licenseListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026
How to get real jobs done with PostHog Signals scouts — the scheduled agents that watch a project and write reports into the Signals inbox — and how to steer and customize the fleet over time. Use when a user wants to delegate a watching job ("have a scout keep an eye on X", "tell me if Y spikes"), wants a recurring judged metric from a scout ("score X on a schedule", "measure quality of Y"), wants to know which scout covers a surface, asks how to act on what scouts report, complains the fleet is noisy or quiet, or wants the fleet to get smarter over time (feedback loops, calibration, promoting one-off steers into policy). The operating manual for the human–scout working relationship; routes to `authoring-scouts` for write mechanics, `exploring-scouts` for run observability, and `inbox-exploration` for report triage. Trigger on "work with my scouts", "get more out of scouts", "have a scout watch X", "what do I do with this scout report", "calibrate/review my scout fleet".
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