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agent-skills

This skill package provides Datadog observability tools for AI agents, including monitoring, logging, tracing, APM, and cloud integrations through the pup CLI.

by DatadogOfficial publisherNot reviewed

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Agents
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, claude.ai and API
License
MIT (permissive)
Pin
9cbd518pinned Oct 9, 2026
Context cost
about 910 tokenswhen the skill loads
GitHub stars
177on datadog-labs/agent-skills
Scripts
None found

What it does

“Datadog skills for AI agents. Essential monitoring, logging, tracing and observability.”
The author's description, from SKILL.md

Generated summary from the skill's own text

This skill package provides Datadog observability tools for AI agents, including monitoring, logging, tracing, APM, and cloud integrations through the pup CLI. Agents can search logs, manage monitors and alerts, analyze traces, instrument applications with RUM and LLM observability, and configure AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI integrations using Terraform.

When to use it

  • Setting up Datadog account authentication and API key validation
  • Searching logs, traces, and metrics for troubleshooting performance issues
  • Creating and managing monitors, alerts, and downtime schedules
  • Instrumenting browser or backend applications with Datadog observability

When not to

  • When Datadog account access or API key is unavailable
  • For non-observability tasks unrelated to monitoring or tracing
  • When real-time metric queries need extremely low-latency responses

Install

These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.

skills CLI

npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills

Installs from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.

GitHub CLI 2.90 or later

gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills@9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46f

Installs the commit we checked (9cbd518).

Copy by hand

Download the folder at 9cbd518 and put it in .claude/skills/agent-skills for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/agent-skills for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

Skill folder on GitHub at 9cbd518

Claude Code plugin

/plugin install datadog@claude-plugins-official

The publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.

Copy for your agent

A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.

Prompt

Install the agent skill "agent-skills" by Datadog.

Source, pinned to commit 9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46f:
https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/9cbd518922765c46d5d446f09cf03d060dd4b46f

1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch.
2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/agent-skills/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/agent-skills/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist.
3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to.
4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them.

Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/datadog/agent-skills

SKILL.md at the pin

---
name: agent-skills
description: Datadog skills for AI agents. Essential monitoring, logging, tracing and observability.
metadata:
  version: "1.0.3"
---

# Datadog Skills

Essential Datadog skills for AI agents.

## Core Skills

| Skill | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| **dd-account-setup** | Ensure an authenticated Datadog account with a valid API key on the right region; validates keys, fixes wrong-region 403s, signs in or creates an account |
| **dd-apm** | Traces, services, performance analysis |
| **dd-apps**              | Build Datadog Apps — scaffold, run, upload, publish, CI/CD |
| **dd-aws-integration** | Connect an AWS account to Datadog with Terraform - cross-account IAM role, metrics and resource collection |
| **dd-azure-integration** | Connect Azure subscriptions or management groups to Datadog with Terraform - Entra app registration, Monitoring Reader |
| **dd-browser-sdk** | Browser SDK setup, RUM, Logs, Session Replay, version migration |
| **dd-docs** | Search Datadog documentation |
| **dd-gcp-integration** | Connect GCP projects or folders to Datadog with Terraform - keyless service-account impersonation |
| **dd-llmo** | LLM Observability traces, experiments, evals |
| **dd-logs** | Search logs, pipelines, archives |
| **dd-monitors** | Create, manage, mute monitors and alerts |
| **dd-oci-integration** | Connect an Oracle Cloud tenancy to Datadog with Terraform - Datadog's official OCI module |
| **dd-product-recommender** | Recommend the right Datadog products for a codebase and/or goal (recommendation only) |
| **dd-pup** | Primary CLI - all pup commands, auth, PATH setup |
| **dd-software-delivery** | CI/CD workflow skills — unblock PR, triage flaky tests |
| **dd-instrument-llmo** | Instrument Python & Node.js/Next.js AI backends with Datadog LLM Observability — SDK init, agent/workflow spans, RUM↔LLMO session linking |
| **dd-instrument-rum** | Instrument browser apps with Datadog Browser RUM — React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Nuxt, Svelte, vanilla |

## Install

```bash
# Install core skills
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills \
  --skill dd-pup \
  --skill dd-monitors \
  --skill dd-logs \
  --skill dd-apm \
  --skill dd-docs \
  --full-depth -y

# Install CI/CD workflow skills
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills \
  --skill dd-software-delivery/unblock-pr \
  --skill dd-software-delivery/triage-flaky-test \
  --full-depth -y
```

## Prerequisites

See [Setup Pup](https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#setup-pup) for installation and authentication.

## Command Execution Policy

Use this order for scoped commands:

1. Check context first (conversation, prior outputs, known values).
2. Run discovery commands when required values are missing.
3. Ask the user only when values remain ambiguous.
4. Run the target command after required inputs are known.
5. Avoid speculative commands likely to fail.

## Quick Reference

| Task | Command |
|------|---------|
| Search error logs | `pup logs search --query "status:error" --from 1h` |
| List monitors | `pup monitors list` |
| Schedule monitor downtime | `pup downtime create --file downtime.json` |
| Find slow traces | `pup traces search --query "service:api @duration:>500ms" --from 1h` |
| Query metrics | `pup metrics query --query "avg:system.cpu.user{*}"` |
| Check auth | `pup auth status` |
| Refresh token | `pup auth refresh` |

## Auth

```bash
pup auth login          # OAuth2 (recommended)
pup auth status         # Check token
pup auth refresh        # Refresh expired token
```

**Token Expiry**: OAuth tokens expire (~1 hour). Run `pup auth refresh` if commands fail with 401/403.

## More Skills

Additional skills available shortly.

```bash
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --list --full-depth
```

From datadog-labs/agent-skills at 9cbd518, shown as plain text under its license: MIT (permissive). The license text is in LICENSE.

View SKILL.md on GitHub at 9cbd518

Files

6 files, 27 KB in total. Each file has a sha256 in the pin's manifest; the first 12 characters are shown.

Skill folder on GitHub at 9cbd518
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