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Component Analytics Hook

Instrument shared components once instead of hand-writing events on every screen.

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What it adds

Interaction tracking attached to the app's shared components, emitting named events carrying the context of where they were used.

What your agent is told to do

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    Identify the shared components that account for most interaction — buttons, links, menus, dialogs, tabs, table rows, form submits — and attach tracking inside them rather than at each of the hundreds of call sites.

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    Have each component emit its own identity and the context it was rendered in: the screen, the surface, and a stable identifier supplied by the caller. Position on the page and visible label are not identity.

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    Emit exactly one event per user action. A menu item inside a card inside a table row must not produce three overlapping records of the same click.

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    Keep component events separate from business events. A dialog opening is a UI fact; a subscription being upgraded is a product fact recorded where the outcome is confirmed, not where the button was pressed.

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    Names, properties, and versioning are owned by UI Event Naming Schema, and redaction, sampling, and consent are owned by Interaction Telemetry Guardrails. This feature owns where events originate and what context they carry. Do not restate either policy inside the components.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Nested interactive components will each see the same click as it bubbles, producing duplicate events for one action. Decide which level owns the event and stop it from being recorded again as it travels upward.
  • A component event and a business event describing the same moment must not be conflated. Tracking an upgrade at the button records intent, including the attempts that failed at payment, which is a different number from upgrades that happened.
  • Component properties must never carry the values inside them. A search field emits that a search ran, not the query; a row emits its record identifier, not the customer's name or email.
  • Names must survive a visual refactor. An event tied to a component's current label, colour, or place in the layout breaks the moment the page is redesigned, which is exactly when the comparison matters most.
  • Rapid repeated interaction — a double click on submit, a held arrow key through a list — must be collapsed rather than emitted once per event.
  • Components rendered off-screen, in a hidden tab, or restored from a cached page must not emit view events for things nobody saw.
  • Events queued while the browser is offline or during a page unload need a delivery path, or the last action before someone leaves is always the one that is missing.

Definition of done

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  • Shared components emit their own interaction events without per-screen instrumentation.
  • Each event carries a stable component identifier plus its screen and surface context.
  • One user action produces exactly one event, including in nested interactive components.
  • Component events and business events are separate streams with separate names.
  • No event property contains user-entered text or personal data.
  • Event identity is unchanged by a visual redesign of the component.
  • Naming and privacy policy live in their own features rather than being duplicated in component code.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

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    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

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    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

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    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.