agent-observability-trace-rca
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jun 19, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses the
pupCLI tool via Bash to interact with Datadog services. It instructs the agent to construct commands using user-provided strings forml_appandeval_name. This pattern creates a potential surface for command injection if the agent executes these identifiers without proper sanitization in the shell environment. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: By design, the skill retrieves and processes sensitive production telemetry, including full conversation histories (
messages), retrieved documents, and metadata from LLM observability traces. This production data is brought into the agent's context for analysis. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is susceptible to indirect prompt injection (Category 8) because it processes production traces which may contain adversarial instructions.
- Ingestion points: Reads
messages,input,output, anddocumentsfields from production traces via theget_llmobs_span_contenttool. - Boundary markers: Absent. The skill does not instruct the agent to use specific delimiters or ignore instructions within the retrieved content.
- Capability inventory: Execution of shell commands via the
bashtool (usingpup) and various MCP tool calls to Datadog APIs. - Sanitization: None described. The skill performs no filtering or validation of trace content before it is analyzed by the agent.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill instructions reference an official Datadog MCP server URL and the
pupCLI tool. These are well-known technology resources from the authoring organization (datadog-labs) and are used for their intended observability functions.
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