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macOS

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brew install --cask coterm

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overview

Package summary

CLI tool by Datadog for terminal recording and approvals

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

ddcoterm

history

Project history and usage

coterm is Datadog's CoTerm command-line utility for recording terminal sessions and adding validation or approval checks around terminal commands.

Project history

Datadog announced CoTerm in preview on 2024-06-26 as a tool for safer command-line workflows during operations and incident response. Datadog's documentation describes CoTerm as a CLI utility that records terminal sessions, analyzes recordings in Datadog, and adds a validation layer to terminal commands.

The Homebrew cask metadata records coterm version 1.0.0 and the vendor binary name ddcoterm. The vendor-hosted macOS arm64 binary for that version reported a Last-Modified timestamp of 2025-03-13 when checked during this enrichment run.

Adoption history

Public adoption evidence is thin and mostly vendor-controlled. Datadog's announcement pointed users to macOS and Linux installation paths, while Homebrew cask distribution makes the macOS CLI available through a package-manager workflow.

How it is used

Datadog documents CoTerm for recording interactive terminal sessions, reviewing terminal sessions as replays, events, or logs, warning before risky commands, requiring approvals through Datadog Case Management for selected commands, and redacting sensitive data through Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner.

Why package nerds care

coterm is package-nerd interesting as a vendor CLI cask: it packages an operations and security workflow whose behavior depends on Datadog services, policy rules, and a local command shim rather than on a public source tree.

Timeline

2024: Datadog announces CoTerm preview on 2024-06-26.
2025: Datadog updates the CoTerm announcement on 2025-04-03.
2025: The version 1.0.0 macOS arm64 binary reports Last-Modified 2025-03-13.

Related projects

CoTerm integrates with Datadog terminal session review, Datadog Case Management, Log Explorer, Event Explorer, and Sensitive Data Scanner.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for coterm. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`ddcoterm`	binary	Homebrew cask binary	ddcoterm

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.0.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	cask:coterm
Version	1.0.0
Package manager	Homebrew Cask
Homepage	https://docs.datadoghq.com/coterm/
SHA-256	0eb8ae355b2a1fbae2912d7ce971d5e01177dffdcb356a399bee24db72ab5871
Download URL	https://coterm.datadoghq.com/coterm/1.0.0/29eab36/macos-arm64/ddcoterm
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/coterm.yml

Used sources

cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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