What is azure-devops-mcp AGENTS.md?

Instructions for using an Azure DevOps tool server, which connects an AI assistant to Microsoft's service for code, work tracking, builds, tests, wikis, and security alerts.

Use them to work with Azure DevOps projects, backlogs, work items, repositories, pull requests, pipelines, wiki pages, test plans, searches, and security alerts.

They give the assistant a defined way to check available tools and handle Azure DevOps tasks across different areas.

azure-devops-mcp AGENTS.md — Instructions file for Codex and OpenCode by magemaclean: Instructions for using an Azure DevOps tool server, wh

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.

agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/agents-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 898 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 898 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin fork From a forked repository.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00898	$0.00898
Opus 5	$0.00449	$0.00449
Sonnet 5	$0.00180	$0.00180
Haiku 4.5	$0.00090	$0.00090

Measured 4d ago against content hash fb7e377a7217, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-devops-mcp AGENTS.md 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 4d 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.

AGENTS.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure DevOps MCP Server - Agent Instructions

Overview

This MCP server provides tools for interacting with Azure DevOps. It exposes a thin abstraction layer over Azure DevOps REST APIs, letting you handle complex reasoning while the tools handle data access.

Key Principles

Simple & Focused: Each tool does one thing well. Use multiple tools for complex tasks.
Always Check Available Tools: Before attempting any Azure DevOps operation, check if a relevant tool exists.
Domain-Specific: Tools are organized by domains (core, work, work-items, repositories, pipelines, wiki, test-plans, search, advanced-security).

Available Domains

Tools are organized into these domains:

core: Projects, teams, identities
work: Iterations management
work-items: Backlogs, work items, comments, linking
repositories: Repos, pull requests, branches, commits
pipelines: Builds, definitions, releases
wiki: Wiki pages and content
test-plans: Test plans, cases, results
search: Search across code, wiki, work items
advanced-security: Security alerts

Common Workflows

Starting Any Task

First, list projects with core_list_projects to get the project name/ID
For team-specific operations, use core_list_project_teams to identify the team

Working with Work Items

Use wit_my_work_items to find user's work items
Use wit_get_work_item for details (use expand: "relations" to get child items)
Use wit_update_work_item for updates
Link work items with wit_work_items_link or link to PRs with wit_link_work_item_to_pull_request

Repository Operations

List repos: repo_list_repos_by_project
List PRs: repo_list_pull_requests_by_repo or repo_list_pull_requests_by_project
Get PR details: repo_get_pull_request_by_id (use includeWorkItemRefs: true for linked work items)
List PR threads/comments: repo_list_pull_request_threads and repo_list_pull_request_thread_comments

Pipeline Operations

List build definitions: build_get_definitions
Get builds: build_get_builds
Trigger builds: build_run_build
Get build logs: build_get_log or build_get_log_by_id

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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.

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azure-devops-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 898 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

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