What is azure-pipelines-validator?

A checker for Azure DevOps pipeline YAML files. It reviews files such as azure-pipelines.yml for syntax, security concerns, and recommended practices.

Use it to validate, lint, audit, or review an existing Azure Pipelines file, including checks for syntax, security, and best-practice issues.

It helps identify why a pipeline fails or where its configuration may be unsafe or poorly structured before changes are merged.

azure-pipelines-validator — Skill for Claude Code by akin-ozer

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 akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills --skill azure-pipelines-validator

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills/azure-pipelines-validator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills/azure-pipelines-validator/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,459 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

Socket fail 28 Mar 2026
Snyk pass 28 Mar 2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high System Prompt Leakage · line 181
Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.

Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00025	$0.01459
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.00730
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00292
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00146

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6f2971f08868, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-pipelines-validator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/check_best_practices.py, scripts/check_security.py, scripts/python_wrapper.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- `curl-pipe-shell`

devops-skills-plugin/skills/azure-pipelines-validator/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Pipelines Validator

Use this skill to validate Azure DevOps pipeline YAML (azure-pipelines.yml / azure-pipelines.yaml) with local scripts first, then escalate to docs only when local output is not enough.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the user asks things like:

"Validate my azure-pipelines.yml."
"Why is this Azure pipeline YAML failing?"
"Run a security scan on this Azure DevOps pipeline."
"Check this pipeline for best-practice issues."
"Review this pipeline in CI before merge."

Do not use this skill for pipeline generation from scratch. Use azure-pipelines-generator for that.

Deterministic Path Setup (No Ambiguity)

Run from any directory using explicit absolute paths:

REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"
SKILL_DIR="$REPO_ROOT/devops-skills-plugin/skills/azure-pipelines-validator"
PIPELINE_FILE="$REPO_ROOT/azure-pipelines.yml"

If REPO_ROOT is empty, stop and ask for the repository root path. Do not guess paths.

Validate one file:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE"

Auto-detect from current directory (up to depth 3):

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh"

If auto-detect returns multiple files, rerun with one explicit file path.

Local-First Execution Model

Preflight

Confirm bash and python3 are available.
Confirm target file exists.

Run local validator

Default full pass:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE"

Syntax only:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE" --syntax-only

Best practices only:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE" --best-practices

Security only:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE" --security-only

Strict mode (warnings fail):

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/validate_azure_pipelines.sh" "$PIPELINE_FILE" --strict

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

21 files 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.

10d ago First seen · 203 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 6f2971f08868

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-pipelines-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills (307 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,459 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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