Sample skills and prompt patterns demonstrating how to use the Azure DevOps MCP Server with GitHub Copilot and agent-based workflows
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Get the team's Requirements-level backlog (Product Backlog Items and Bugs) filtered to Active items assigned to the current user. Shows parent/child hierarchy and sorts by priority. Use this skill when the user wants to see their backlog items, sprint assignments, or work they own on a team board.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
This skill retrieves and displays work items assigned to the user in Azure DevOps, organized by type and sorted by recently changed. It prompts for a project name or lists available projects if not provided, then fetches work item details and displays them in a formatted table with clickable links.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Get active work items for a team showing dependencies, priorities, and sprint assignments. Displays items that are blocking others, high priority items first, and items due this sprint. Shows parent/child hierarchy with Title, State, Priority, ChangedDate, Iteration Name, and Iteration End Date.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Summarize a single Azure DevOps work item (and its links and comments) by ID.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
List, inspect, and troubleshoot Azure DevOps pipeline builds. Shows recent builds for a pipeline definition, drills into a specific build's status and result, displays logs for failed steps, and lists the changes associated with a build.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
List and review Advanced Security alerts for an Azure DevOps repository. Shows dependency vulnerabilities, secret exposure, and code scanning findings with filtering by severity, state, and alert type.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
List, create, and assign iterations for Azure DevOps projects and teams.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
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