Azure Boards Extension for Visual Studio Code

A community fork of the Microsoft Azure Boards VS Code extension, modernized to use pnpm, GitHub Actions, and VS Code's built-in SecretStorage API for secure PAT authentication.

This extension provides easy access to your Azure Boards work items directly from Visual Studio Code. See work assigned to you, recent activity, mentions, and items you follow. Open a work item for context, and with one click insert a work item mention into your commit message.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio Code 1.85.0 or later
• An Azure DevOps Services organization
• A Personal Access Token (PAT) with Work Items (Read) and Project and Team (Read) scopes

Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server are not supported.

Installation

From a packaged VSIX

1. Download the latest azure-boards-*.vsix from the Releases page.
2. In VS Code, open the Command Palette (F1) → Extensions: Install from VSIX… and select the file.

Build from source

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Authentication

This fork uses Personal Access Tokens (PAT) instead of the old device-flow OAuth.

1. Create a PAT in Azure DevOps with the following scopes:
   • Work Items → Read
   • Project and Team → Read
2. In VS Code, run Azure Boards: Connect to an organization from the Command Palette.
3. Enter your organization URL (e.g. https://dev.azure.com/myorg) and paste your PAT when prompted.

Tokens are stored securely using VS Code's built-in SecretStorage (backed by the OS keychain).

Mentioning work items in a commit message

Click the mention icon on a work item to automatically add the reference to the Source Control commit message input.

Commands

Issues and feature requests

Please open an issue on this fork's repository.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This extension is licensed under the MIT License. Please see the third-party notices file for additional copyright notices and license terms applicable to portions of the software.