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Azure DevOps ACTION

Add Work Item Comment

Add a comment to a work item's discussion thread. Returns the new comment's id and rendered text. Use this to post automated status back to the item humans are watching, rather than editing its description. Example: work item 299, comment Deployed to staging in build 4821. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Azure DevOps account once, then configure and run Add Work Item Comment from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "azure_devops-add-work-item-comment",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    azure_devops: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    organization: "Organization",
    project: "Project",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Add Work Item Comment inputs
Property Type Description
organization Organization string
Name of the organization
Required Dynamic
project Project string
Project ID or project name. Run the List Projects action first to obtain valid values.
Required
workItemId Work Item ID integer
Numeric ID of the work item. Run the Query Work Items (WIQL) action first to obtain valid values.
Required
text Comment string
Text of the comment. HTML is supported.
Required

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
azure_devops-add-work-item-comment
Version
0.0.2
App
Azure DevOps
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes