troubleshoot-ssi

troubleshoot-ssi is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from datadog-labs/agent-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (4,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic workflow for Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) on Kubernetes, where SSI adds Datadog tracing without application code changes. It investigates why instrumentation or traces are missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to debug uninstrumented pods, missing traces, tracer injection failures, or failed SSI verification checks.
Why use it?
It helps locate configuration, admission webhook, or initialization problems when the Agent and SSI are already set up but the expected traces do not appear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 169repo +5 15d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 52 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to debug uninstrumented pods, missing traces, tracer injection failures, or failed SSI verification checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadog-labs/agent-skills/troubleshoot-ssi
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 troubleshoot-ssi
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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,919 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 pass 1 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 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 YARA Match · line 97
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 48
    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 415
    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 $0.00052 $0.04919
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02459
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00984
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00492

Measured 11d ago against content hash 65968ac0b4dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshoot-ssi 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 11d 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.

PUP_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/datadog-labs/pup/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name"' | cut -d'"' -f4)
dd-apm/k8s-ssi/troubleshoot-ssi/SKILL.md · 427 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 427 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshoot APM SSI on Kubernetes

Triggers

Invoke this skill when the user expresses intent to:

  • Debug why a pod is not being instrumented
  • Investigate why traces are not appearing in Datadog
  • Diagnose admission webhook or init container injection failures
  • Follow up on failed checks from verify-ssi
  • Report that a specific service or pod has no traces

Do NOT invoke this skill if:

  • SSI has not been enabled yet — run enable-ssi first

Prerequisites

  • kubectl configured to target cluster — kubectl config current-context

pup-cli: check, install, and authenticate

Claude runs

pup --version

If not found, install it (OS-aware):

Claude runs

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

Check auth:

pup auth status

If not authenticated:

Claude runs

pup auth login

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

If no browser available: export DD_APP_KEY=<your-app-key>.


Context to resolve before acting

Variable How to resolve
AGENT_NAMESPACE Namespace where Datadog Agent is installed
APP_NAMESPACE Namespace of the application with missing traces
CLUSTER_NAME kubectl config current-context or spec.global.clusterName in datadog-agent.yaml
SERVICE_NAME tags.datadoghq.com/service label on the Deployment, or ask the user
ENV tags.datadoghq.com/env label on the Deployment, or ask the user
POD_NAME kubectl get pods -n <APP_NAMESPACE> — use the specific pod the user mentioned
DEPLOYMENT_NAME Check metadata.name in the Deployment manifest, or ask the user
APP_LABEL Check spec.selector.matchLabels.app in the Deployment manifest

Read the full file on GitHub · 427 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. 11d ago First seen · 427 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 65968ac0b4dd

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troubleshoot-ssi is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/agent-skills (169 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 4,919 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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