Datadog App Agent Skill

Guides developers building Datadog Apps with TypeScript, React, the @datadog/apps scaffolder, and @datadog/vite-plugin. Use when a user wants to scaffold, run, debug, upgrade, build, upload, publish, upload without publishing (draft upload), add an upload-no-publish script, set up CI/CD, use OAuth or API/application key auth, trigger/poll Workflow Automation, choose DDSQL or Action Catalog for backend data access, or query app datastores with DDSQL, including backend function troubleshooting.

10k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

147

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills --skill datadog-app

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Datadog Apps

Use this skill when a developer is building a Datadog Apps project with TypeScript, React, published packages, and the normal production Datadog site. If the user is modifying Datadog platform packages or testing package source changes, use a platform-engineer-oriented workflow instead.

Overview

Datadog Apps are locally developed web apps built with React and TypeScript or JavaScript. Use Apps when a project needs source control, code review, CI/CD, multi-engineer collaboration, AI-assisted local development, custom UI or logic, or backend code that integrates with services beyond low-code App Builder. Apps share App Builder's permissions model and can be embedded in Datadog surfaces such as dashboards and the Internal Developer Portal.

Reference Routing

Read only the reference needed for the user's task:

| User task | Read |

| --- | --- |

| Create, scaffold, configure prerequisites, or run locally | references/getting-started.md |

| Build, upload, publish, upload without publishing, add upload-no-publish script, configure Datadog site, or understand upload output | references/build-upload-publish.md |

| Add or update GitHub Actions deployment | references/cicd.md |

| Trigger or poll Workflow Automation from a backend function | references/workflow-http-trigger.md |

| Get started querying data from a Datadog App | references/querying-data/getting-started.md |

| Understand or configure Action Catalog connections | references/querying-data/connections.md |

| Query Datadog App datastores with DDSQL | references/querying-data/ddsql/datastores.md |

| Upgrade Datadog Apps dependencies or compare with a freshly scaffolded app | references/upgrading.md |

| Diagnose OAuth, API/application key auth, upload, Node, site, or backend function failures | references/troubleshooting.md |

Boundaries

After scaffolding or when working inside an existing app, read the app project's AGENTS.md before making changes.
For backend function implementation details, rely on the generated app project's AGENTS.md; this skill only covers local development auth choices and troubleshooting.
Preserve the app project's existing package manager, scripts, Datadog site, and repository conventions.
Do not cover Datadog package/platform development in this skill.
Low-code App Builder to Datadog Apps migration guidance is future work. Do not invent a migration process yet.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

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