datadog-cli
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 2, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill instructs the agent to download and execute code from a third-party NPM package
@leoflores/datadog-cliusingnpx. This package is not an official release from the service provider. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: All skill capabilities are implemented via shell commands. The workflow for updating dashboards in
references/dashboards.mdinvolves capturing JSON data into shell variables and then interpolating those variables back into new shell commands, which creates a risk of command injection if the data contains malicious shell characters. - [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The skill uses
jqto dynamically parse and manipulate JSON data at runtime, then passes the resulting strings as arguments to shell commands. This pattern of dynamic command construction is susceptible to manipulation by malformed or malicious input data. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest and display untrusted data from external Datadog logs and metrics, which could potentially contain adversarial instructions for the agent.
- Ingestion points:
logs search,logs tail,logs trace,logs context, andlogs patternscommands (found inSKILL.mdandreferences/logs-commands.md). - Boundary markers: None present; there are no instructions to the agent to ignore or delimit embedded text in log messages.
- Capability inventory: Shell command execution via
npx, environment variable access for API keys, and file system writes via the--outputflag. - Sanitization: No evidence of data sanitization or escaping of log/metric content before display or reuse in commands.
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