# Managing Experiment Lifecycle

> Guides experiment state transitions: launching, pausing, resuming, ending, shipping variants, archiving, resetting, duplicating, and copying to another project. Covers preconditions, implications for variant assignment and analysis, and the decision framework for when to use each action.\nTRIGGER when: user asks to launch, pause, resume, end, ship, archive, reset, duplicate, or copy an experiment to another project.\nDO 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).

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-posthog-managing-experiment-lifecycle
- tashan id: skill:PostHog/managing-experiment-lifecycle
- Source: https://github.com/PostHog/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r managing-experiment-lifecycle ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.