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Azure Boards MCP Server

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Azure Boards MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 233 installs a week from npm. Last commit 25 Jun 2026.

Azure DevOps Boards work items over MCP (stdio). Requires Bun, org, project, and PAT.

Installs per day peak 61 · avg 25 · -1% w/w
a month agotoday
233
Installs / week
npm · azure-board-mcp
0
Stars
0 open issues
25 Jun 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 22 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command src/auth.ts:470
  spawn(cmd, args, { detached: true, stdio: "ignore" }).unref();

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add azure-mcp -- npx -y azure-board-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "azure-board-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.azure-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "azure-board-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "azure-board-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "azure-board-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: AZURE_ORG (Azure DevOps organization name), AZURE_PROJECT (Azure DevOps project name), AZURE_PAT (Personal access token (Work Items: Read & Write)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Azure Boards MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Azure Boards MCP?
Azure Boards MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package azure-board-mcp was installed 233 times last week.
How do I connect Azure Boards MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls azure-board-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Azure Boards MCP?
The npm package azure-board-mcp was installed 233 times in the last week. Week over week that is -1%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Azure Boards MCP open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.