Azure Boards — app with sync | OpenAI Help Center

Overview

The Azure DevOps app with sync lets ChatGPT securely access your team’s Azure DevOps projects and teams, work items and comments to answer questions. You can connect, disconnect, or update the connection at any time. Once enabled, ChatGPT will automatically reference content in Azure DevOps when relevant.

Type: app with sync

Where you can use it: chat, deep research

Learn more about connecting a new app.

Example prompts

“List Azure DevOps work items assigned to me due this week”
“Summarize comments on bugs in Sprint 10”
“Find work items tagged 'blocked' across projects”

Learn more about app use cases and prompts.

Capabilities and permissions

What it can access

Projects and teams

Accessing Items below require sync to be enabled:

Work items (user stories, tasks, bugs) and comments
Areas, iterations, states, tags
Attachment metadata (names, links)

Not indexed

Large binary attachments (e.g., videos), embedded media, and unsupported file types
Items outside your permission scope
System-generated or ephemeral metadata not exposed via the API

Permissions (scope)

vso.profile
vso.project
vso.work
offline_access

Known limitations

Initial sync time depends on data volume (minutes to hours)
API rate limits and provider throttling may delay syncs
Permission or configuration changes are applied on the next sync cycle
Some attachment binaries or non-text content may be excluded
If you have multiple Azure domains configured, ChatGPT picks the first domain for the connection.

Azure Boards — app with sync