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The DNS skills help agents work with Authoritative DNS zones and records in Datum Cloud. They add records, find out why a domain isn’t resolving, and move a domain in from another DNS provider. The troubleshooting steps are the same ones Patch, Datum’s own assistant, follows. Agents read live zone and record status through Datum MCP. The skills ship in the datum-dns Claude Code plugin. Installing it also installs the datum-cloud plugin, which runs Datum MCP. Install the datum-mcp binary first; see Install.

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Install

For other agents, copy the skill folders into your agent’s skills directory, and connect Datum MCP so the agent can read zone and record status.
Once installed, the skills activate automatically when you ask an agent to work with DNS on Datum. No further configuration needed.

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Capabilities

  • Find out why a domain isn’t resolving, checking domain verification, the zone, registrar delegation and then individual records, in that order
  • Name exactly which nameservers are missing at the registrar
  • Explain why a record isn’t live, or reports NotOwner or Conflict, and what has to change
  • Explain why a record managed by a Gateway, a connector or Datum itself won’t stay edited, and where the real change belongs
  • Add a record, checking first that no other record set already holds the name, and write it only after you approve it
  • Move a domain in from another provider with /datum-dns:move-zone. It checks DNSSEC before the nameserver cutover, previews the import, and asks before every write
  • Run the datumctl dns commands to create, list, change, export and delete zones and records

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How it relates to other Datum surfaces

  • Product docs: Authoritative DNS — the human-facing reference for public DNS zones and records
  • Datum MCP: Datum MCP — the live DNS tools the skills use to read zone and record status
  • datumctl: the datumctl dns plugin — the commands the skills run for changes you make from a terminal

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View the full skill

The skills live in the datum-dns plugin in the datum-cloud/dns-operator repo:

On GitHub

Browse the plugin, its skills, and the zone move command.

Troubleshooting procedures

The step-by-step procedures the skills load through Datum MCP.
Last modified on October 30, 2026