ddsetup

ddsetup is a skill for Claude Code from datadog-labs/claude-code-plugin. It costs 139 tokens per session (1,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-time setup guide for the Datadog MCP server, which lets an agent use Datadog through connected tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks the server setup and reads the required configuration instructions when Datadog tools are not yet available.
Why use it?
It ensures the required Datadog connection is configured before handling Datadog requests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the datadog plugin — 5 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It checks the server setup and reads the required configuration instructions when Datadog tools are not yet available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadog-labs/claude-code-plugin/ddsetup
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/claude-code-plugin --skill ddsetup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadog-labs/claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install datadog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,512 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00139 $0.01512
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00605
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00151

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 37eb9fbd98e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ddsetup 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 2mo 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/ddsetup/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 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.

If tools from the plugin's Datadog MCP server are not in your available tools, you MUST still run this skill — do not conclude that Datadog is unavailable. Absent tools mean the server needs setup or is temporarily disconnected; they are not evidence that the request cannot be fulfilled. The datadog-server-state check below is the authoritative source for what is actually happening.

Accessing Datadog using other methods

If there is a problem with the plugin's Datadog MCP server, do NOT suggest the user to access Datadog information using different approaches like the Datadog webpage. Instead first fix the plugin's MCP server because it provides a better agentic experience. Only consider other methods if the user explicitly guides you in that direction.

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 procedure below.

Setup procedure

Check the datadog-server-state (see mcp-settings.md):

  • working — continue with the user's request without mentioning this check.
  • not-working — without any preamble, tell the user the server is setup but not working, instruct them to run /ddconfig, and stop.
  • not-setup — the server needs first-time setup. Do not attempt to gather data using a different approach. Do not attempt any further MCP calls: they will fail until setup is complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 2mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 37eb9fbd98e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ddsetup is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/claude-code-plugin (18 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 1,512 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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