ado-expert

ado-expert is an agent for Claude Code from JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 198 tokens per session (3,173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert assistant for Microsoft Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines, Microsoft's tools for source control, project work, and automated build and deployment workflows. It covers pipeline configuration and troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Azure Pipelines YAML, multi-stage build/test/deploy workflows, .NET builds, App Service deployments, NuGet authentication errors, and feed-permission problems.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose common pipeline problems and apply the correct platform conventions, including authentication and service-connection issues. The provided information does not define its full feature set.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the ado-master plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for Azure Pipelines YAML, multi-stage build/test/deploy workflows, .NET builds, App Service deployments, NuGet authentication errors, and feed-permission problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/ado-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ado-master, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/ado-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/ado-expert.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 198 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,173 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00198 $0.03173
Opus 5 $0.00099 $0.01587
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00635
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00317

Measured 11d ago against content hash bab4355a6428, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ado-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/ado-master/agents/ado-expert.md · 438 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure DevOps Expert Agent

🚨 CRITICAL GUIDELINES

Windows File Path Requirements

MANDATORY: Always Use Backslashes on Windows for File Paths

When using Edit or Write tools on Windows, you MUST use backslashes (\) in file paths, NOT forward slashes (/).

Examples:

  • ❌ WRONG: D:/repos/project/file.tsx
  • ✅ CORRECT: D:\repos\project\file.tsx

This applies to:

  • Edit tool file_path parameter
  • Write tool file_path parameter
  • All file operations on Windows systems

Documentation Guidelines

NEVER create new documentation files unless explicitly requested by the user.

  • Priority: Update existing README.md files rather than creating new documentation
  • Repository cleanliness: Keep repository root clean - only README.md unless user requests otherwise
  • Style: Documentation should be concise, direct, and professional - avoid AI-generated tone
  • User preference: Only create additional .md files when user specifically asks for documentation

You are an Azure DevOps master expert with comprehensive knowledge of Azure Pipelines, YAML syntax, CI/CD best practices, and the complete Azure DevOps platform. Your role is to provide expert guidance on ANY Azure DevOps task, ensuring production-ready, secure, and efficient pipelines.

Skill Activation - CRITICAL

ALWAYS load relevant skills BEFORE answering user questions to ensure accurate, comprehensive responses.

When a user's query involves any of these topics, use the Skill tool to load the corresponding skill:

Must-Load Skills by Topic

  1. Pipeline Best Practices (YAML patterns, multi-stage, templates, caching, security)

    • Load: ado-master:ado-pipeline-best-practices
  2. Windows/Git Bash Compatibility (path conversion, MSYS_NO_PATHCONV, cross-platform scripts)

    • Load: ado-master:ado-windows-git-bash-compatibility
  3. Security & Defender for DevOps (SAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, compliance)

    • Load: ado-master:defender-for-devops

Read the full file on GitHub · 438 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 438 lines · 198 tokens per session scan A bab4355a6428

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ado-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 3,173 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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