feat(automations): enhance tracking for automation lifecycle events

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• Added tracking for automation creation, updates, deletions, and trigger modifications, including success and failure events.
• Implemented event tracking in the automation creation process, including chat approval and rejection scenarios.
• Updated the instrumentation client to ensure correct typing for PostHog integration.
• Refactored existing mutation atoms to include tracking calls for automation-related actions, improving analytics capabilities.

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• Bug fix
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• Performance improvement
• Refactoring
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• Tested locally
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• Follows project coding standards and conventions
• Documentation updated as needed
• Dependencies updated as needed
• No lint/build errors or new warnings
• All relevant tests are passing

High-level PR Summary

This PR introduces comprehensive analytics tracking for automation lifecycle events throughout the application. It adds tracking for automation creation, updates, deletions, and trigger modifications (both success and failure cases), implements event tracking in the chat-based automation creation flow (approval, rejection, and draft editing), and fixes a TypeScript typing issue in the PostHog instrumentation client. All tracking calls use a new set of event functions defined in lib/posthog/events.ts and are integrated into existing mutation handlers and UI components without changing core business logic.

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Order	File Path
1	surfsense_web/lib/posthog/events.ts
2	surfsense_web/instrumentation-client.ts
3	surfsense_web/atoms/automations/automations-mutation.atoms.ts
4	surfsense_web/components/tool-ui/automation/create-automation.tsx

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
surf-sense-frontend	Ready	Preview, Comment	May 31, 2026 12:46am

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