SmartGenie AI

Publisher: MessageToBala · Azure DevOps inside VS Code & Cursor

SmartGenie AI connects your editor to Azure DevOps so you can see tasks, update work items, run standups, search backlog in plain English, and send implementation prompts to Cursor, Copilot, or Claude — without leaving the IDE.

Publisher & support

Questions, feedback, or support — email or WhatsApp anytime.

All features

Connection & workspace

• Connect to Azure DevOps with organization URL + Personal Access Token (PAT)
• Step-by-step connect wizard with How to get PAT button
• Onboarding guide on Dashboard when not connected
• Per-workspace-folder connection (different folders → different orgs)
• PAT stored in VS Code Secret Storage (encrypted)
• Clear error messages listing required PAT scopes

Developer Workboard (Dashboard)

• Live work summary: overdue, due today, done today, in progress, blocked, on hold
• Clickable stat tiles — click any count to filter the list below
• Remembers your last selected filter across sessions
• Work Now split view: overdue (left) + due today (right)
• Filter chips: High Priority, Stale, This Week, All Pending
• Sprint progress charts — click bars to filter by type, state, sprint
• Your Day at a Glance — today / tomorrow strips
• Quick actions: open details, change state, copy standup, copy commit message
• Refresh all panels from sidebar title bar

SmartGenie AI assistant (on Dashboard)

• Recommended next task — scored by overdue, priority, due date, in-progress state
• Git context — current branch + linked work item ID from branch name
• Real-time alerts — done today, overdue, stale, in progress (click to filter)
• Standup preview — yesterday, done today, today open, blockers, in progress
• Copy Standup Summary to clipboard for daily meetings
• Focus mismatch warning when branch task ≠ recommended task

My Tasks

• Sidebar tree — all active tasks assigned to you
• Click task → open full details
• Right-click → open details or change state
• My Tasks panel — scrollable list with select + open
• Refresh after connect, state change, or manual refresh

Task Search Bot

• Natural language search across backlog and tasks
• Example: printer integration on backlog, my blocked tasks
• Searches title, description, and tags in Azure DevOps
• Understands backlog, assigned-to-me, blocked, in-progress intents
• Ranked results with match reasons
• Click any result → open work item details
• Quick-try example chips on the search page

Query & Search

• Advanced filters loaded from your org: project, area, sprint, state, type
• Title search, due date range
• Assigned to me + active only toggles
• WIQL-backed search with result list
• Open any result in work item details

Work item details

• View and edit state, assignee, description
• Acceptance criteria from Azure DevOps (read-only)
• Discussion comments — add new comments to the work item
• Org-valid state transitions only
• Open work item in Azure DevOps browser
• Copy AB# commit message (AB#123 - title)
• Activity audit comments on saves (attributed to SmartGenie AI)

AI implementation (task → code)

• Open in AI Agent — builds prompt from description + acceptance criteria + workspace folder
• Copy AI Prompt — same prompt to clipboard
• Auto-detects: Cursor Composer, GitHub Copilot Chat, VS Code Chat, Continue, Cline (Claude)
• Suggested branch name and commit message in the prompt
• Setting to choose preferred AI agent

Time logging

• Prompt for hours when changing work item status
• Writes to Azure DevOps Completed Work / Remaining Work
• Settings: enable/disable, required vs optional, complete-only mode
• Graceful fallback when work item type does not support scheduling fields

Git workflow

• Optional branch creation when moving to active/in-progress state
• Configurable branch pattern (feature/{id}-{title})
• AB# commit message helper
• Open work item from git branch name (AB#123 in branch)

Sidebar menu

• One-click access: Dashboard, My Tasks, Task Search Bot, Query & Search
• Connect, How to get PAT, Refresh
• First-time setup checklist when not connected

Screenshots

Developer Workboard — SmartGenie AI panel

Recommended next task, git branch context, real-time alerts, and standup preview.

Work Now — overdue & due today

Click stat tiles to filter. Split list shows overdue tasks on the left and due today on the right.

Task Search Bot

Ask in plain English to find backlog items (e.g. printer integration, payment API, blocked tasks).

Query & Search

Org-driven filters: project, area, sprint, state, type, title, and due dates.

Work item details — Open in AI Agent

Send a coding prompt built from task description, acceptance criteria, and your open code folder to Cursor, Copilot, or Claude.

Connect in 3 steps

1. Open a project folder (File → Open Folder)
2. Create a PAT at https://dev.azure.com/YourOrg/_usersSettings/tokens
   Scopes: Work Items (Read & write), Project and Team (Read), Member Entitlement (Read)
3. Click Connect Azure DevOps → enter org URL, PAT, and project name (e.g. MyProject)

Settings (Settings → SmartGenie AI)

Commands

Requirements

• VS Code 1.85+ or Cursor
• Azure DevOps organization + PAT
• Git extension (built-in) for branch features

Privacy

• Credentials stay on your machine (Secret Storage)
• Data goes only to your Azure DevOps org
• No third-party analytics server

Publisher & contact

Balamurugan · Publisher: MessageToBala

• Email: messagetobalamurugan@gmail.com
• WhatsApp: +91 7538886343
• Marketplace: SmartGenie AI

License

MIT — LICENSE file included in the extension package.