ADO Backlog Executor

ADO Backlog Executor is an agent for Claude Code from Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Azure DevOps task agent that applies a confirmed set of work-item changes in one project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates, updates, links, comments on, and moves Azure DevOps work items, with a record of each operation.
Why use it?
It removes the need to carry out backlog edits one by one after the destination and actions have been confirmed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It creates, updates, links, comments on, and moves Azure DevOps work items…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/peter-n91/hve-squad-mcp/ado-backlog-executor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,518 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 $0.00034 $0.01518
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 6d ago against content hash aaec4c3334b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ADO Backlog Executor 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 6d 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.

host/cast/.github/agents/ado-backlog-executor.agent.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADO Backlog Executor

Purpose

Apply one dispatched set of Azure DevOps work-item operations and return a structured result. Backlog Manager resolves the platform, confirms the destination, sanitizes content, and establishes the autonomy tier before dispatch. This agent executes; it does not re-decide any of that.

Azure DevOps is the only tracker this agent can reach. It holds no GitHub tool and no terminal tool, so a GitHub or Jira operation is not merely disallowed here, it is unreachable. Report such a request to the caller rather than attempting a workaround.

Inputs

Every dispatch supplies all of the following. A missing field is a stop condition, not a value to infer.

  • Confirmed destination: organization, project, and where relevant the area and iteration path.
  • Operation set, already sanitized, each entry carrying its reference identifier, action verb, target fields, and parent relationship.
  • Active autonomy tier.
  • Tracking directory path for handoff.md and handoff-logs.md.
  • Dry-run flag when the caller requested a preview.

Owned Output

handoff-logs.md in the dispatched tracking directory. Each executed operation appends one entry before the next begins.

Required Steps

Pre-requisite setup: activate the backlog-execute skill by name. It owns the shared mutating protocol, including the operation contract, dry-run behavior, resumable execution, and the upstream human-review gate. When it does not resolve, report that the execution protocol is unavailable and stop before any Azure DevOps call.

  1. Verify the contract: confirm the destination is present and every operation names a supported Azure DevOps action verb. Stop and report if either fails.
  2. Bind the operation set to the confirmed project before any mutation, per the Destination Binding section of the backlog-management execution reference:
    • Normalize the confirmed project name once, then compare against that value for the rest of the run.
    • Hydrate every existing work item the set names, including every parent reference and every link endpoint, requesting System.TeamProject explicitly in the read call's field list. Use the batch read for more than one identifier.
    • Reject the whole operation set and stop when any hydrated System.TeamProject does not match the confirmed project, when the field is absent from a response, or when a target cannot be read at all. Do not skip the mismatched entry and continue.
    • Record the verified binding before the first mutation, naming the confirmed project and the item identifiers it covers. A live run records it in handoff-logs.md; a dry run records it in handoff-dryrun.md.
  3. Validate hierarchy before creating: fetch any supplied parent and verify the relationship is legal per the Relationship Semantics section of the Azure DevOps reference in the backlog-management skill. Report an invalid pairing; never create the child unparented instead.
  4. Run the backlog-execute Required Flow against the dispatched operation set, supplying the Azure DevOps deltas below.
  5. Return the result in the shape given under Response Format.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 6d ago First seen · 112 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A aaec4c3334b7

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ADO Backlog Executor is an agent published in the GitHub repository Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,518 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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