dd-symdb

dd-symdb is a skill for Claude Code from DataDog/pup. It costs 17 tokens per session (820 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Datadog symbol-search skill for finding classes and methods in instrumented services. It can show method signatures that are suitable for Live Debugger probes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search symbols by service, name, and version, view class or method names, inspect full API results, and find probe locations for debugging.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when locating the exact code methods where runtime inspection can be placed.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pup plugin — 12 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to search symbols by service, name, and version, view class…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadog/pup/dd-symdb
About the project

DataDog/pup is a command-line client that gives AI agents access to Datadog's observability platform. It lets agents retrieve and manage information across Datadog products such as metrics, logs, monitors, RUM, and security data, with structured output for automation.

DataDog/pup · 1,001 stars · on GitHub · datadoghq.com

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/pup --skill dd-symdb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataDog/pup

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 820 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.
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 $0.00017 $0.00820
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00410
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash 35c514f68f8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dd-symdb 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/dd-symdb/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Datadog Symbol Database

Search for classes and methods in instrumented services. Find probe-able method locations for use with the Live Debugger.

Prerequisites

pup must be installed:

brew tap datadog-labs/pack && brew install pup

Authentication

Authenticate via OAuth2 (recommended) or API keys:

# OAuth2 (recommended)
pup auth login

# Or use API keys
export DD_API_KEY="key" DD_APP_KEY="key" DD_SITE="datadoghq.com"

Usage

Names View

One scope name per line.

pup symdb search --service my-service --query "Controller" --view names

Probe Locations View

TYPE:METHOD(arg1, arg2, ...) signatures suitable for --probe-location in pup debugger probes create. Falls back to TYPE:METHOD when no argument info is available.

pup symdb search --service my-service --query "VetController" --view probe-locations

Full View

Raw JSON response from the API.

pup symdb search --service my-service --query "VetController" --view full

Filter by Version

pup symdb search --service my-service --query "handler" --version "v1.2.3" --view names

Combining with Debugger

Find methods then place probes:

# 1. Find probe-able methods
pup symdb search --service my-service --query "MyController" --view probe-locations

# 2. Place a probe on a discovered method (language auto-detected from symdb)
pup debugger probes create \
  --service my-service \
  --env production \
  --probe-location "com.example.MyController:handleRequest" \
  --template "handleRequest called with id={id}"

# Or use the full signature when multiple overloads exist
pup debugger probes create \
  --service my-service \
  --env production \
  --probe-location "com.example.MyController:handleRequest(int, java.lang.String)" \
  --template "handleRequest called with id={id}"

# 3. Stream events
pup debugger probes watch <PROBE_ID> --timeout 60 --limit 10

Options

Flag Description Default
--service Service name (required)
--query Search query, matches scope names None (lists all)
--version Service version filter None
--view Output view: full, names, probe-locations full

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 2d ago First seen · 117 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 35c514f68f8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dd-symdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository DataDog/pup (1,001 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 820 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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