ado-init

ado-init is a skill for Claude Code from charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev. It costs 22 tokens per session (3,917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive command that sets up Azure DevOps details in CLAUDE.md, including the organization, project, and team.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect configuration details and optionally set up the Azure DevOps tool connection.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project information and working conventions needed to use Azure DevOps correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ai-ado plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to collect configuration details and optionally set up the Azure DevOps tool connection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/ado-init
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 charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill ado-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-ado, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,917 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 12 findings, 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 Privilege Escalation · line 211
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 365
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 25
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 33
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 41
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 49
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 57
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 65
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 76
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 87
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 94
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 101
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.03917
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01567
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00783
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00392

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 92e2ff4c3c73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ado-init 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 1mo 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-init/SKILL.md · 418 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 418 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure DevOps Init

Initialize Azure DevOps configuration by creating or updating CLAUDE.md with your organization, project, and team settings, and optionally configuring the Azure DevOps MCP server.

Instructions

CRITICAL: This command MUST NOT accept any arguments. If the user provided any text, organization names, project names, or other arguments after this command (e.g., /ado-init myorg or /ado-init myorg/myproject), you MUST COMPLETELY IGNORE them. Do NOT use any organization names, project names, or other arguments that appear in the user's message. You MUST ONLY gather requirements through the interactive sequential prompts as specified below.

BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE: Begin with Phase 1 by asking for the organization name. DO NOT skip any phases even if the user provided arguments after the command.

Configure CLAUDE.md with Azure DevOps-specific settings that guide Claude Code when working with the Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP server tools. Detailed work item creation guidelines are provided by the ado-work-items skill.

Phase 1: Gather Azure DevOps Configuration

Collect Azure DevOps settings from the user in a sequential flow. Ask for each value and wait for the user's response before proceeding to the next.

Step 1 - Organization:

Simply output the following text as your response message and STOP (DO NOT call any tools, especially not AskUserQuestion):

"What is your Azure DevOps organization name? (This is the organization URL segment, e.g., 'contoso' in dev.azure.com/contoso)"

Wait for the user's next message with their organization name before proceeding.

Step 2 - Project:

After receiving the organization name, simply output the following text as your response message and STOP (DO NOT call any tools):

"What is your Azure DevOps project name?"

Wait for the user's next message with their project name before proceeding.

Step 3 - Team:

After receiving the project name, simply output the following text as your response message and STOP (DO NOT call any tools):

Read the full file on GitHub · 418 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 418 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 92e2ff4c3c73

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ado-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (35 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 3,917 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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