azure-work

azure-work is a skill for Claude Code from ahmadharis/agentskills. It costs 128 tokens per session (5,768 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A workflow for handling Azure DevOps work items, which are tracked tasks such as bugs, features, or backlog entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Browsing open items, starting work from a specific item, creating items, and changing fields such as status, priority, title, description, or tags.
Why use it?
It keeps coding work connected to the team's Azure DevOps board and avoids manually finding, creating, or updating tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the agentskills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Browsing open items, starting work from a specific item, creating items, and changing fields such as status, priority, title, description, or tags.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmadharis/agentskills/azure-work
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ahmadharis/agentskills --skill azure-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmadharis/agentskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,768 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00128 $0.05768
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.02884
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00577

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7b4ec8b427b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

azure-work scanned grade D with 3 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 8d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Linux**: `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- **Linux**: `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Linux**: `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`
skills/azure-work/SKILL.md · 598 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 598 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure DevOps Work Item Workflow

Browse, pick up, implement, create, and update Azure DevOps work items.

Invocation

Mode Command Behavior
Browse /azure-work List open work items, user picks one
Direct /azure-work <number> Go straight to that work item
Create /azure-work create Create a new work item
Update /azure-work update <number> Update an existing work item's fields

Prerequisites

Verify az CLI is available before proceeding. Run:

az --version

If the command fails, inform the user how to install it:

  • macOS: brew install azure-cli
  • Windows: winget install --exact --id Microsoft.AzureCLI
  • Linux: curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

Windows shell requirement: All commands in this skill use bash syntax (sed, mktemp, curl, etc.). On Windows, run in Git Bash or WSL — PowerShell and cmd are not supported.

Then ensure the Azure DevOps extension is installed:

az extension add --name azure-devops

Setup (First Run Only)

On first invocation, the skill needs Azure CLI authentication and a backlog URL.

1. Verify Azure CLI Authentication

az account show

If not authenticated, run az login --allow-no-subscriptions which opens the browser for Azure AD OAuth. No PAT tokens or stored credentials are needed.

2. Check for Configuration

Check if the ADO_BACKLOG_URL environment variable is set. If it IS set, ADO_ORG and ADO_PROJECT should also be available (and ADO_TEAM if the URL contained a team) — skip to the Workflow section.

If ADO_BACKLOG_URL is NOT set, prompt the user:

"What's your Azure DevOps backlog URL?" (e.g., https://dev.azure.com/org/project/_backlogs/backlog/team/Backlog%20items)

Note: The URL may or may not include a team segment. Both formats are valid:

  • With team: https://dev.azure.com/org/project/_backlogs/backlog/team/Backlog%20items
  • Without team: https://dev.azure.com/org/project/_backlogs/backlog/Backlog%20items
  • Board URL also accepted: https://dev.azure.com/org/project/_boards/board/t/team/Backlog%20items

Read the full file on GitHub · 598 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 598 lines · 128 tokens per session scan D 7b4ec8b427b6

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azure-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository ahmadharis/agentskills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 5,768 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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