Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides developer services for support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications.

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Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

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API Evangelist profiles Azure DevOps the way a machine reads it — 209 machine-readable artifacts across 62 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 71.7/100 (exemplar), 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.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 71.7/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 20.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13

Governance 7.3 / 12

Discoverability 8.0 / 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 62

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 Graph API

API for managing users, groups, and memberships within an Azure DevOps organization. Enables programmatic administration of identities and group membership.

Azure DevOps Core API

API for managing Azure DevOps projects, teams, and team members. Provides foundational access to the organizational structure of an Azure DevOps organization.

Azure DevOps Security API

API for managing security namespaces, access control lists, and access control entries in Azure DevOps. Used to programmatically set and evaluate permissions on resources.

Azure DevOps Notifications API

API for managing notification subscriptions for users and teams. Enables programmatic creation and management of email and other notification channels for Azure DevOps events su...

Azure DevOps Audit API

API for querying and downloading the Azure DevOps audit log. Provides access to auditable events within an organization for security reviews and compliance reporting.

Azure DevOps Search API

API for searching code, work items, and wiki pages across all projects and repositories within an Azure DevOps organization. Supports full-text and filtered search results.

Azure DevOps Policy API

API for managing code policy configurations and policy types in Azure Repos. Used to define and enforce branch policies such as required reviewers, status checks, and merge stra...

Azure DevOps Distributed Task API

API for managing the pipeline agent infrastructure including agent pools, queues, agents, environments, deployment groups, and task groups. Provides programmatic control over th...

Azure DevOps Analytics OData API

OData-based API providing access to the Azure DevOps Analytics service for reporting and querying historical and real-time project data. Supports queries across work items, pipe...

Azure DevOps Extension Management API

API for managing extensions installed in an Azure DevOps organization. Enables programmatic listing, installing, updating, and removing of Marketplace extensions, as well as rea...

Azure DevOps Service Endpoint API

API for managing service connections that connect Azure DevOps pipelines to external services such as GitHub, Docker, Azure, and other third-party providers. Supports creating, ...

Azure DevOps TFVC API

API for accessing Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repositories within Azure DevOps. Provides programmatic access to TFVC items, changesets, shelvesets, labels, and branch...

Azure DevOps Token Administration API

API for organization administrators to retrieve and revoke OAuth authorizations including personal access tokens and session tokens for users in their organizations. Enables cen...

Azure DevOps Accounts API

API for listing the Azure DevOps organizations that the authenticated user has access to. Each person using Azure DevOps Services has access to one or more organization accounts.

Azure DevOps Approvals and Checks API

API for managing pipeline approvals and checks on resources such as environments, service connections, agent pools, variable groups, and secure files. Enables programmatic creat...

Azure DevOps Artifacts Package Types API

API for managing specific package types within Azure Artifacts feeds including NuGet, npm, Maven, Python, and Universal Packages. Provides package-type-specific operations beyon...

Azure DevOps Dashboard API

API for creating and managing team dashboards and widgets in Azure DevOps. Each team can have one or more dashboards, and each dashboard contains a set of configurable widgets w...

Azure DevOps Favorites API

API for managing user favorites in Azure DevOps. Enables programmatic creation, retrieval, and deletion of favorite items such as queries, builds, repositories, and other artifa...

Azure DevOps Identities API

API for finding legacy identity descriptors for users and groups in Azure DevOps. Identities can be searched by name, email, ID, identity descriptor, and subject descriptor. Leg...

Azure DevOps Member Entitlement Management API

API for managing member entitlements in Azure DevOps organizations. A member is a user or group added to an account. Enables programmatic management of licenses, extensions, and...

Azure DevOps Permissions Report API

API for generating and downloading permissions reports that help administrators determine the effective permissions of users and groups on securable resources in Azure DevOps. R...

Azure DevOps Profile API

API for retrieving the authenticated user's profile information in Azure DevOps. Each person using Azure DevOps Services has a profile containing their identity and preference d...

Azure DevOps Security Roles API

API for managing security role definitions and role assignments on Azure DevOps resources. Enables listing role definitions, assigning roles to identities on specific resources,...

Azure DevOps Status API

API for querying the health and status of Azure DevOps services. Provides the ability to query status information for Azure DevOps all-up, or scoped to a specific service and ge...

