⭐ Azure DevOps MCP Server

Easily install the Azure DevOps MCP Server for VS Code or VS Code Insiders:

This TypeScript project provides a local MCP server for Azure DevOps, enabling you to perform a wide range of Azure DevOps tasks directly from your code editor.

🚨 Public Preview: This project is in public preview. Tools and features may change before general availability.

📄 Table of Contents

1. 📺 Overview
2. 🏆 Expectations
3. ⚙️ Supported Tools
4. 🔌 Installation & Getting Started
5. 📝 Troubleshooting
6. 🎩 Examples & Best Practices
7. 🙋‍♀️ Frequently Asked Questions
8. 📌 Contributing

📺 Overview

The Azure DevOps MCP Server brings Azure DevOps context to your agents. Try prompts like:

• "List my ADO projects"
• "List ADO Builds for 'Contoso'"
• "List ADO Releases for 'Contoso'"
• "List ADO Repos for 'Contoso'"
• "List test plans for 'Contoso'"
• "List teams for project 'Contoso'"
• "List iterations for project 'Contoso'"
• "List my work items for project 'Contoso'"
• "List work items in current iteration for 'Contoso' project and 'Contoso Team'"

🏆 Expectations

The Azure DevOps MCP Server is built from tools that are concise, simple, focused, and easy to use—each designed for a specific scenario. We intentionally avoid complex tools that try to do too much. The goal is to provide a thin abstraction layer over the REST APIs, making data access straightforward and letting the language model handle complex reasoning.

⚙️ Supported Tools

Interact with these Azure DevOps services:

🧿 Core

• core_list_project_teams: Retrieve a list of teams for the specified Azure DevOps project.
• core_list_projects: Retrieve a list of projects in your Azure DevOps organization.
• core_get_identity_ids: Retrieve Azure DevOps identity IDs for a list of unique names.

⚒️ Work

• work_list_team_iterations: Retrieve a list of iterations for a specific team in a project.
• work_create_iterations: Create new iterations in a specified Azure DevOps project.
• work_assign_iterations: Assign existing iterations to a specific team in a project.

📅 Work Items

• wit_my_work_items: Retrieve a list of work items relevant to the authenticated user.
• wit_list_backlogs: Retrieve a list of backlogs for a given project and team.
• wit_list_backlog_work_items: Retrieve a list of backlogs for a given project, team, and backlog category.
• wit_get_work_item: Get a single work item by ID.
• wit_get_work_items_batch_by_ids: Retrieve a list of work items by IDs in batch.
• wit_update_work_item: Update a work item by ID with specified fields.
• wit_create_work_item: Create a new work item in a specified project and work item type.
• wit_list_work_item_comments: Retrieve a list of comments for a work item by ID.
• wit_get_work_items_for_iteration: Retrieve a list of work items for a specified iteration.
• wit_add_work_item_comment: Add a comment to a work item by ID.
• wit_add_child_work_items: Create one or more child work items of a specific work item type for the given parent ID.
• wit_link_work_item_to_pull_request: Link a single work item to an existing pull request.
• wit_get_work_item_type: Get a specific work item type.
• wit_get_query: Get a query by its ID or path.
• wit_get_query_results_by_id: Retrieve the results of a work item query given the query ID.
• wit_update_work_items_batch: Update work items in batch.
• wit_work_items_link: Link work items together in batch.
• wit_work_item_unlink: Unlink one or many links from a work item.

Deprecated Tools

• wit_add_child_work_item: Replaced by wit_add_child_work_items to allow creating one or more child items per call.
• wit_close_and_link_workitem_duplicates: This tool is no longer needed. Finding and marking duplicates can be done with other tools.

📁 Repositories

• submit_pull_request_vote: Submit your final reviewer vote on a pull request (approve, reject, wait, etc.).

• repo_list_repos_by_project: Retrieve a list of repositories for a given project.

• repo_list_pull_requests_by_repo: Retrieve a list of pull requests for a given repository.

• repo_list_pull_requests_by_project: Retrieve a list of pull requests for a given project ID or name.

• repo_list_branches_by_repo: Retrieve a list of branches for a given repository.

• repo_list_my_branches_by_repo: Retrieve a list of your branches for a given repository ID.

• repo_list_pull_requests_by_commits: List pull requests associated with commits.

• repo_list_pull_request_threads: Retrieve a list of comment threads for a pull request.

• repo_list_pull_request_thread_comments: Retrieve a list of comments in a pull request thread.

• repo_get_repo_by_name_or_id: Get the repository by project and repository name or ID.

• repo_get_branch_by_name: Get a branch by its name.

• repo_get_pull_request_by_id: Get a pull request by its ID.

• repo_create_pull_request: Create a new pull request.

• repo_update_pull_request_status: Update the status of an existing pull request to active or abandoned.

