azure-devops-rest

azure-devops-rest is a skill for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 90 tokens per session (442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing automation that uses the Azure DevOps REST API, an HTTP interface for working with Azure DevOps data and services. It covers work items, pipelines, repositories, packages, authentication, paging, and rate limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Querying or updating work items, triggering pipelines, accessing repositories and artifacts, handling pagination and 429 responses, and building Azure DevOps integrations.
Why use it?
It helps scripts handle authentication, large result sets, API versions, updates, and temporary throttling correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Querying or updating work items, triggering pipelines, accessing repositories and artifacts, handling pagination and 429 responses, and building Azure DevOps integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/azure-devops-rest
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/ivegamsft/basecoat/azure-devops-rest
Any agent
npx skills add ivegamsft/basecoat --skill azure-devops-rest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00090 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash ff26bea69400, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-devops-rest 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 3d 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.

skills/azure-devops-rest/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Azure DevOps REST API Skill

Proven patterns for Azure DevOps REST API automation: auth, pagination, throttling, work items, pipelines, and repos.

Reference Files

File Contents
references/pipelines.md Auth (PAT + OIDC), API versioning, pagination, throttling, work items, repos, pipelines
references/extensions.md Artifacts/packages, service hooks, extension development, common pitfalls

Auth Quick Reference

Method When to Use
PAT (Basic auth) Scripts, local development
System.AccessToken / Managed Identity Azure Pipelines, Azure-hosted automation

Always use api-version=7.1. PAT expiry ≤ 90 days; store in Key Vault.

Common Pitfalls

Pitfall Fix
Wrong Content-Type on PATCH Use application/json-patch+json
Missing api-version Always include ?api-version=7.1
Unhandled 429 Check Retry-After header; exponential backoff
No pagination Always check x-ms-continuationtoken

Key Limits

  • WIQL: max 20,000 work item IDs
  • Batch get: max 200 IDs per request
  • Default page size: ~200 items (use $top)
Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 49 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A ff26bea69400

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-devops-rest is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 442 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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