HogQL insight creation with PostHog AI
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Description
Feature request
Is your feature request related to a problem?
Use case: When batch updating a dashboard within PostHog with PostHog AI by pasting a list of updated SQL queries into the chat (e.g. you manage queries outside for a large client project), the PostHog AI keeps creating trend visualizations for the Table Visualizations.
Limitation (Reply from PostHog AI itself):
The original insights are HogQL SQL table queries, and I was creating Trends chart visualizations instead. That's a mismatch I can't fix automatically with the tools available, because create_insight only supports trends, funnel, and retention visualization types — not HogQL SQL table queries.
Describe the solution you'd like
Give PostHog AI the tools to create HogQL table queries, so that it can adjust the dashboards accordingly.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Updating every query manually with UI buttons (Nobody wants to do that for multiple insights in a row)
Additional context
Debug info
- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the create_insight tool described in the issue and identify where support is limited to trends, funnel, and retention. Compare that limitation with the HogQL SQL table-query workflow used by the dashboard, and consider the batch-update use case complete when PostHog AI can create the requested table visualizations rather than converting them to trends.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, sql
- Domain
- ai, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100