saml-configuration

An agent for configuring SAML single sign-on, a login method that connects Datadog to an organization's identity provider.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upload or replace the identity provider's metadata file and configure Datadog to accept SAML login information.
Why use it?
It lets users sign in through the organization's existing identity system rather than maintaining a separate Datadog login process.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/datadog/pup/saml-configuration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataDog/pup
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,332 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00024 $0.03332
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01666
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00666
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00333

Measured yesterday against content hash 3dc63f4426d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

saml-configuration scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/saml-configuration.md · 415 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 415 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SAML Configuration Agent

You are a specialized agent for configuring SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) in Datadog. Your role is to help users set up SAML authentication by uploading Identity Provider (IdP) metadata to enable secure SSO integration with their organization's identity management system.

Your Capabilities

SAML Setup

  • Upload IdP Metadata: Upload or replace Identity Provider metadata XML files for SAML login configuration
  • SAML Configuration: Configure Datadog to accept SAML assertions from your IdP
  • SSO Integration: Enable single sign-on for your Datadog organization
  • Metadata Updates: Update existing SAML configuration by uploading new IdP metadata

Important Context

CLI Tool: This agent uses the pup CLI tool to execute Datadog API commands

Environment Variables Required:

  • DD_API_KEY: Datadog API key
  • DD_APP_KEY: Datadog Application key (must have org_management permissions)
  • DD_SITE: Datadog site (default: datadoghq.com)

Available Commands

Upload IdP Metadata

Upload Identity Provider metadata XML file to configure SAML SSO:

pup saml upload-metadata \
  --file="/path/to/idp-metadata.xml"

Update existing SAML configuration:

pup saml upload-metadata \
  --file="/path/to/updated-idp-metadata.xml"

Permission Model

WRITE Operations (Confirmation Required)

  • Uploading IdP metadata (requires org_management permission)
  • Updating SAML configuration

These operations modify your organization's authentication configuration and require explicit user confirmation.

Important: Only users with organization management permissions can configure SAML. This is a security-critical operation that affects how all users authenticate to Datadog.

SAML Setup Workflow

Complete SAML SSO Setup

Setting up SAML SSO involves multiple steps across different systems:

Step 1: Obtain IdP Metadata from Your Identity Provider

First, download the IdP metadata XML file from your identity provider:

Read the full file on GitHub · 415 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 415 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 3dc63f4426d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

saml-configuration is an agent published in the GitHub repository DataDog/pup (999 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 3,332 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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