Azure DevOps Symbol API

API for working with the Azure DevOps managed Symbol Service. Supports creating and managing symbol requests, updating debug entries, querying symbols via the Microsoft SymSrv p...

Azure DevOps Test Plan API

API for managing modern test plans, test suites, test cases, test points, and test configurations in Azure DevOps. Provides programmatic access to test plan management operation...

Azure DevOps Test Results API

API for managing test results, code coverage data, test run logs, and test result metrics in Azure DevOps. Supports publishing test result documents, querying results by build o...

Azure DevOps Token Lifecycle Management API

API for users to manage the lifecycle of their own personal access tokens (PATs) in Azure DevOps. Supports creating, listing, updating, and revoking PATs programmatically. Requi...

Azure DevOps Work API

API for managing board configurations, team settings, iterations, capacities, and process configuration in Azure Boards. Provides programmatic access to board columns, rows, car...

Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking Process API

API for managing work item tracking process customizations in Azure DevOps. Enables programmatic management of inherited processes, work item types, fields, states, rules, behav...

Azure DevOps Attachments API

Operations for work item attachments

Azure DevOps Build Artifacts API

Operations for accessing build artifacts

Azure DevOps Build Definitions API

Operations for managing build pipeline definitions

Azure DevOps Build Logs API

Operations for accessing build logs and timelines

Azure DevOps Builds API

Operations for managing and queuing builds

Azure DevOps Comments API

Operations for work item comments

Azure DevOps Commits API

Operations for accessing commits and commit history

Azure DevOps Consumers API

Operations for listing consumers (webhook, service bus, etc.)

Azure DevOps Deployments API

Operations for managing and monitoring deployments to environments

Azure DevOps Feeds API

Operations for managing artifact feeds

Azure DevOps Notifications API

Operations for sending test notifications

Azure DevOps Package Versions API

Operations for managing specific package versions

Azure DevOps Packages API

Operations for listing and managing packages within feeds

Azure DevOps Pipeline Artifacts API

Operations for accessing artifacts from pipeline runs

Azure DevOps Pipeline Runs API

Operations for triggering and monitoring pipeline runs

Azure DevOps Pipelines API

Operations for managing pipeline definitions

Azure DevOps Publishers API

Operations for listing event publishers and their event types

Azure DevOps Pull Requests API

Operations for creating and managing pull requests

Azure DevOps Pushes API

Operations for managing pushes and commits

Azure DevOps Refs API

Operations for managing branches and tags (refs)

Azure DevOps Release Definitions API

Operations for managing release pipeline definitions

Azure DevOps Releases API

Operations for managing release instances

Azure DevOps Repositories API

Operations for managing Git repositories

Azure DevOps Subscriptions API

Operations for managing service hook subscriptions

Azure DevOps Test Cases API

Operations for managing test cases within test suites

Azure DevOps Test Plans API

Operations for managing test plans

Azure DevOps Test Suites API

Operations for managing test suites within test plans

Azure DevOps Wiki Pages API

Operations for managing wiki page content

Azure DevOps Wikis API

Operations for managing wiki instances

Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking API

Operations for querying and tracking work items using WIQL

Azure DevOps Work Item Types API

Operations for work item type definitions and fields

Azure DevOps Work Items API

Operations for managing work items (Bugs, Tasks, User Stories, etc.)

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Postman Collections 9

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Open Collections 9

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.

Azure DevOps Create, Update, and Comment on a Work Item

Create a work item, transition its state, and append a comment in one flow.

ARAZZO

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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.

Microsoft Azure Devops Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

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.

Microsoft Azure Devops Rate Limits

3 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.

Microsoft Azure Devops Finops

FINOPS

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 AsyncAPI

AsyncAPI specification for Azure DevOps Service Hooks (webhooks and event subscriptions). Azure DevOps delivers event notifications via HTTP POST requests to subscriber endpoint...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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 · 15 properties

JSON-LD

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorkItemTypeFieldInstance

6 fields

EXAMPLE

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 20

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Versioning

JSONLD

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Build 9

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

Client Libraries

Extensions

CLI

Samples

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

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Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

StatusPage

Support

Community

StackOverflow

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Marketplace

Marketplace

Best Practices

Best Practices

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Azure DevOps

APIs 62

Postman Collections 9

Open Collections 9

Arazzo Workflows 18

MCP Servers 1

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Event Specifications 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2

JSON Schema 80