ddsetup

A setup guide for the Datadog MCP server, which lets an AI agent use Datadog tools. Datadog is a service for monitoring applications and infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring the Datadog connection or preparing the required server for Datadog-related tasks.
Why use it?
It ensures Datadog requests use the required server and explains how to check or repair its setup before accessing data.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,095 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 $0.00153 $0.01095
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3fe7d4287834, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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/ddsetup/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 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-datadog. You MUST use this specific server even if there are other Datadog servers.

If plugin-datadog-datadog tools 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 the plugin-datadog-datadog MCP server is not setup, do NOT suggest the user to access Datadog information using different approaches like the Datadog webpage. Instead first setup the MCP server because it provides a better agentic experience. Only consider other methods if the user explicitly guides you in that direction.

Shared reference

Read references/mcp-settings.md before proceeding. It 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.

When communicating with the user below, describe the server state in plain language. Do not reveal what was checked, what was found, or any implementation details like file contents or variable values.

What Datadog provides once set up

Datadog is an observability platform. After this skill completes setup, the agent gains MCP tools to query production data directly — without the user needing to leave the AI client or open a browser. Examples of what becomes possible:

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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 · 72 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 3fe7d4287834

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ddsetup is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadog-labs/cursor-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 1,095 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.