Agent skill

Agent Skills

by datadog-labs in datadog-labs/agent-skills

Datadog skills for AI agents. An agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills.

Install Agent Skills

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .claude/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .agents/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .cursor/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .gemini/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .github/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills agent-skills --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "agent-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills/tree/main into .opencode/skills/agent-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "agent-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: agent-skills
GitHub stars: 177
Token cost: ~951 tokens
SKILL.md length: 346 words
Files: 10
Skills in repo: 39
Repo updated: Oct 8, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Datadog skills for AI agents. An agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills.

Works in 5 steps: Check context first (conversation, prior… → Run discovery commands when required… → Ask the user only when values remain… → …
Tasks that involve Observability
SKILL.md covers Core Skills, Install, Prerequisites and Command Execution Policy, plus 3 more sections
Runs Rust scripts from its folder; calls npx

What it does

Agent Skills is an agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills. Datadog skills for AI agents. Essential monitoring, logging, tracing and observability.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 11 other files (for example `README.md`).

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability. It works with Datadog and Terraform. The repository describes itself as: Public repository for Datadog Agent Skills. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

“/agent-skills”

Requirements

Python 3
Node.js

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

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

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d2411cc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships script files (Rust), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- npx
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Agent Skills loads about 951 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 25 tokens; SKILL.md has 346 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~25
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~951

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from datadog-labs/agent-skills at commit d2411cc, republished under its MIT licence (© datadog-labs). 346 words, ~951 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 9 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.

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 for installation and authentication.

Command Execution Policy

Use this order for scoped commands:

Check context first (conversation, prior outputs, known values).
Run discovery commands when required values are missing.
Ask the user only when values remain ambiguous.
Run the target command after required inputs are known.
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

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bash

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

Files

SKILL.md and 9 other files in the repository root of datadog-labs/agent-skills.

SKILL.md
.gitignore
Cargo.toml
LICENSE
README.md
agent-observability
dd-apps
dd-security/csm
dd-software-delivery
src/lib.rs

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d2411cc

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Agent Skills this skilldatadog-labs/agent-skills	177	—	~951	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	yesterday
Datadog Data Source GeneratorDataDog/terraform-provider-datadog	468	—	~2.7k	Automated safety check: Pass	MPL-2.0	today
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Google Agents CLI Observabilitypifferologo/cloud-agents-cli	129	1 repos	~2.5k	Automated safety check: Pass	Apache-2.0	1 mo ago
Redis Observabilityredis/agent-skills	166	2 repos	~911	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	1 mo ago
Agent Platform Alert Configurationgoogle/skills	21k	—	~4.2k	Automated safety check: Pass	Apache-2.0	today

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Questions about Agent Skills

What does Agent Skills do?

Datadog skills for AI agents. An agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills. Agent Skills is an agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills. Datadog skills for AI agents.

When should I use Agent Skills?

Agent Skills fits situations like: tasks that involve Observability.

How do I install Agent Skills in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the datadog-labs/agent-skills repository) into .claude/skills/agent-skills in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agent Skills in Codex?

Run `npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the datadog-labs/agent-skills repository) into .agents/skills/agent-skills in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agent Skills in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agent-skills, .gemini/skills/agent-skills, .github/skills/agent-skills and .opencode/skills/agent-skills in your project.

What does Agent Skills need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Agent Skills needs Rust for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (npx). Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js.

Does Agent Skills access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Agent Skills safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Agent Skills use?

Agent Skills is published under the MIT licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Agent Skills use?

About 951 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Agent Skills?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Skills: Datadog Data Source Generator (DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog, 468 stars), Apm Integrations (DataDog/dd-trace-java, 736 stars), Google Agents CLI Observability (pifferologo/cloud-agents-cli, 129 stars) and Redis Observability (redis/agent-skills, 166 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Skills?

datadog-labs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in datadog-labs/agent-skills, which has 177 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: datadog-labs/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Agent Skills

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Datadog Skills

Core Skills

Install

Prerequisites

Command Execution Policy

Quick Reference

Auth

More Skills

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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Questions about Agent Skills