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Azure DevOps MCP server
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Lets your AI look up and update Azure DevOps projects, work items, repos, pull requests and builds.
This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to Azure DevOps, the place where many teams keep their projects, tasks, code and builds. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI in plain English to find a work item, list pull requests, or check which builds failed. It is handy for anyone who spends part of their day in Azure DevOps and wants to skip some clicking around.
What is an MCP server? The 30-second version
On its own, your AI can only chat. It cannot see your Azure DevOps account or do anything inside it. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill, in this case a connection to Azure DevOps. You ask a question in the chat, the AI passes it to this helper, and the helper talks to Azure DevOps for you.
What this MCP server does
You type a request in your AI chat, like asking for active pull requests in a certain repo. The AI sends that request to this helper program running on your computer. The helper logs in to Azure DevOps with your details and fetches or changes what you asked for. Then it sends the answer back, and the AI shows it to you in the chat as a list or a short summary. If you ask it to create something, like a work item, it does that too, as long as you turned on the right permission level.
Click to zoomWhat you can do with it
- List projects, teams and team members
- Query and read work items, including sprints
- Create and update work items like bugs or tasks
- List repositories, branches and pull requests
- Open a new pull request
- List pipelines and recent builds, and queue a run
- Create or delete a project (only in admin mode, with extra safety checks)
Try asking your AI
- “List active pull requests in the Payments project's api repo”
- “Query work items assigned to me that are still Active”
- “Show the last 10 builds in the Web project and which failed”
- “Create a Bug in Payments titled Checkout 500 on retry”
What it gives back to you
You get answers right in the chat: lists of projects, work items, pull requests or builds, and short summaries of what was found. When you ask it to create or update something, it tells you what it changed. For example, after creating a work item it will show you the new item's ID and title.
Before you start
What you need
- An Azure DevOps account and the web address of your organization (looks like https://dev.azure.com/your-org)
- A personal access token (a kind of password for apps; you create one in Azure DevOps settings)
- Node.js installed on your computer (the free runtime that runs this helper)
- An MCP-capable AI client, like Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor
Good to know
In read-write or admin mode this helper can create, change or even delete things in your Azure DevOps account, so start in read-only mode and only raise the level when you really need it.
Install it with your AI
Add Azure DevOps MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed
You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.
Sign in to get the install prompt
Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Azure DevOps MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.
Who it's for
People who work with Azure DevOps every day, like developers, testers, project managers and team leads, and who want to ask their AI instead of clicking through the web interface.
