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DataDog/datadog-agent agent skills
- skills
- 35
- official
- 35
- GitHub stars
- 3.8k
GitHub description: “Main repository for Datadog Agent”
- Stars
- 3,757 (1,503 forks)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Jan 2016
- Homepage
- docs.datadoghq.com
- monitoring
- go
- datadog
- apm-agent
- apm-instrumentation
- distributed-tracing
- logging
- metrics
- observability
- open-telemetry
- otel
- profiling
- tracing
Install all skills
npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agentAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in DataDog/datadog-agent, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Classify a failed CI as either caused by an active incident, flakiness, or a true code regression. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 2 | Run a structured discovery session to build an Allium specification through conversation. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | 1 repo | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 3 | Monitor the current PR's GitLab pipeline to completion, then report success, auto-fix, or investigate a failure. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses when an engineer or manager asks to recap, summarize, or post an update on a Jira Epic — a progress update for an in-progress Epic (how far along it is, what's shipped so… | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 5 | Explains a lading.yaml config file from the regression test suite, using the lading Rust source as ground truth for field meanings and defaults. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 6 | Extract an Allium specification from an existing codebase. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | 1 repo | ~7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 7 | Run one already-written new-e2e test locally and triage the setup failures that stop it — "run the containers e2e tests", "my e2e run fails before any test starts". | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 8 | Generate tests from Allium specifications. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | 1 repo | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 9 | Sync CWS BTFHub constants after adding a new constantfetch offset, so pre-BTF kernels can resolve it. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~600 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 10 | Validate live GPU metrics on clusters running the Agent version under test and investigate missing metrics or tag failures. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 11 | Give your AI agents something more useful than a prompt. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | Handle a CI failure that is reliably attributed to the current PR's own code changes. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 13 | A skill your agent uses when a user asks to update, bump, or troubleshoot OpenTelemetry Collector dependencies in datadog-agent, including OCB build failures, ddflareextension golden files, static… | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 14 | Run Windows E2E tests (MSI install tests or Fleet Automation/installer tests) locally against AWS-provisioned VMs | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 15 | Write or extend Datadog Agent new-e2e tests, including fakeintake coverage and the GitLab wiring that runs them; derives scope from the current diff when no target is named. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 16 | Generate the Agent Supply Chain newsletter by researching team activity on GitHub and Confluence, then creating a Confluence draft and Gmail draft | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 17 | Autonomously work on Jira backlog tickets, creating PRs and shepherding them to merge | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 18 | Create a new Fx component using the modern def/fx/impl pattern (NOT legacy) | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 19 | Add a new configuration field to the Datadog Agent (datadog.yaml) by declaring it in the config schema | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 20 | Create a new Go core check that collects metrics and sends them to Datadog | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 21 | Create a new Go module in the agent repository. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~682 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 22 | Create a new Python invoke task for the dda CLI. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~606 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 23 | Create a pull request for the current branch with proper labels and description. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 24 | Create a reno release note for a PR or change. An agent skill from DataDog/datadog-agent. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 25 | Create a new RuntimeSetting that can be changed at runtime via agent config set/get and the config API | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 26 | Add a new section to the agent status output (agent status command) | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~685 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 27 | Add a new CLI subcommand to an agent binary (agent, cluster-agent, etc.) | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~677 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 28 | Audit CWS (runtime-security) iouring functional-test coverage and add a functional test for any iouring opcode whose operation CWS observes but that is not exercised through iouring. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | Judge whether Agent behavior belongs in a new-e2e, integration, or unit test | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 30 | Find where an Agent config setting or section is defined in the YAML schemas, and print its schema node, using dda inv schema.locate | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 31 | Analyze static quality gate on-disk size changes, correlate with Confluence exception records and GitHub PRs by milestone | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 32 | Review and triage PR review comments on the current branch — groups threads by file, separates bots from humans, walks through unresolved comments interactively | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 33 | Build, deploy, and test Datadog Agent components (agent, cluster-agent, operator, CSI driver) on a local Kubernetes cluster using the injector-dev CLI. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Warn | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 34 | Fetch a Jira issue and propose an implementation plan based on codebase analysis | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~635 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 35 | Update a C/C++ third-party library under deps/ — bump version, reconcile sources/copts/config.h/patches, and verify the build. | DataDog/ | 3.8k | — | ~234 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in DataDog/datadog-agent?
Triage CI Failure (official) from DataDog/datadog-agent ranks first of the 35 skills in DataDog/datadog-agent listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 3.8k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Elicit and Follow PR.
Are the skills in DataDog/datadog-agent official?
35 of the 35 skills in DataDog/datadog-agent are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Triage CI Failure, Elicit, Follow PR, Create Epic Recap, Explain Lading Config and 30 more.
How do I install all skills from DataDog/datadog-agent?
Run npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.