ddconfig

A setup and troubleshooting guide for the plugin’s Datadog MCP server, which connects coding agents to Datadog monitoring and observability services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Changing the Datadog site or organization and diagnosing a server that is not responding.
Why use it?
It provides the required checks and configuration rules when the Datadog connection uses the wrong organization, domain, or stops responding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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 $0.00046 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 2d ago against content hash 54fe2e1d4eb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ddconfig 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 2d 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.

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.

skills/ddconfig/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog MCP Server

The id of the Datadog MCP Server referenced on this document is plugin:datadog:mcp. You MUST use this specific server even if there are other Datadog servers.

Shared reference

This is a hard gate, not a suggestion. You MUST actually read references/mcp-settings.md before proceeding and writing any user-facing text, asking any question, or performing any file edit suggested by this skill — even if you believe you already know its contents from a prior turn or a prior session. Do not answer from memory of Datadog site codes, domains, or file paths; the tables and path rules in that file are the only authoritative source, and they can differ from your general knowledge or from what you've seen in other contexts.

The references/mcp-settings.md file contains the datadog-server-state check, registration file location, editing rules, and site-to-domain mapping used by the flows below.

Entry flow

Check the datadog-server-state (see mcp-settings.md). Use the datadog://mcp/whoami resource on the plugin's Datadog MCP server as the MCP call (do NOT use any other Datadog MCP server). Do not output anything until the datadog-server-state and resource content are available, and proceed based on the results:

  • datadog-server-state=working and valid content — without any preamble, immediately show the user their current connection (from whoami): user name and email, organization name, and site (the dd_site value). Then let the user choose between using a different Datadog MCP domain or site or switching to a different Datadog organization.
  • datadog-server-state=not-setup — without any preamble, tell the user the plugin is not set up and instruct them to run /ddsetup, and stop.
  • datadog-server-state=not-working or not valid content — without any preamble, tell the user the server is configured but not working and go to the Troubleshooting Flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 86 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 54fe2e1d4eb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ddconfig is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/claude-code-plugin (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,503 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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