DevOpsLens: AI PR Summaries & Release Notes

Stop writing pull request descriptions and release notes by hand. DevOpsLens adds two tabs to Azure DevOps:

• AI Summary on every pull request: what changed, why, and what could go wrong.
• Release Notes on every pipeline run: commits and work items sorted into features, bug fixes and breaking changes.

A built-in Commit Validator flags commit messages that break your format or point to the wrong work item.

Features

AI Summary (pull request tab)

• One-click summary in English or Arabic (العربية), with right-to-left layout.
• High-level overview a project manager can read in ten seconds.
• Changes grouped into New Features, Refactored Code, Risks and Breaking Changes, and Database/Config updates.
• Risk checks: hard-coded secrets, destructive SQL, removed public APIs, empty catch blocks, leftover debug code.
• Smart recommendations: missing work item link, missing unit tests, oversized pull requests.
• Insert to Overview writes the summary into the pull request description. Running it again updates the same block.

Release Notes (pipeline run tab)

• Pulls commits and work items attached to the build.
• Sorts them into Features, Bug Fixes, Breaking Changes and Other.
• Copy as Markdown or download a .md file.

Commit Validator

• Checks the subject against a pattern you control (Conventional Commits by default).
• Requires a work item reference (#123 or AB#123) and confirms it exists in Azure Boards.
• Warns when a commit references a work item that is not linked to the pull request.

How the summary is produced

By default DevOpsLens analyzes changes with built-in rules inside your browser. No code leaves Azure DevOps. Optionally, you can connect your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint (including Azure OpenAI) in Settings to get written summaries from a language model.

Permissions

• Code (read): read changed files and commits.
• Code (write): only used when you select Insert to Overview.
• Work items (read): read linked work items.
• Build (read): read commits and work items of a pipeline run.

Get started

1. Install the extension in your organization.
2. Open any pull request and select the AI Summary tab.
3. Select Generate AI Summary.

Policies and support

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• License
• Support policy
• Q&A and reviews policy

Questions go in the Q&A tab of this Marketplace page. Bugs and feature requests go to our issue tracker.

بالعربية

إضافة DevOpsLens تُنشئ ملخصاً لطلبات السحب بنقرة واحدة بالعربية أو الإنجليزية، وتولّد ملاحظات الإصدار من الـ Commits والـ Work Items، وتفحص رسائل الـ Commits. التحليل الافتراضي يتم داخل المتصفح ولا يُرسل أي كود خارج Azure DevOps.