quickstart

datadog-agentic-plugins

A curated library of agentic plugins and skills for Claude that guide prospects and customers through setting up, instrumenting, and validating a Datadog proof of concept across any tech stack.

Each plugin represents a technology domain — an infrastructure platform, a programming language, a database engine, or a message queue. Each skill within a plugin is a focused, version-aware procedure that Claude can execute: provisioning a cluster, installing the Datadog Agent, instrumenting a Spring Boot app, enabling Database Monitoring, or validating that telemetry is flowing.

Prospects pick the plugins that match their stack. Claude reads the relevant skills, adapts to their specific versions, and walks them through setup step by step — from zero to traces, metrics, and logs in Datadog. Disclaimer: this marketplace is not endorsed by Datadog - the plugins are unofficial.

Table of Contents

• Who This Is For
• How to use this marketplace and plugins with Claude Code
• Architecture Overview
• Plugin Categories
• Full Repository Structure
• How It Works: Composing a Stack
• Naming Conventions
• Dependency Model
• Skill Folder Anatomy
• Version Handling
• Contributing
  • Adding a New Plugin
  • Adding a New Skill to an Existing Plugin
  • Writing Reference Variants
  • Writing Validation Scripts
  • Building Sample App Assets
• Design Principles

Who This Is For

Prospects and customers use this repository during a Datadog PoC. You select the plugins that match your infrastructure, languages, databases, and queues. Claude loads the relevant skills and guides you through setup, instrumentation, and validation — adapted to your exact versions and configuration.

Datadog Solutions Engineers contribute to this repository. You author and maintain the plugins, skills, reference variants, validation scripts, and sample applications. Each contribution makes the PoC experience faster and more reliable for the next prospect. See the Contributing section for how to add or improve plugins and skills.

How to use this marketplace and plugins with Claude Code

Add the plugin:

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/jek-bao-choo/datadog-agentic-plugins 

Start Claude then add the plugin

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/jek-bao-choo/datadog-agentic-plugins

/plugin install quickstart@datadog-agentic-plugins

/reload-plugins

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Architecture Overview

The repository is a Claude Code marketplace registered via .claude-plugin/marketplace.json at the repo root. Each plugin is a directory with its own .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest (required by Claude Code) and a PLUGIN.md overview (a convention for this marketplace).

datadog-agentic-plugins/
  .claude-plugin/
    marketplace.json       # Marketplace registry — lists all available plugins
  {plugin-name}/
    .claude-plugin/
      plugin.json          # Required — Claude Code plugin manifest (JSON)
    PLUGIN.md              # Convention — plugin overview, category, dependencies, versions
    skills/                # Required — at least one skill
      skill-name/
        SKILL.md           # Entry point — version matrix, routing logic, core instructions
        references/        # Version-variant instruction docs Claude reads into context
        scripts/           # Validation and setup automation Claude executes
        assets/            # Deployable sample apps, schemas, config files the prospect runs
    commands/              # Optional — slash commands (.md files)
    hooks/                 # Optional — event-driven automation (hooks.json)
    agents/                # Optional — subagent definitions (.md files)
    .mcp.json              # Optional — MCP server integrations

A plugin represents a technology domain. It groups related skills and declares dependencies on other plugins. The .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest is required for Claude Code to discover and load the plugin. The PLUGIN.md file is a supplementary convention specific to this marketplace — it provides category, dependency, and version information that Claude reads and interprets.