agent-install

agent-install is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from datadog-labs/agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for installing the Datadog Agent on a Kubernetes cluster using the Datadog Operator. The Agent collects data for Datadog, and this installation is required before enabling SSI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when no Datadog Agent is deployed yet and you need to install one before enabling Single Step Instrumentation.
Why use it?
It provides the cluster-side foundation needed for Datadog APM and automatic application instrumentation. It also checks for required credentials and Helm.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 165repo +3 12d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: failSkillSpector: warn 54 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when no Datadog Agent is deployed yet and you need to install one before enabling Single Step Instrumentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadog-labs/agent-skills/agent-install
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.

Any agent
npx skills add datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill agent-install
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,335 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 1 May 2026
  • Snyk fail 1 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 67
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 259
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00054 $0.02335
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00233

Measured 8d ago against content hash 17da5ca2425e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-install scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

tools: helm,kubectl,curl,pup
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

dd-apm/k8s-ssi/agent-install/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes

Before doing anything else: Fully resolve all variables in ## Context to resolve before acting. Do not begin Step 1 until every variable has a concrete value.

Phase 0: Load Credentials

[ -f environment ] && source environment
echo "DD_API_KEY set: $([ -n "${DD_API_KEY:-}" ] && echo yes || echo no)"
echo "DD_SITE: ${DD_SITE:-not set}"
echo "helm: $(helm version --short 2>/dev/null || echo NOT FOUND)"

If helm is not found — tell the user:

helm is required for this skill. Install it with:

brew install helm        # macOS
# or see https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ for other platforms

Once installed, let me know and I'll continue.

Do not proceed until helm is available.

If DD_API_KEY is already set — proceed to Prerequisites.

If DD_API_KEY is not set — tell the user:

I need two things to continue:

1. Datadog API Key — used to authenticate the Agent with your Datadog account. You can find or create one at: https://app.datadoghq.com/organization-settings/api-keys

2. Datadog Site — the region your Datadog account is on. Most accounts use datadoghq.com. Check your Datadog URL to confirm (e.g. app.datadoghq.eu → site is datadoghq.eu). Other options: us3.datadoghq.com, us5.datadoghq.com, ap1.datadoghq.com.

Please run the following in this chat to set your credentials (the ! prefix executes it in this session):

! export DD_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
! export DD_SITE=datadoghq.com

Wait for the user to run the commands, then re-run the check above before continuing.


Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes v1.20+ — kubectl version
  • helm v3+ — helm version
  • kubectl configured to target cluster — kubectl config current-context
  • pup-cli installed — check with pup --version; if missing, install it now:
    if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then
      brew tap datadog-labs/pack && brew install pup
    else
      PUP_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/datadog-labs/pup/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name"' | cut -d'"' -f4)
      curl -L "https://github.com/datadog-labs/pup/releases/download/${PUP_VERSION}/pup_linux_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin pup
      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pup
    fi
    pup --version
    
    Do not skip — proceed only once pup --version succeeds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 8d ago First seen · 271 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 17da5ca2425e

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agent-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/agent-skills (165 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,335 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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