What is azure-devops-pipeline-advisor?

An Azure DevOps guide for designing YAML pipelines, which automate building, testing, and deploying software. It covers pipelines with multiple stages, environments, and reusable templates.

Use it to build or improve CI/CD in Azure DevOps, including deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

It helps turn a deployment process into an organized workflow with clear dependencies, approvals, security settings, caching, and post-deployment checks.

azure-devops-pipeline-advisor — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by kha

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 khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection --skill azure-devops-pipeline-advisor

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,300 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

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

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	$0.00100	$0.02300
Opus 5	$0.00050	$0.01150
Sonnet 5	$0.00020	$0.00460
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00230

Measured 9d ago against content hash da4183467a5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-devops-pipeline-advisor 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sf https://myapp-${{ parameters.environment }}.azurewebsites.net/health && break

dev-skills/azure-devops-pipeline-advisor/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conseiller Azure DevOps Pipelines

Workflow en étapes

Qualifier le besoin — CI seul, CD seul, CI/CD complet ? Mono-repo ou multi-repo ? Type d'artefact (binaire, image Docker, package NuGet/npm) ? Environnements cibles (dev / staging / prod) ?
Choisir la stratégie de déclenchement — trigger pour push/merge, pr pour pull request, schedules pour planifié, resources.pipelines pour pipeline-en-aval.
Concevoir le graphe stages → jobs → steps — Identifier les parallélisations possibles, les dépendances (dependsOn), les conditions de déploiement.
Extraire les templates — Tout bloc dupliqué entre stages/pipelines devient un template YAML paramétré.
Sécuriser — Variable Groups liés à Key Vault, Service Connections à droits minimaux, Approvals sur les environments prod.
Valider et optimiser — Activer le cache, mesurer la durée de chaque job, ajouter un health check post-déploiement.

Critères de décision clés

Situation	Recommandation
Déploiement prod nécessite une validation humaine	`environment` avec Approvals dans Azure DevOps UI
Build identique sur plusieurs environnements	Template de job paramétré (`templates/build.yml`)
Secrets (connexion DB, API key)	Variable Group lié à Azure Key Vault
Temps de build > 5 min à cause des dépendances	`Cache@2` sur dossier NuGet/npm
Multi-repo (code + infra séparés)	`resources.repositories` + checkout multiple
Déploiement par rolling / blue-green	Strategy `rolling` ou `canary` dans le job deployment

Structure de référence CI/CD complète

# azure-pipelines.yml
trigger:
  branches:
    include: [main, release/*]
  paths:
    exclude: [docs/*, '*.md']

pr:
  branches:
    include: [main]

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

variables:
  - group: common-vars          # Variable Group partagé
  - name: buildConfiguration
    value: Release
  - name: dotnetVersion
    value: '8.0.x'

stages:
  - stage: Build
    displayName: Build & Test
    jobs:
      - job: BuildJob
        steps:
          - task: Cache@2
            inputs:
              key: 'nuget | "$(Agent.OS)" | **/packages.lock.json'
              restoreKeys: 'nuget | "$(Agent.OS)"'
              path: $(NUGET_PACKAGES)
            displayName: Cache NuGet

          - task: UseDotNet@2
            inputs:
              version: $(dotnetVersion)

          - script: dotnet restore --locked-mode
            displayName: Restore (locked)

          - script: dotnet build -c $(buildConfiguration) --no-restore
            displayName: Build

          - script: |
              dotnet test -c $(buildConfiguration) --no-build \
                --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" \
                --results-directory $(Agent.TempDirectory)/TestResults
            displayName: Tests

          - task: PublishCodeCoverageResults@2
            inputs:
              summaryFileLocation: '$(Agent.TempDirectory)/TestResults/**/coverage.cobertura.xml'

          - task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
            inputs:
              PathtoPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
              ArtifactName: drop

  - stage: DeployDev
    displayName: Deploy → Dev
    dependsOn: Build
    condition: and(succeeded(), eq(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], 'refs/heads/main'))
    jobs:
      - deployment: DeployDev
        environment: dev
        strategy:
          runOnce:
            deploy:
              steps:
                - template: templates/deploy-steps.yml
                  parameters:
                    environment: dev

  - stage: DeployStaging
    displayName: Deploy → Staging
    dependsOn: DeployDev
    jobs:
      - deployment: DeployStaging
        environment: staging          # Approval configuré dans l'UI
        strategy:
          runOnce:
            deploy:
              steps:
                - template: templates/deploy-steps.yml
                  parameters:
                    environment: staging

  - stage: DeployProd
    displayName: Deploy → Production
    dependsOn: DeployStaging
    condition: and(succeeded(), startsWith(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], 'refs/heads/release/'))
    jobs:
      - deployment: DeployProd
        environment: production       # Approval obligatoire
        strategy:
          runOnce:
            deploy:
              steps:
                - template: templates/deploy-steps.yml
                  parameters:
                    environment: production

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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.

9d ago First seen · 265 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A da4183467a5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-devops-pipeline-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection (22 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,300 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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