Agent skill

Onboarding Summary

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

Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Onboarding Summary

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install datadog-labs/agent-skills onboarding-summary --agent claude-code

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

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/dd-apm/k8s-ssi/onboarding-summary .claude/skills/onboarding-summary && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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

Facts

Skill name
onboarding-summary
GitHub stars
177
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
321 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
39
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI.

  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting
  • SKILL.md covers Triggers, Context to resolve before acting, Prerequisites and Collect live confirmation data, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls kubectl
  • Tasks that involve Container orchestration

What it does

Onboarding Summary is an agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills. Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI. Only use after agent-install and enable-ssi have both completed successfully.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Monitoring and alerting and Container orchestration. It works with Datadog and Kubernetes. The repository describes itself as: Public repository for Datadog Agent Skills. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting
  • Tasks that involve Container orchestration

Example prompts

  • “/onboarding-summary”

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • kubectl

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use kubectl, 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

Onboarding Summary loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 321 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 321 words, ~1,074 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/onboarding-summary/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
onboarding-summary
description
Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI. Only use after agent-install and enable-ssi have both completed successfully.
metadata.version
1.0.0
metadata.author
datadog-labs
metadata.repository
https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills
metadata.tags
datadog,apm,kubernetes,ssi,summary,verification
metadata.alwaysApply
false

APM Onboarding Summary

Triggers

Invoke this skill when:

  • All steps in verify-ssi have passed
  • All checks in troubleshoot-ssi have been resolved
  • The user asks "is everything working?", "show me the status", or "confirm APM is set up"

Do NOT invoke this skill if any verification or troubleshooting check is still failing — resolve those first.


Context to resolve before acting

VariableHow to resolve
AGENT_NAMESPACENamespace where Datadog Agent is installed
APP_NAMESPACENamespace of the application
APP_LABELCheck spec.selector.matchLabels.app in the Deployment manifest
CLUSTER_NAMEspec.global.clusterName in datadog-agent.yaml
SERVICE_NAMEtags.datadoghq.com/service label on the Deployment
ENVtags.datadoghq.com/env label on the Deployment
DD_SITEspec.global.site in datadog-agent.yaml

Prerequisites

Claude runs
bash
pup auth status --site <DD_SITE>

If valid token — proceed.

ERROR: Not authenticated:

Claude runs
bash
pup auth login --site <DD_SITE>

This opens a browser tab for OAuth. Complete the login there — Claude will continue once the command exits.


Collect live confirmation data

Run all of the following. Each populates a row in the final report.

Claude runs
bash
# Agent pod count and status
kubectl get pods -n <AGENT_NAMESPACE> \
  -l app.kubernetes.io/component=agent \
  --no-headers

# SSI instrumentation config live in cluster
kubectl get datadogagent datadog -n <AGENT_NAMESPACE> \
  -o jsonpath='{.spec.features.apm.instrumentation}'

# Init container confirmed in app pod spec
kubectl get pod -l app=<APP_LABEL> -n <APP_NAMESPACE> \
  -o jsonpath='{.items[0].spec.initContainers[*].name}'

# Service visible and traced in APM
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup apm services list --env <ENV> --from 1h

# Traces arriving in the last hour
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup traces search --query "service:<SERVICE_NAME>" --from 1h --limit 5

Only if DSM was enabled via enable-dsm:

bash
# DSM pipeline data for the service
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup metrics query \
  --query "avg:data_streams.latency{service:<SERVICE_NAME>,env:<ENV>} by {pathway_type}" \
  --from 15m --to now

Present the report

Fill in every value from live command output. Do not leave any placeholder unfilled. If a value cannot be confirmed, mark that row as failed and link to troubleshoot-ssi.


APM onboarding complete

CheckDetailStatus
Datadog Agent<N> pod(s) Running in <AGENT_NAMESPACE>OK
SSI enabledTargeting namespace <APP_NAMESPACE>, language <LANGUAGE> v<MAJOR_VERSION>OK
Init container injecteddatadog-lib-<language>-init present in pod specOK
Tracer reportingService <SERVICE_NAME> appears in pup apm services list with isTraced: trueOK
APM service visible<SERVICE_NAME> in env <ENV>OK
Traces arriving<N> trace(s) found in the last hourOK
Data Streams (only if enabled)data_streams.latency series for <SERVICE_NAME>, or "pending first message"OK

Your service in Datadog — click to open:

Construct each URL by substituting real values. Do not print placeholder URLs.

ViewURL
Service overviewhttps://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/services/<SERVICE_NAME>?env=<ENV>
Traces explorerhttps://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/traces?query=service:<SERVICE_NAME>%20env:<ENV>
Service maphttps://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/map?env=<ENV>&service=<SERVICE_NAME>
Agent fleethttps://app.<DD_SITE>/fleet-automation
Data Streams (only if enabled)https://app.<DD_SITE>/data-streams

Security constraints

  • Never write a raw API key into any file or chat message

© datadog-labs, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in dd-apm/k8s-ssi/onboarding-summary of datadog-labs/agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d2411cc

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Questions about Onboarding Summary

What does Onboarding Summary do?

Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI. Onboarding Summary is an agent skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills. Generate a live Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) onboarding confirmation report — verifies APM instrumentation is working end-to-end with deep links into the Datadog UI.

When should I use Onboarding Summary?

Onboarding Summary fits situations like: tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting; tasks that involve Container orchestration.

How do I install Onboarding Summary in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill onboarding-summary -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (dd-apm/k8s-ssi/onboarding-summary in datadog-labs/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/onboarding-summary in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Onboarding Summary in Codex?

Run `npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill onboarding-summary -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (dd-apm/k8s-ssi/onboarding-summary in datadog-labs/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/onboarding-summary in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Onboarding Summary 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 onboarding-summary -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/onboarding-summary, .gemini/skills/onboarding-summary, .github/skills/onboarding-summary and .opencode/skills/onboarding-summary in your project.

What does Onboarding Summary need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Onboarding Summary needs the command-line tools its instructions call (kubectl).

Does Onboarding Summary access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Onboarding Summary 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 Onboarding Summary use?

Onboarding Summary is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Onboarding Summary use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k 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 Onboarding Summary?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Onboarding Summary: KubeEye Cluster Inspection (kubesphere/kubesphere, 17k stars), Signoz (qjoly/GitOps, 112 stars), Grafana Dashboard (pando85/kaniop, 132 stars) and Cloud Devops (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Onboarding Summary?

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.