Agent Skills
OfficialAutomates agent skill creation and management within Datadog Agents, streamlining observability workflows.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-skills -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
datadog-labs
Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.
Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.
No undeclared network calls: failed
Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: mcp.datadoghq.com.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
Hosts contacted
mcp.datadoghq.comundeclaredWhat it found
- README.md:156contacts mcp.datadoghq.com
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http "datadog-llmo-mcp" 'https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp?toolsets=llmobs' - README.md:163contacts mcp.datadoghq.com
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http "datadog-mcp-core" 'https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp?toolsets=core'
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned datadog-labs/agent-skills at 9f3a8b065b.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 9f3a8b065b
- Manifest
- SKILL.md
- Scanned
- 5 files, 589 lines
About this skill
What it does
This skill allows users to discover and install skills for AI agents. It provides a centralized registry where developers can publish their AI agent skills, and users can easily find and integrate them into their workflows. The core functionality revolves around the discovery, installation, and management of these reusable AI agent components.
When to use it
- You want to extend the capabilities of an existing AI agent without writing code from scratch.
- You're looking for pre-built solutions to common AI tasks like data analysis or content generation.
- You need a way to manage and organize different skills used by your AI agents.
- You are developing custom AI agent skills and want to share them with others.
Key capabilities
- Skill discovery: Browse available skills based on category, author, or keywords.
- Skill installation: Easily install selected skills into an AI agent environment.
- Skill management: Organize and track installed skills.
- Developer publishing: Allows developers to publish their own skills to the registry.
Example prompts
- "Show me all skills related to data analysis."
- "Install the 'summarization' skill by Acme Corp."
- “What skills are available from datadog-labs?”
Tips & gotchas
The effectiveness of this skill depends on the quality and availability of published skills. Ensure you have a compatible AI agent environment before attempting to install any skills.