Repository Traffic to PostHog workflow (eidolon-ai/eidolon)

The Repository Traffic to PostHog workflow from eidolon-ai/eidolon, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: eidolon-ai/eidolon.github/workflows/push_to_posthog.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Repository Traffic to PostHog workflow from the eidolon-ai/eidolon repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Repository Traffic to PostHog

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *'  # Run daily at midnight
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  push_to_posthog:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
      - name: Install poetry
        run: pipx install poetry
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'
          cache: 'poetry'
      - run: poetry install
        working-directory: scripts
      - run: poetry run push_pypi_downloads  --package eidolon-ai-sdk --api-key ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} --project-key ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
        working-directory: scripts
      - run: |
          chmod +x bin/push_github.sh
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/agent-machine ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon-quickstart ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon-git-search ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/web-researcher ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
        working-directory: scripts

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Repository Traffic to PostHog
 
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *'  # Run daily at midnight
  workflow_dispatch:
 
jobs:
  push_to_posthog:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      contents: write
 
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
      - name: Install poetry
        run: pipx install poetry
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'
          cache: 'poetry'
      - run: poetry install
        working-directory: scripts
      - run: poetry run push_pypi_downloads  --package eidolon-ai-sdk --api-key ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} --project-key ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
        working-directory: scripts
      - run: |
          chmod +x bin/push_github.sh
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/agent-machine ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon-quickstart ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/eidolon-git-search ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
          bin/push_github.sh eidolon-ai/web-researcher ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }} ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_PROJECT_KEY }}
        working-directory: scripts

What changed

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What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

Dependency installs

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout actions/setup-python