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.
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/vscode/azure-pipelinesnpx skills add microsoft/vscode --skill azure-pipelinesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscodeWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/azure-pipelines)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/azure-pipelines"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/vscode/azure-pipelines.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00044 | $0.03155 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.01577 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00631 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00315 |
Grade D, and why
azure-pipelines scanned grade D with 3 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 4d 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- azure-pipelines — 97% identical, 5 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Validating Azure Pipeline Changes
When modifying Azure DevOps pipeline files (YAML files in build/azure-pipelines/), you can validate changes locally using the Azure CLI before committing. This avoids the slow feedback loop of pushing changes, waiting for CI, and checking results.
Prerequisites
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Check if Azure CLI is installed:
az --versionIf not installed, install it:
# macOS brew install azure-cli # Windows (PowerShell as Administrator) winget install Microsoft.AzureCLI # Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash -
Check if the DevOps extension is installed:
az extension show --name azure-devopsIf not installed, add it:
az extension add --name azure-devops -
Authenticate:
az login az devops configure --defaults organization=https://dev.azure.com/monacotools project=Monaco
VS Code Main Build
The main VS Code build pipeline:
- Organization:
monacotools - Project:
Monaco - Definition ID:
111 - URL: https://dev.azure.com/monacotools/Monaco/_build?definitionId=111
VS Code Insider Scheduled Builds
Two Insider builds run automatically on a scheduled basis:
- Morning build: ~7:00 AM CET
- Evening build: ~7:00 PM CET
These scheduled builds use the same pipeline definition (111) but run on the main branch to produce Insider releases.
Queueing a Build
Use the queue command to queue a validation build:
# Queue a build on the current branch
node .github/skills/azure-pipelines/azure-pipeline.ts queue
# Queue with a specific source branch
node .github/skills/azure-pipelines/azure-pipeline.ts queue --branch my-feature-branch
# Queue with custom parameters
node .github/skills/azure-pipelines/azure-pipeline.ts queue --parameter "VSCODE_BUILD_WEB=false" --parameter "VSCODE_PUBLISH=false"
# Parameter value with spaces
node .github/skills/azure-pipelines/azure-pipeline.ts queue --parameter "VSCODE_BUILD_TYPE=Product Build"
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 323 lines · 44 tokens per session scan D b638a34080c0
azure-pipelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (190,808 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,155 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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