dt-dql-essentials

dt-dql-essentials is a skill for Claude Code from Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai. It costs 232 tokens per session (9,394 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to DQL, a pipeline-based query language whose commands are joined with vertical bars to filter, transform, and summarize data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, fix, or optimize DQL queries, including fetching data, working with fields and time series, navigating entity relationships, and applying filters or conditions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid DQL’s SQL-like syntax traps and reduce the amount of data each query scans, which can make queries faster and lower query costs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the dynatrace plugin — 33 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to write, fix, or optimize DQL queries, including fetching data, working with fields and time series, navigating entity relationships, and applying filters or conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai/dt-dql-essentials
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 Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-dql-essentials
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dynatrace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 232 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,394 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
  • Socket pass 13 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00232 $0.09394
Opus 5 $0.00116 $0.04697
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.01879
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00939

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2705fa39ef8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dt-dql-essentials 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 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.

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/dt-dql-essentials/SKILL.md · 462 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 462 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DQL Essentials Skill

DQL is a pipeline-based query language. Queries chain commands with | to filter, transform, and aggregate data. DQL has unique syntax that differs from SQL — load this skill before writing any DQL query.


When to Load References

Before working on specific tasks, load the relevant reference:

Task Required Reading
Field names, namespaces, data models, stability levels, query patterns references/semantic-dictionary.md
Query optimization — make a query faster / more efficient / cheaper, reduce consumption & scanned data (filter early, bucket filters, time ranges, field selection, sampling, cardinality) references/optimization.md
Smartscape topology navigation for discovering relationships between entities references/smartscape-topology-navigation.md
summarize and makeTimeseries patterns (bucketing, calendar months) references/summarization.md
Array and timeseries manipulation (arrayFilter, collectArray, iterative) references/iterative-expressions.md
Conditional logic (if/else chains), coalesce, string/date helpers references/useful-expressions.md
in operator (subquery), full @ time alignment unit table references/operators.md
matchesValue, matchesPhrase, matchesPattern, in() — string pattern matching, regex, array matching, wildcards, case sensitivity references/string-matching.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 462 lines

Files

What ships with it

32 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 462 lines · 232 tokens per session scan A 2705fa39ef8b

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dt-dql-essentials is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai (137 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 232 tokens to every session and 9,394 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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