mcp-server-azure-devops: Skill for Claude Code

This skill is invoked when a loose idea requires more than one agent session to turn into a plan. It creates a stateful decision map in a markdown file, and drives the user through a sequence of tickets to resolve the open questions - which may require either prototyping, research or discussion.

The Decision Map

The decision map is a single compact Markdown file, one per planning effort, git-tracked alongside the project. It is the canonical artifact — the whole map is loaded as context into every session, so it must stay compact.

Assets created during tickets should be linked to from the map, not duplicated within it.

Structure

Numbered entries ("tickets"), each its own section keyed by its number:

## #1: Relational Or Non-Relational Database?

Blocked by: #<ticket-number>, #<ticket-number>
Type: Research | Prototype | Discuss

### Question

<question-here>

### Answer

<answer-here>

Each ticket must be sized to one 100K token agent session.

Ticket Types

There are three types of tickets:

• Research: Reading documentation, third-party API's, or local resources like knowledge bases. Creates a markdown summary as an asset. Use this when knowledge outside the current working directory is required.
• Prototype: Writing UI or logic code to test a hypothesis, or to explore a design space. Uses the /prototype skill. Creates a prototype as an asset. Use this when "how should it look" or "how should it behave" is the key question.
• Discuss: Conversation with the agent. Uses the /grilling and /domain-modelling skills. The default case.

Fog of war

The map is deliberately incomplete beyond the frontier. Your job is to investigate the frontier, and to resolve tickets in order to push the frontier forward. Push back the fog of war, one node at a time.

At some point, the fog of war should have been pushed back far enough that the path to the finish line is clear. At that point, no more tickets will be required and the decision map can be considered 'done'.