Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with scripts and can work on many different chat services.

Visual Studio Team Services integration

Hubot integration helps improve productivity by making it simple to create work items, queue a build, recall what you last worked on, and more - all from within a Visual Studio Team Services team room. For example, create a bug by typing "hubot vso create bug Error in latest service code" or assign a work item with the command "hubot vso assign 123 to Sally". And with an extensible infrastructure, you can extend what your Hubot service can do by adding community or custom built scripts. Get started today by setting up your own Hubot service that you can connect to your Team Rooms.

• Create and assign work items with a few keystrokes
• Quickly see what you accomplished today and what's assigned to you
• Run Visual Studio Team Services commands from other popular tools like HipChat and Campfire
• Extensible architecture supports custom commands to suit your business needs

Quick steps to get started

Integrating Hubot and Visual Studio Team Services takes a couple more steps than our usual integrations but at the end is all worth it. After all you get your own personal robot.

1. If you don't already have your own Hubot instance, set one up. A good way to do that is to deploy Hubot to an Azure web site.
2. Create an Azure web site enabled for local Git deployment.
3. Create your own Hubot instance locally by cloning Hubot.
4. Add the Visual Studio Team Services adapter for Hubot.
5. Add the Visual Studio Team Services scripts for Hubot.
6. Push your configured Hubot instance to your web site.
7. Set the necessary configuration parameters on your site, including HUBOT_ADAPTER=vsonline, and start it.
8. Create a service hook subscription in your Visual Studio Team Services project that sends messages from a team room to your Hubot instance.

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