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Azure DevOps

Learn the basic patterns for using the REST APIs for Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 66.0/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 15.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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).

MCP 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 SERVER

Pricing 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

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Features 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...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic 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

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Azure Devops Pipelines Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Azure Devops Work Items Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Azure DevOps API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Azure DevOps API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Azure DevOps API Rules

16 rules · 8 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

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

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PipelineRun

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipeline

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RunPipelineRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JsonPatchOperation

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WiqlResult

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorkItemField

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorkItemRelation

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorkItem

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure DevOps Work Item

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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.

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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.

Azure Devops Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Azure Devops Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Azure Devops Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Azure Devops Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Azure Devops Agentic Access

12 operations · 5 acting

12 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

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

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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