dd-account-setup

dd-account-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from datadog-labs/agent-skills. It costs 132 tokens per session (4,798 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup workflow for connecting a Datadog account to tools that manage monitoring. It checks API and application keys, confirms the account region, and can use sign-in when no usable credentials are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the first step before installing the Agent, enabling instrumentation, or performing other Datadog setup tasks.
Why use it?
It prevents setup failures caused by missing credentials, invalid keys, or using the wrong Datadog region. Other Datadog setup and instrumentation workflows can use the verified connection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it as the first step before installing the Agent, enabling instrumentation, or performing other Datadog setup tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadog-labs/agent-skills/dd-account-setup
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 dd-account-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,798 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 14 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 63
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 64
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 95
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 96
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 115
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 116
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 193
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 194
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 66
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 115
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 193
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 202
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 208
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 209
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00132 $0.04798
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.02399
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00960
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00480

Measured 10d ago against content hash d2b0e162f541, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dd-account-setup 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 10d 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.

It is a standalone guided flow: detect what already exists, and when nothing usable is found, sign in with **OAuth** (browser, PKCE + state) or create a new account (in-terminal, with a **generated** password saved to `.
dd-account-setup/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create / connect a Datadog account

This skill gets the user to a known-good state: a valid API key + application key, on the right region, validated against the Datadog API. It is the "step 0" that setup/instrumentation skills depend on — run it first, then hand off.

It is a standalone guided flow: detect what already exists, and when nothing usable is found, sign in with OAuth (browser, PKCE + state) or create a new account (in-terminal, with a generated password saved to .env), then turn that session into an API key. Everything runs as small inline bash + curl commands (OAuth also uses openssl) — no bundled scripts, no node; cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows via WSL/Git Bash).

This SKILL.md is the spine — it carries the short steps inline and routes to references/ for the heavy per-step machinery. Read a reference only when you reach the step that names it.

The flow at a glance

headless requested?  ──yes──▶  Step H: env keys only (OAuth needs a browser), validate, done
   │no (default — interactive)
   ▼
Step 1  Detect existing credentials (env)
   │
   ▼
Step 2  Determine region / site  (DD_SITE → validate; else IP-detect → confirm)
   │
   ▼
Step 3  Authenticate  — ask first (even if env keys were detected)   → references/authenticate.md
   │        └─ ASK: how to connect? ↴
   │            ├─ A. Use the detected env key (only if one exists) → validate → Step 5
   │            ├─ B. Sign in (I have an account) → OAuth (browser, PKCE + state) ──▶ Bearer token
   │            └─ C. Create a new account → Path C: auto in-terminal signup, generated password ──▶ then OAuth
   ▼
Step 4  Turn the OAuth session into an API key   → references/get-api-key.md
   │        (identity + region via /current_user; OAuth→retrieve most-recent key, app-key→create → write straight to .env; else guide to UI key page)
   ▼
Step 5  Load creds from .env, validate, hand off

Golden rule: never guess or fabricate an API key, app key, token, or site. Read what's in the environment, validate it, and if it isn't there, authenticate — do not proceed on assumptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 219 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A d2b0e162f541

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dd-account-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/agent-skills (168 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 4,798 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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