• repo_update_pull_request: Update various fields of an existing pull request (title, description, draft status, target branch).

• repo_update_pull_request_reviewers: Add or remove reviewers for an existing pull request.

• repo_reply_to_comment: Replies to a specific comment on a pull request.

• repo_resolve_comment: Resolves a specific comment thread on a pull request.

• repo_search_commits: Searches for commits.

• repo_create_pull_request_thread: Creates a new comment thread on a pull request.

🛰️ Builds

• build_get_definitions: Retrieve a list of build definitions for a given project.
• build_get_definition_revisions: Retrieve a list of revisions for a specific build definition.
• build_get_builds: Retrieve a list of builds for a given project.
• build_get_log: Retrieve the logs for a specific build.
• build_get_log_by_id: Get a specific build log by log ID.
• build_get_changes: Get the changes associated with a specific build.
• build_run_build: Trigger a new build for a specified definition.
• build_get_status: Fetch the status of a specific build.
• build_update_build_stage: Update the stage of a specific build.

🚀 Releases

• release_get_definitions: Retrieve a list of release definitions for a given project.
• release_get_releases: Retrieve a list of releases for a given project.

🧪 Test Plans

• testplan_create_test_plan: Create a new test plan in the project.
• testplan_create_test_case: Create a new test case work item.
• testplan_add_test_cases_to_suite: Add existing test cases to a test suite.
• testplan_list_test_plans: Retrieve a paginated list of test plans from an Azure DevOps project. Allows filtering for active plans and toggling detailed information.
• testplan_list_test_cases: Get a list of test cases in the test plan.
• testplan_show_test_results_from_build_id: Get a list of test results for a given project and build ID.

🔎 Search

• search_code: Get code search results for a given search text.
• search_wiki: Get wiki search results for a given search text.
• search_workitem: Get work item search results for a given search text.

🔌 Installation & Getting Started

For the best experience, use Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot. See the getting started documentation to use our MCP Server with other tools such as Visual Studio 2022, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Prerequisites

1. Install VS Code or VS Code Insiders
2. Install Node.js 20+
3. Install Azure CLI
4. Open VS Code in an empty folder

🔑 Personal Access Token (PAT) Authentication

You can use a Personal Access Token (PAT) for authentication instead of Azure CLI. To enable PAT authentication, set the following environment variables before starting the MCP server:

AZURE_DEVOPS_AUTH_TYPE = "pat"
AZURE_DEVOPS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN = "<your-pat-token>"

If AZURE_DEVOPS_AUTH_TYPE is set to pat, the server will use the PAT for authentication. Otherwise, it will use Azure CLI or other Azure Identity credentials.

Azure Login

If you are not using PAT authentication, ensure you are logged in to Azure DevOps via the Azure CLI:

az login

Installation

✨ One-Click Install

After installation, select GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and refresh the tools list. Learn more about Agent Mode in the VS Code Documentation.

🧨 Install from Public Feed (Recommended)

This installation method is the easiest for all users of Visual Studio Code.

🎥 Watch this quick start video to get up and running in under two minutes!

Steps

In your project, add a .vscode\mcp.json file with the following content:

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "id": "ado_org",
      "type": "promptString",
      "description": "Azure DevOps organization name  (e.g. 'contoso')"
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "ado": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@azure-devops/mcp", "${input:ado_org}"]
    }
  }
}

Save the file, then click 'Start'.

<img src="./docs/media/start-mcp-server.gif" alt="start mcp server" width="250"/>

In chat, switch to Agent Mode.

Click "Select Tools" and choose the available tools.

<img src="./docs/media/configure-mcp-server-tools.gif" alt="configure mcp server tools" width="300"/>

Open GitHub Copilot Chat and try a prompt like List ADO projects.

💥 We strongly recommend creating a .github\copilot-instructions.md in your project and copying the contents from this copilot-instructions.md file. This will enhance your experience using the Azure DevOps MCP Server with GitHub Copilot Chat.

See the getting started documentation to use our MCP Server with other tools such as Visual Studio 2022, Claude Code, and Cursor.

📝 Troubleshooting

See the Troubleshooting guide for help with common issues and logging.

🎩 Examples & Best Practices

Explore example prompts in our Examples documentation.

For best practices and tips to enhance your experience with the MCP Server, refer to the How-To guide.

🙋‍♀️ Frequently Asked Questions

For answers to common questions about the Azure DevOps MCP Server, see the Frequently Asked Questions.

📌 Contributing

We welcome contributions! During preview, please file issues for bugs, enhancements, or documentation improvements.

See our Contributions Guide for:

• 🛠️ Development setup
• ✨ Adding new tools
• 📝 Code style & testing
• 🔄 Pull request process

🤝 Code of Conduct

This project follows the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For questions, see the FAQ or contact open@microsoft.com.

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License

Licensed under the MIT License.

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