Azure DevOps
Learn the basic patterns for using the REST APIs for Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Azure DevOps the way a machine reads it — 73 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure DevOps scores 66.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 65/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Azure DevOps
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure DevOps. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Azure DevOps Git Repositories API
The Azure DevOps Git Repositories API provides REST endpoints for managing Git repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, and code reviews. APIs enable automation of reposi...
Azure DevOps Artifacts API
The Azure DevOps Artifacts API provides REST endpoints for managing package feeds including NuGet, npm, Maven, Python, and Universal Packages. APIs support feed creation, packag...
Azure DevOps Test Plans API
The Azure DevOps Test Plans API provides REST endpoints for managing test plans, test suites, test cases, and test runs. APIs support automated test management, test result repo...
Azure DevOps Release API
The Azure DevOps Release API provides REST endpoints for managing release pipelines, deployments, and environments. APIs support release definition management, deployment approv...
Azure DevOps Fields API
Work item field definitions
Azure DevOps Pipelines API
Pipeline definition management
Azure DevOps Queries API
Work item query execution
Azure DevOps Runs API
Pipeline run execution and monitoring
Azure DevOps WorkItems API
Work item CRUD and management
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Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Azure DevOps Pipelines API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure DevOps Work Item Tracking API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Azure Devops Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Azure Devops Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Work Item Tracking
Create, update, query, and manage work items across Azure Boards
CI/CD Pipelines
Build, test, and deploy with YAML-based and classic pipelines
Git Repositories
Host and manage Git repositories with branch policies and pull requests
Artifacts
Package management for NuGet, npm, Maven, Python, and Universal Packages
Test Plans
Comprehensive test management with automated and manual testing
Release Management
Multi-stage deployment pipelines with approval workflows
Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Azure DevOps Service Hooks (Webhooks)
Azure DevOps Service Hooks deliver event notifications for work item changes, build completions, pull request events, code pushes, and release deployments. Service hooks are con...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 3
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Azure Devops Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 12
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
CreatePipelineRequest
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAPipelineRun
JSON SCHEMAPipeline
JSON SCHEMARunPipelineRequest
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAJsonPatchOperation
JSON SCHEMAWiqlResult
JSON SCHEMAWorkItemField
JSON SCHEMAWorkItemRelation
JSON SCHEMAWorkItem
JSON SCHEMAAzure DevOps Work Item
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JSON Structure 11
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Azure Devops Pipelines Create Pipeline Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Pipelines Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Pipelines Pipeline Run Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Pipelines Pipeline Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Pipelines Run Pipeline Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Json Patch Operation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Wiql Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Work Item Field Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Work Item Relation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Devops Work Items Work Item Structure
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Examples 11
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 3
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Agile Project Management
Track work items, sprints, and backlogs for Agile development teams
CI/CD Automation
Automate build, test, and deployment workflows across environments
Code Review
Enforce branch policies and manage pull request workflows
Integrations 3
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
GitHub
Import repositories and trigger pipelines from GitHub events
Slack
Notifications for pipeline runs and work item updates
Jira
Bidirectional sync of work items with Jira issues
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure DevOps — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 17
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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