What is mcp-azure-devops CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for an MCP Azure DevOps server, a program that lets AI assistants work with Azure DevOps data and actions through a standard tool connection.

Use them when maintaining features for work items, repositories, pipelines, pull requests, projects, or teams in that server.

They explain the project layout, supported Azure DevOps areas, and development expectations before code is changed.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01878	$0.01878
Opus 5.5	$0.00751	$0.00751
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00376	$0.00376
Haiku 4.5	$0.00188	$0.00188

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1183030cd815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

mcp-azure-devops CLAUDE.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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Azure DevOps Server Guide

This guide helps AI assistants implement and modify the MCP Azure DevOps server codebase effectively.

1. Purpose & Overview

This MCP server enables AI assistants to interact with Azure DevOps by:

Connecting to Azure DevOps services via REST API and Python SDK
Exposing Azure DevOps data (work items, repositories, pipelines, PRs)
Providing tools to create and modify Azure DevOps objects
Including prompts for common workflows
Using PAT authentication for secure interactions

2. Project Structure

mcp-azure-devops/
├── docs/                      # API documentation
├── src/                       # Source code
│   └── mcp_azure_devops/      # Main package
│       ├── features/          # Feature modules
│       │   ├── projects/      # Project management features
│       │   ├── teams/         # Team management features 
│       │   └── work_items/    # Work item management features
│       │       ├── tools/     # Work item operation tools
│       │       ├── common.py  # Common utilities for work items
│       │       └── formatting.py # Formatting helpers
│       ├── utils/             # Shared utilities
│       ├── __init__.py        # Package initialization
│       └── server.py          # Main MCP server
├── tests/                     # Test suite
├── .env                       # Environment variables (not in repo)
├── CLAUDE.md                  # AI assistant guide
├── LICENSE                    # MIT License
├── pyproject.toml             # Project configuration
├── README.md                  # Project documentation
└── uv.lock                    # Package dependency locks

3. Core Concepts

Azure DevOps & MCP Integration

This project bridges two systems:

Azure DevOps Objects:
- Work items (bugs, tasks, user stories, epics)
- Repositories and branches
- Pull requests and code reviews
- Pipelines (build and release)
- Projects and teams
MCP Components:
- Tools: Action performers that modify data (like POST/PUT/DELETE endpoints)
- Prompts: Templates for guiding interactions

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 lines

Changes

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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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mcp-azure-devops CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Vortiago/mcp-azure-devops (79 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,878 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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