HVE Core - Azure DevOps Integration

Azure DevOps work item management, build monitoring, and pull request creation

Manage Azure DevOps work items, monitor builds, create pull requests, and convert requirements documents into structured work item hierarchies — all from within VS Code.

This collection includes agents and prompts for:

Work Item Management — Discover, create, update, and plan work items across ADO projects
Build Monitoring — Query build status, review logs, and diagnose failures
Pull Request Creation — Generate PRs with linked work items and reviewer identification
PRD-to-Work-Item Conversion — Transform Product Requirements Documents into ADO feature/user-story/task hierarchies

Included Artifacts

Chat Agents

Name	Description
ado-prd-to-wit	Product Manager expert for analyzing PRDs and planning Azure DevOps work item hierarchies

Prompts

Name	Description
ado-create-pull-request	Generate pull request description, discover related work items, identify reviewers, and create Azure DevOps pull request with all linkages.
ado-get-build-info	Retrieve Azure DevOps build information for a Pull Request or specific Build Number.
ado-get-my-work-items	Retrieve user's current Azure DevOps work items and organize them into planning file definitions
ado-process-my-work-items-for-task-planning	Process retrieved work items for task planning and generate task-planning-logs.md handoff file
ado-update-wit-items	Prompt to update work items based on planning files

Instructions

Name	Description
ado/ado-create-pull-request	Required protocol for creating Azure DevOps pull requests with work item discovery, reviewer identification, and automated linking.
ado/ado-get-build-info	Required instructions for anything related to Azure Devops or ado build information including status, logs, or details from provided pullrequest (PR), build Id, or branch name.
ado/ado-update-wit-items	Work item creation and update protocol using MCP ADO tools with handoff tracking
ado/ado-wit-discovery	Protocol for discovering Azure DevOps work items via user assignment or artifact analysis with planning file output
ado/ado-wit-planning	Reference specification for Azure DevOps work item planning files, templates, field definitions, and search protocols
shared/hve-core-location	Important: hve-core is the repository containing this instruction file; Guidance: if a referenced prompt, instructions, agent, or script is missing in the current directory, fall back to this hve-core location by walking up this file's directory tree.

Skills

Name	Description
pr-reference	Generates PR reference XML containing commit history and unified diffs between branches. Includes utilities to list changed files and read diff chunks. Use when creating pull request descriptions, preparing code reviews, analyzing branch changes, discovering work items from diffs, or generating structured diff summaries.

Getting Started

After installing this extension, the chat agents are available in GitHub Copilot Chat:

Use custom agents by selecting the custom agent from the agent picker drop-down list in Copilot Chat
Apply prompts through the Copilot Chat interface
Reference instructions — they are automatically applied based on file patterns

Post-Installation Setup

Some chat agents create workflow artifacts in your project directory. See the installation guide for recommended .gitignore configuration and other setup details.

Pre-release Channel

HVE Core offers two installation channels:

Channel	Description	Maturity Levels
Stable	Production-ready artifacts only	`stable`
Pre-release	Early access to new features and experimental artifacts	`stable`, `preview`, `experimental`

To install the pre-release version, select Install Pre-Release Version from the extension page in VS Code.

Full Edition

Looking for more agents covering additional domains? Check out the full HVE Core extension.

Requirements

VS Code version 1.106.1 or higher
GitHub Copilot extension

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details

Support

For issues, questions, or contributions, visit the GitHub repository.

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