What is ado-create-task?

An interactive command for creating a Task in Azure DevOps, Microsoft’s system for tracking software work, under an existing User Story.

Use it to collect task information and add a child Task to an Azure DevOps User Story.

It ensures the task follows the project’s rules and gathers the needed details instead of relying on incomplete command-line input.

ado-create-task — Skill by charlesjones-dev

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 skills/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/ado-create-task

Any agent

npx skills add charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill ado-create-task

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

When invoked 2,721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

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	$0.00025	$0.02721
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.01360
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00544
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00272

Measured 2d ago against content hash 45d32e43ca23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ado-create-task 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 2d 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.

plugins/ai-ado/skills/ado-create-task/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Azure DevOps Task

Interactively create a new Task work item as a child of an existing User Story in Azure DevOps using the organization's configured conventions and guidelines.

Instructions

CRITICAL: This command MUST NOT accept any arguments. If the user provided any text, task titles, descriptions, IDs, or other arguments after this command (e.g., /ado-create-task "My Task" or /ado-create-task 123), you MUST COMPLETELY IGNORE them. Do NOT use any task titles, descriptions, IDs, or other arguments that appear in the user's message. You MUST ONLY gather requirements through the interactive prompts as specified below.

BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE: Validate Azure DevOps configuration in CLAUDE.md, then begin gathering task information. DO NOT skip these steps even if the user provided arguments after the command.

This command creates a Task work item following the organization's Azure DevOps conventions defined in CLAUDE.md.

Phase 1: Validate Azure DevOps Configuration

Before proceeding with task creation, verify that Azure DevOps configuration exists:

Use the Read tool to read CLAUDE.md from the project root

If the file doesn't exist OR doesn't contain an "## Azure DevOps" section:

Display the following error message:

❌ Azure DevOps configuration not found

CLAUDE.md does not contain Azure DevOps configuration.

Please run /ado-init first to configure Azure DevOps settings for this project.

The /ado-init command will:
- Configure your organization, project, and team
- Set up Area Path and Iteration Path defaults
- Define naming conventions and work item guidelines
- Optionally configure the Azure DevOps MCP server

STOP and do not proceed further

If Azure DevOps section exists:
- Parse the CLAUDE.md content to extract configuration values:
  - Organization name (look for text after 'specify the organization as "')
  - Project name (look for text after 'the project as "')
  - Team name (look for text after 'the team as "')
  - Area Path (look for text after 'Area Path" set to "')
  - Iteration Path (look for text after 'Iteration Path" set to "')
- Store these values for use in task creation
- Proceed to Phase 2

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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.

2d ago First seen · 286 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 45d32e43ca23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ado-create-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (34 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,721 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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